VP/AVP, Technical Business Analyst (Avaloq), Wealth Management Technology, Group Technology

The role:

As a Business System Analyst, you will be responsible for developing technical solutions to business problems. This usually begins with defining, analysing and documenting the requirements. Managing requirements at the project level can help fulfil business needs. Solutions often include a software-systems development component, but may also consist of process improvement, organizational change or strategic planning and policy development.

The candidate should value simplicity and impact, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and have the ability and desire to learn. Candidate also require having greater flexibility, greater discipline, and the willingness to work in an evolutionary manner.

Responsibilities:

• To help stakeholders define requirements and problem statements, identify dependencies and constraints as well as negotiate priorities between different stakeholder groups
• Bridge the communication between the development team and business stakeholders, by providing the details explaining the requirements from both functional and technical perspective to the development team
• Effectively translate user stories/ pain points into technical specification details and collaborate with various development teams to produce high quality deliverables
• Provide clarity in business requirement to allow developers to provision estimates, and serve to represent stakeholders, to provide business priorities.
• Act as an SME in the respective domain with sufficient knowledge to interact, solicit requirements, and advise business users on the best solutions
• Help develop compelling and innovative solutions while complying with existing standards, guidelines, and processes
• Perform end-to-end technical impact analysis and lead the requirement gathering with business users. Propose alternate solutions to meet or improve the desired objectives based on best practices and industry solutions and influence the desired outcomes
• Verify that the user requirements are achievable and support business users during UAT and post-implementation phases
• Review test cases and help resolve requirement/implementation issues during testing phase
• Conceptualise and perform proof of concept before project inception
• Plan and conduct project inception workshops to establish operational project vision, stakeholders, delivery scope, constraints and conditions

Requirements:

• Excellent business and technical written and verbal communication skills to document and specify requirements to solve business problems
• Ability to facilitate and elicit requirements.
• Significant and solid understanding of software development life cycle.
• At least 5 years of working experience in Avaloq development and/or system design
• At least 5 years of working experience in Avaloq system analysis
• Proven experience of solving complex analytical and technical problems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to simplify and breakdown complex scenarios and problems for analysis
• Strong business domain knowledge on wealth management product offering and process
• Ability to perform technical impact analysis independently and resourceful in finding information required
• Understand technology infrastructure and able to conduct interface analysis to achieve a business goal
• Strong team player and interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Self-starter and motivated

Technical Requirements:

• Ability to perform proof of concept on Avaloq
• Advanced process modelling by creating flow diagrams and models
• UML diagramming
• Proficient with SQL and PL/SQL, Python and/or advanced Excel macros
• Experience with both relational and NoSql database
• Strong knowledge with application programming interface design, documentation and testing
• Proficient with various tools for design, collaboration and issue management as well as agile software and development
• Avaloq certified parameterization specialist
• Knowledge on Tableau or Power BI is a bonus
• Knowledge on Test Master is a bonus
• Technical development background with good command of at least one programming language other than Avaloq is a bonus