Main responsibilities
The Business analyst senior is a functional specialist working with all stakeholders from his IT Division and aligned Business division to define and document Business needs and software requirements. The BA advises, reports and alerts top optimize and enhance solutions favouring the delivery of value. You will belong to Functional Community with all Business Analysts and Functional Architects.
This will cover the whole cycle from requirement gathering, specifications and testing until the delivery to production including the following responsibilities:
1. Ensure business requirement analysis activities
- Analyse Business requirement based on prioritization given by PO
- Help the PO and the team in decomposing requirements into detailed stories
- Translate requirements into cases into Functional Specification documents
2. Ensure the functional design of the software delivered by the team
- Support functional knowledge of the team with the help of the PO
- Research to determine if solutions currently exist in or outside the team
- Understand technical constraints and participate to the software design
3. Ensure functional quality of the software and Production quality
- Analyze functional change impacts on current production SLA & OLA
- Contribute to the BDD activities by providing users scenarios
- Contribute to the functional testing and functional support activities
- Contribute to deployment via functional pre-requisites, post-deployment checks
4. Support the members of the team in their functional activities
- Train new joiners and team members functionally on the software
- Help team members in solving their functional issues
5. Ensure integration of the software in the IS in sync with the functional architect
This position is a rare opportunity to work with technical and functional subject matter experts of the Financial Industry, be exposed to the latest technologies deployed by the bank and grow your finance and capital markets experience with Summit, a market leading packaged software.
Qualifications and Profile
Mandatory:
- At least 10 years of experience as a business analyst in a financial organization and more specically on Market Data administration domain.
- Relevant experience in FPML format
- Exposure to the Capital Markets with proficiency in financial instruments (Bonds, Rates, Equity, etc..), trading lifecycle and specifically market data.
- Relevant experience with working with external source like Bloomberg, reuters
- Expertise in static market data with knowledge of data types, sources, and uses within financial systems, including reference data, price data.
- Proven experience in technical proficiency with strong skills in SQL, Excel and possibility programming languages like Python or R for data manipulation and analysis. Familiarity with database managemand and querying
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both team mates and management
- Ability to convey clearly and concisely ideas in a concrete and coherent way.
Good to have
- Ability to easily communicate with multi-cultural team members
- Experience in Back Office system (Summit, Calypso) or Front-Office or Market Risk
- Usage of tools such as MS Office / Sharepoint /Project / Visio, Jira, GIT
- Understanding of UML
Other Professional Skills and Mind-set
- Proficient software development life cycle
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Autonomy to include implicit deliverables in assignment based on best practices
- Strong appetite to learn both functional and technical new domain
- Appetite to participate to communities
- Strong sense of confidentiality
Interested applicants, please email your resume to Shaun Quek Yew Meng
Email: [email protected]
CEI Reg No: R1660732
EA Licence No: 99C4599
