Vice President - Lead Business Analyst - Wealth Management Technology

Wealth Management Technology - Lead Business Analyst - Vice President

Job Type; Permanent

Location: Pune

Role Description - Summary:

This is a Techno-Functional Role. Candidate will manage a set of Financial / Banking applications end-to-end. Good grasp on Web and Database technologies is a pre-requisite. Detailed understanding of Wealth Management product suite is required.

Candidate should have a very good knowledge on the Capital Markets flow and trading systems - focused on any two of the following - FX, Fixed Income, Structured Products and Equities - should be able to understand and appreciate traders- views.

Candidate would also be involved to support/test/coordinate functional testing on behalf of users, operations, and testing teams potentially including test plans, test cases, test-data and review of interface testing, between different applications, when required.

Close interaction and relationship building with key stake-holders from both Business and Technology is a must.

Responsibilities & Tasks:

- Single point of contact for Projects/Initiatives allocated, including globally managed projects.

- Demonstrate understanding of business needs & complex business requirements.

- Work with application developers to resolve functional issues from UAT.

- Cross-country interaction and relationship building with specific focus on SG & HK region.

- Defines guiding principles for designing industrialized, high STP business process solutions.

- Reviews and provides feedback on functional solutions.

- Formulate and create Business/Functional specification documentation, in close working with Business, Application Owners and Solution Architects.

- Explores alternative solutions based on business goals & benefits.

- Support/test/coordinate on behalf of users, operations, and testing teams potentially including test plans, test cases, test-data and review of interface testing, between different applications, when required.

- Demonstrates expertise in broader front to back business process. Engineering and solution definition, including aspects outside own area of responsibility.

Experience required:

- Minimum 6 Years- experience in Banking Industry

- Background in Information Technology.

- FinIQ experience would be an added advantage

- Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and proficiency in Project Management tools

- Significant experience in management of complex projects

- Industry, stakeholder and competitor awareness within own area of expertise.

- Exposure in Web & Database Technologies is required

- Good grasp on financial data models/structures & analytical ability

- Profound knowledge of methods and tools for functional specifications.

- Proven communication skills.

- Strong influencing capabilities. Highly capable to manage complexity.

- Ability to shape methodology, processes, policies and procedures.

- Proven leadership of functional teams in matrix organizations.

- Identifies implementation options to cleanly migrate from current state to target state.

- Works closely with PM to manage project scope and report on progress

- Manages own work and supervises others, covering multiple projects.