Mission:
In this role as an IT Business Analyst, you will work closely with different teams and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that solutions meet user needs. Your responsibilities include gathering and analyzing requirements, managing project tasks, and supporting the development process, from estimating timelines to overseeing user acceptance testing. A key part of your work will involve analyzing and designing data from various sources, using data warehouses to create effective solutions. You'll contribute innovative ideas, foster teamwork, and help create a culture of collaboration and excellence within the team.
Main responsibilities :
· Liaise with project stakeholders (onshore IT teams and business users) in defining detailed functional specifications and clarifications.
. Proactively communicate and collaborate with stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artefacts as needed: detailed functional specifications, use cases, test strategy and test cases.
· Analyze and transform business requirements into solutions with the help of Development teams.
· Prepare, maintain and communicate functional documentation.
· Plan, prepare and execute the qualification strategy and tests of the target solutions.
· Perform System Integration Testing (SIT) before allowing transition to the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase.
· Identify test data required to complete the test activities.
· Steering of the User Acceptance Tests (UAT) and reporting status to project stakeholders.
· Report and escalate key risks and issues related to project execution to the project manager.
· Deliver thoroughly tested products on time, up to production deployment.
· Support the project planning, schedules and milestones in coordination with project teams.
· L3 support, troubleshooting of production incidents.
· Work with large data volumes, analysis and troubleshoot of data anomalies/inconsistencies.
· Legal and Regulatory Responsibilities
-- Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal Compliance requirements, including, but not limited to, the Singapore Compliance manual and Compliance policies and procedures as issued from time to time; Financial Security requirements, including, but not limited to, the prevention of Financial Crime and Fraud including reporting obligations to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer
-- Maintain appropriate knowledge to ensure to be fully qualified to undertake the role. Complete all mandatory training as required to attain and maintain competence
Mandatory Requirements :
. Minimum of 4+ years of relevant experience as an IT Business Analyst supporting the development of enterprise-wide complex information systems within major organizations, ideally in a banking environment.
. Hands-on experience of coordination between the business and IT teams (various locations) and as primary functional support for development teams.
. Strong ability to interpret business needs and translate them into requirements.
. Knowledge in software development life cycle and software testing life cycle.
. Experience in writing test documents and performing functional tests.
. Risk awareness, ability to evaluate and predict risks and drawback of target solution.
. Identify and determine enhancements to improve business processes and to mitigate/reduce risks.
. Proficiency in SQL database queries (complex queries).
. Ability to prepare dataset for analysis and validation purposes.
. Strong experience in working with Microsoft Office tools, JIRA.
Good to Have :
. Knowledge of performance testing and associated tools
. UI/UX experience is a great plus.
. Banking sector domain knowledge: payments, accounting, SWIFT, global markets, accounting, etc.