Business Analyst - Professional Development Opportunities

BUSINESS ANALYST

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Assist on detail project plan especially on user requirement and functional system related area
• Conduct or facilitate user requirement or functional analysis discussion session
• Analyse requirements and identify user process and data gaps, document and bring up for project team discussion and decision.   Participate in user requirement and system analysis including:
• Understand the relevant “as-is” user/system processes, source to target data models / flow 
• Gap analysis between the new and the “as-is” target system 
• Write complete documentation such as functional document, data mapping document and interface and report specification.  
• Conduct or facilitate the documents’ review sessions and revise/finalize the documents
• Lead role or key member in designing, documenting and supporting of data integration and system processes
• Collaborate with our client, internal development team and external vendor to solve functional issues relating to technical design or limitations and determine the solutions and design together with tech team during the whole project period
• Able to communicate to the technical team (internal or customer) the functionalities / data mapping rules to support their development
• Support SIT and UAT on functional / data mapping related discrepancies or issues
• Track, escalate and follow up the functional outstanding items / issues

REQUIREMENTS

Must Haves:

• Bachelor degree in Computing, IT, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics and or related fields 
• At least 5 years of working experience in IT systems / projects and involved in user requirement analysis, system analysis and system design including document preparation (such as functional specification, data mapping specification, etc.) 
• Good knowledge of basic banking products such as loans, fixed deposit, current and savings account, credit cards and general ledger. 
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications e.g. MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point
• Experience in data integration and transformation
• Experience in banking IT projects, banking regulatory reporting / internal management reporting or finance data warehouse
• Able to work in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment
• Basic skills in SQL
• At least 3 years experience in eliciting requirements and testing
• At least 3 years experience in analyzing data to draw business-relevant conclusions
• Familiarity with ETL process, Informatica and/or PL/SQL is advantageous

• Strong written and verbal English communication skills with external and internal parties

• Self-learning and on the job learning skill is essential

Advantages to Have:
• Perform quality assurance and write data management and alerting requirements

• Experience in expenses allocation for bank/finance organizations

Experience in trade finance, treasury, derivatives, etc is an advantage

• Familiar with various banking channel such as branch activities, ATM, phone banking, internet banking, mobile banking, etc

• Experience with OFSAA preferred but experience with similar tools from other vendor products or similar bank in-house application for Value Based Management calculation will be considered