Business Analyst - BFSI

Overview:

- Finance Change works across the entire CFO division to ensure that we execute the strategic design and implementation of any major changes to our processes and systems.

- In partnership with our key stakeholders, we work to create cutting-edge business solutions using our deep functional expertise. We aim to deliver strategic initiatives using leading project management and business analysis as we pursue our goal of protecting and enhancing shareholder value through optimizing the use of our financial resources.

Responsibilities:

- Use Business Analysis tools and techniques to capture and clearly articulate the as-is business processes, identify problems and inefficiencies and define business requirements for process improvements

- Serve as a liaison with managers of line functions to identify, define and accurately document business requirements following CS best practice

- Manage requirements and maintain requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle to ensure that requirements are delivered as specified, and change impact assessments can be made

- Should transform business requirements into functional and technical specifications

- Communicates clearly with all stakeholders and demonstrates an understanding of business processes and related issues. Develops multiple solutions options and can convey the merits and issues of each to ensure clear understanding of impact across the organization

- Assist in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for integration, functional, performance and user acceptance testing

- Identify, manage and escalate where appropriate project risks and issues associated to requirements gathering, analysis and design

- Design training and support documentation for new projects

- Ensure compliance with established guidelines for accurate and timely project delivery milestones

- Work closely with the Global PC/ FA teams and related Finance Change teams, and be involved in the execution of various initiatives planned as part of the Book of Work

The role provides the candidate with an opportunity:

- To understand the Financial Accounting related accounting and reporting systems and processes in a leading investment bank

- To get global exposure through working on key initiaves with teams around the globe (Singapore - London - New York)

- Experience in stakeholder management and a key liason role between Finance line and IT in deploying and building solutions to time sensitive CFO initiatives

- Long term growth path in Change Management

- To experience a truly multicultural team environment (a highly diverse Finance Change team of ~50)

Required Skills:

- Domain knowledge/ experience of Liquidity/Treasury/Product control/capital markets/financial accounting within investment banking - that is, should have been associated with the finance division of an investment bank in some capacity.

- Change experience in above is preferred, however BAU/ line experience with change exposure is also fine

- If with change experience, it should as a Business Analyst in an SDLC environment (that is, should have acted as a bridge between Finance users and IT in a systems project), and not as a project manager or in a non-SDLC oriented change project

- As a business analyst or as an end user, should have been involved in functional testing and should be willing to be involved in functional testing in this role as well

- A decent understanding of the various investment bank trading products (equities, fixed income, repos, FX, OTC and exchange traded derivatives, loans, money markets etc) and the accounting related to these products is needed