- Business knowledge across Capital Markets, especially on the Regulatory Reporting
- Experience of working with teams distributed across geographies
- Hands on experience writing functional requirements / user stories
- Establish professional working relationship with IT, FA change & Regulatory teams locally
- Lead in analysis and scoping of data sourcing and functional enhancements, functional/application design, functional specifications, discuss and obtain users agreements
- Perform business analysis activities such as supporting requirements gathering, process mapping and re-engineering, prepare traceability matrix, BRD, and manage other change tools
- Analyze existing and potential operational impacts from the change implemented, ensure risks and issues are well captured and managed.
- Experience in working with an onsite-offsite development team and delivery model
- Ability to build strong working relationships with both IT and Business Partners
- Regulatory/ Financial reporting exposure (HKMA, MAS or other APAC regulators)
- Communicates easily with varying stakeholders in controlled situations
- Bachelor's degree preferred in related field (Tax, Finance, Accounting)
- Good knowledge in Trade Life Cycle in Investment Bank
- Good knowledge and exposure in various trading products
- Previous financial service experience within an regulatory environment (essential)
- Formal Business Analyst qualifications (IIBA preferred)
- 5+ years’ experience defining/refining business requirements on large/complex development projects in an IT environment
- Experience documenting complex business processes and applying this knowledge to use cases, supplemental specifications, process flows, data models, test cases
- Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, listening, presentation, and facilitation
- Experience within a highly regulated field/domain
Good to have:
- Work with members of the Regulatory Operation team globally to define change requirements, identify the benefits, risks and impacts from change programs and develop steps to manage and mitigate them
- Where required, support global regulatory interaction, particularly in relation to requests for information from regulators
- Participate in assessing the effectiveness of the firm's arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas.
