Regulatory Business Analyst

• 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.