1. Good to have skills (in terms of skills, qualifications, interpersonal, certification soft skills)
• Financial market knowledge
• Experience on software delivery lifecycle (Project Management in tech domain)
• 5-10 years of relevant experience
• Motivated and curious, it’s not a routine job
The job purpose consists of:
• Building strong, effective relationships with both the business and technology teams, across global offices.
• Collaborating with all control functions to gather requirement, solve business problems by proposing relevant, innovative solutions in consultation with the technology teams.
• Being a creative source of proposals and channeling user aspiration towards sustainable and future proof solutions
• Deliver functional consistency across the various projects by influencing architecture and design decisions
• Translating and documenting business requirements
• Working across asset classes FX, Rates, Credit and Commodities (both structured and flow)
Key Roles & Responsibilities
• Understand the user’s requirements and translate into competent future state models, questioning and challenging assumptions and status quo
• Propose relevant solutions and alternatives to meet business needs
• Pro-actively engage, manage and build strong relationships with both business and technology stakeholders
• Translate solutions into detailed, unambiguous, business and functional requirements
• Ensure the overall quality of business requirements, functional specifications and other supporting documents meet the bank’s standards
• Work proactively with fellow BAs and other team members, ensuring work is proportionally distributed and targets are met
• Ensure documents such as functional specs support the development of practical technology solutions and suitable test cases
• Provide on-going support to the technology teams as required e.g. reviewing of test cases, close out open issues/questions, manage change request process etc.
• Assist the business with UAT, including communication, planning, preparation and test case preparation
• Identify risks and issues early, plan mitigating steps and communicate these to PMs and business stakeholders in a timely manner
• Work closely with project and programme managers to ensure stakeholders are fully engaged and expectations managed
• Delivery focused, committing to specific tasks and ensuring these and the overall projects deadlines are met
Qualification & Skills
• Strong understanding of the Business Analysis process is a must.
• Extensive derivatives knowledge across asset classes encompassing product knowledge, pricing, risk analytics and trade life cycle.
• Quantitive finance understanding, ability to liaise with quantative analysts on pricing and risk topics
• Proven ability to work across business streams and have exposure to front to back system implementation.
• Good understanding of key technology concepts, basics in SQL, functional programming and architecture. Strong technical acumen is a big plus.
• Knowledge and experience of Agile development practices would be desirable.
• Knowledge or experience as a Scrum Master would be desirable.
• Ability to work proactively, independently and displays strong initiative.
• Pragmatic team player with an attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to accurately translate and document business needs into functional requirements and produce quality documentation.
• Ability to drive multiple agenda and effectively manage priorities.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with an excellent standard of English are a must.
• Multicultural awareness.
• Displays personal authority, integrity and ethics
