IT Business Analyst

Qualifications and Profile

This position requires a minimum of 4+ years of relevant experience as an IT Business Analyst supporting the development of enterprise-wide complex information systems within major organizations, ideally in a banking environment.

Main responsibilities

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Liaise with project stakeholders (onshore IT teams and business users) in defining detailed functional specifications and clarifications.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artefacts as needed: detailed functional specifications, use cases, test strategy and test cases.
• Analyze and transform business requirements into solutions with the help of Development teams.
• Prepare, maintain and communicate functional documentation.
• Plan, prepare and execute the qualification strategy and tests of the target solutions.
• Perform System Integration Testing (SIT) before allowing transition to the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase.
• Identify test data required to complete the test activities.
• Steering of the User Acceptance Tests (UAT) and reporting status to project stakeholders.
• Report and escalate key risks and issues related to project execution to the project manager.
• Deliver thoroughly tested products on time, up to production deployment.
• Support the project planning, schedules and milestones in coordination with project teams.
• L3 support, troubleshooting of production incidents.
• Work with large data volumes, analysis and troubleshoot of data anomalies/inconsistencies.
• Legal and Regulatory Responsibilities
• Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal Compliance requirements, including, but not limited to, the Singapore Compliance manual and Compliance policies and procedures as issued from time to time; Financial Security requirements, including, but not limited to, the prevention of Financial Crime and Fraud including reporting obligations to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer.
• Maintain appropriate knowledge to ensure to be fully qualified to undertake the role. Complete all mandatory training as required to attain and maintain competence

Mandatory

• Hands-on experience of coordination between the business and IT teams (various locations) and as primary functional support for development teams.
• Strong ability to interpret business needs and translate them into requirements.
• Knowledge in software development life cycle and software testing life cycle.
• Experience in writing test documents and performing functional tests.
• Risk awareness, ability to evaluate and predict risks and drawback of target solution.
• Identify and determine enhancements to improve business processes and to mitigate/reduce risks.
• Proficiency in SQL database queries (complex queries).
• Ability to prepare dataset for analysis and validation purposes.
• Strong experience in working with Microsoft Office tools, JIRA.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of performance testing and associated tools
• UI/UX experience is a great plus.
• Banking sector domain knowledge: payments, accounting, SWIFT, global markets, accounting, etc.
• Ability to speak or understand French

Other Professional Skills and Mind-set

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Proactive style of working.
• Strong communication (written, and verbal) and organizational skills.
• Ability to multi-task and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Team player mindset.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Understanding and respect of cultural diversity.