IT Business Analyst

Main responsibilities

Main responsibilities of the role:

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

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.

Nice 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.
Ability to speak or understand French
 

Other Professional Skills and Mind-set

Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Proactive style of working.
Strong communication (written, and verbal) and organizational skills.
Ability to multi-task and work independently with minimal supervision.
Team player mindset.
Ability to work under pressure.
Understanding and respect of cultural diversity.