IT Business Analyst

Job Description:

• 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 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.

Report status to project stakeholders:

• Report and escalate key risks, and issues.
• Prepare and maintain the application user guide and operating guide.
• Provide L2/L3 support on 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.

Requirements:

• Minimum 9 years of relevant experience as an IT Business Analyst supporting the development of enterprise-wide complex information systems within major organizations, in a banking environment.
• The simple system integration experience is not enough, actual active participation to the whole SDLC is needed.

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).
• Proficiency in flow diagram definition and design
• Ability to prepare dataset for analysis and validation purposes.

UI/UX experience:

• Proficiency in mock ups definition with Figma.
• Strong experience in working with Microsoft Office tools, JIRA.
• Banking sector domain knowledge.

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of performance testing and associated tools.