Responsibilities
- Drive and lead analysis & design, solution validation, workshops under assigned domain to ensure consistent and complete requirement and solution coverage.
- Capture the voice of customers in order to scope the changes: Strong analytical and domain management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements. Think outside the box, always consider business needs, and be prepared to challenge the stakeholders. Any solution must be cost-optimum.
- Manage functional & technical designs for new features or adaption.
- Define and bridge the gap between the requirement, solution, development and testing, work with developers regarding the delivery: scope, resources, planning.
- Formalize the business requirements (functional & technical specification): document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions (As-Is and Target workflows), use cases, scenarios.
- Mediate business and technical discussions and in case no agreement can be reached, take the decision by considering technical and economic feasibility, business strategies, architectural guidelines and other constraints.
- Report on the progresses, risks and issues. Escalate to the project manager / delivery manager on a timely manner.
- Act as subject matter expert at specific areas and able to go deep into requirement / solution gaps with support from product architects.
- Acting as the contact person concerning functional questions as well as supporting consulting projects and workshops with customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/Computer Science/Information Technology or related disciplines.
- 10 years of experience in the Financial Technology (Wealth Management, Core Banking), Avaloq preferred.
- Good Knowledge of Financial and Global Market Regulations.
- Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
- Knowledge of Trading, Middle Office, and BackOffice platforms such as Bloomberg, Avaloq, FinIQ, will be beneficial.
- Good stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills: good negotiation and conflicts management skills, able to build momentum / define consensus.
- Structured, organized and results oriented approach, demonstrating a high level of diligence and attention to detail and the ability to ensure high quality and consistency in the deliverables produced.
- Ability to multitask, be flexible and allocate time according to moving priorities.
Good to have
- Client Management knowledge: Static data knowledge, Client Modelling, Client onboarding process, CRM module; OR
- Portfolio Management knowledge: Portfolio Desk, Performance Desk, Investment Policy Statement, Asset Allocation, Benchmark, Model Portfolio, Investment Proposition etc.; OR
- Transactional Modules knowledge:
- Cash Related Transactions (FX, Money Market, OTCs, Payment, Money Transfer etc).
- Investment Related Transactions (Asset Management, Time Series management, Stock Exchange, Settlement, Corporate Actions, Reconciliation etc).
- Credit/Finance (Facility/Financing, Limit, Loan, Guarantee, Other security Financing).
- Cost & fees
- Compliance rules and setup
- Regulatory
OR
- Migration Knowledge: ETL (extract transform load), Static and Dynamic Data Migration, Migration Workflows and Activities, Migration Strategies and Planning, Data Mapping; OR
- Project Management: both waterfall and Agile methodology.
