Position
In a challenging and multicultural environment, we seek for a Senior Trade Finance Business Analyst / Project Manager to join our CCS Department, which stands for “Cash management, and Corporate banking Services”. Our Department is at the heart of many large and deep IT transformation programs of the Bank. The information systems we produce, with budgets in excess of 100ME, have a profound and lasting impact on the company.
The role will focus primarily on leading the definition of the functional design and delivery of various evolutions of Fusion Trade Innovation (TI+) a Finastra’s core banking solution implemented across 26 the company's Entities and UBAF supporting Trade and Commodity Trade Finance operations. Complementary contributing to development and maintenance of TI+. In addition, the candidate will have the role of Delivery Manager or Scrum Master for a team of 5 to 10 resources.
Main responsibilities
As a Senior Business Analyst:
Functional solution design and testing accountability:
- Ensure consistency of functional and non-functional needs, and challenge business requirements.
- Design the functional solution / prepare user stories (or equivalent documents).
- Write the acceptance criteria (following BDD approach).
- Synchronize with others applications BAs for interface design and specification.
- Explain to Development team the requirements / user stories.
- Make sure user stories / sub-tasks progress and status is up to date (related to BA’s activities).
- Prepare list of test scenarios (functional, integration), test data preparation.
- Execute functional testing / user stories testing and integration testing to check that developments are compliant with the needs, contributes to E2E / UAT testing.
- Demo preparation (functional part).
- Preparation of functional documentation for application.
- Support during INT / E2E / UAT.
Delivery Management (Scrum Master) & Project Management:
- Accountability of the team’s work delivery.
- Manage and coordinate daily team activities, organize & facilitate team meetings.
- Manage and organize Backlog (JIRA), making sure all tickets well structured, all required information present, all sub-tasks listed, sprint scope defined, status of ticket / sub-tasks is up-to date, etc.
- Team capacity management and project planning.
- Risks & issues management.
- Project cost estimation and controlling.
- Skills management together with Team Head.
Trade Finance functional referent:
Experience with Finastra Trade Innovation Plus (TI+) solution or equivalent.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all TI+ related inquiries, providing expert guidance to within the team, and towards other stakeholders (Business and Management actors).
- Identify opportunities for improvements on TI+ implementation and customization strategies, as per best practices established by the vendor.
- Conduct training sessions and workshops for other team members and project contributors, enhancing their understanding of the product and its functionalities.
- Oversee and contribute to the rollout of major upgrades and releases of TI+.
- Coordinate with Finastra support team to review the company's cases raised for defects and enhancement requests.
L3 support to maintain TI+ application
- Perform level three support of applications in production.
- Analyze and evaluate the bugs as raised by first and second level support.
- Coordination with support team and technical team to investigate the bugs.
- Specify acceptance criteria for bug fixes.
Qualifications and Profile
The position requires a minimum of 10 years relevant Business Analysis, with at least 3 years of relevant experience as Scrum Master or Project Manager.
Certifications: PMP, agile ACP or CSM, CBAP or equivalent will provide an advantage.
Functional
- Trade Finance domain knowledge.
- Extensive knowledge in requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation, with a proven ability to translate complex business needs into functional specifications.
- Proficiency in business process modeling and workflow design, using tools such as MS Visio, UML diagrams, BPMN.
- Hands-on experience of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) frameworks and practices, with experience using Cucumber, and X-ray tools.
- In-depth knowledge of parameter-driven applications, using message injection such as XML.
- Knowledge of TI+ solution or equivalent.
- Knowledge of Finastra Configuration Management tool (CMT) or equivalent.
- Proven project management skills with experience leading and delivering small to medium projects on time, within budget using delivery methodologies such as Agile (Scrum) or Waterfall.
Technical
- Proficiency in SQL for data query, analysis and update, enabling the delivery of new features and fixes to production.
- Knowledge of message queuing tools (e.g. MQ tool) to mock testing when required.
- Understanding of API integration and web services that may be in scope of end-to-end testing with external systems.
Other Professional Skills and Mindset
- Work on complex systems and a challenging international work environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both teammates and management.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
- Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’ skills.
- Interest in mentoring and guiding junior team members on the path of high quality deliverables.
Next Step
Prepare your updated resume and expected package.
Simply click on 'Apply here' or email to [email protected] to drop your resume
All shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Prasant Sirohi
EA License Number: 91C2918
Registration Number: R22106307
