Manager - Business Analyst - BFSI

Manager (BA) in Enterprise is expected to play an overarching role of providing a truly global functional design solution to all Enterprise projects and lead a team of highly specialised SMEs for a strategic functional vision of the platform. He/she will collaborate with end business users, technical teams, and project managers to ensure business requirements are completely understood and implemented in a manner satisfying the immediate business needs as well as alignment with the strategic vision.

The candidate will need to exhibit a high level ownership and also look at continuous improvement opportunities. Prior experience of implementing large warehouse projects and knowledge of fund accounting principles is a must. In addition, the person must be fully conversant with Use Case based requirements documentation and functional design techniques such as ER modelling, state transition, and like. Added preference shall be for an experience working under the Agile execution methodology

Job Requirements

Key Responsibilities

- Understand business change needs, assess the impact of those changes, capture, analyse and document requirements, communicate and deliver those requirements with relevant stakeholders

- Work closely with UK Team in strategic business programmes to define and integrate requirements

- Establish and direct the policies and procedures for requirement management methodology and defining, testing, and installing the deliveries based upon the user-defined business requirements.

- Provides supervision and guidance to the System analysis team

- Prepares job descriptions, identifies staffing needs, provides general direction, assigns specific tasks and responsibilities, evaluates and mentors staff

- Continues professional development through attendance at meetings, professional seminars and conferences

- Identifies needs and allocation of appropriate resources to meet timely completion of specific project tasks

- Continually monitors individual progress to insure meeting of specific deadlines

- Liaise with internal system owners and/or 3rd party providers

- Identify options for potential solutions and assessing them for both technical and business suitability

- Draw up specific proposals for modified or replacement systems

- Work closely with developers to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction

- Contribute in drawing up a testing strategy for the complete system

- Support business in preparation of user test procedures and user acceptance testing

- Provide pre-implementation and post-implementation support to the systems and business teams

Experience and Qualifications

- Total 10-13 years of Experience.

- At least 10 years of relevant business/system analysis experience preferably with a financial services firm and a minimum two years supervising staff in a project management or business analysis role

- Graduation in Commerce/Economics or MBA (Finance) preferred.

- Experience of working with 3rd party financial products such as Eagle

- Experience of documenting requirements and functional system design using Use Cases, State diagrams, ER Modelling etc.

- Exposure to structured software development life-cycle methodology (preferably Agile or Iterative development)

- Experience of working with multi-cultural teams in a geographically diverse environment

- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)