Business Analyst

1. Good to have skills (in terms of skills, qualifications, interpersonal, certification soft skills)

. Financial market knowledge

. Experience on software delivery lifecycle (Project Management in tech domain)

. 5-10 years of relevant experience

. Motivated and curious, it's not a routine job

The job purpose consists of:

. Building strong, effective relationships with both the business and technology teams, across global offices.

. Collaborating with all control functions to gather requirement, solve business problems by proposing relevant, innovative solutions in consultation with the technology teams.

. Being a creative source of proposals and channeling user aspiration towards sustainable and future proof solutions

. Deliver functional consistency across the various projects by influencing architecture and design decisions

. Translating and documenting business requirements

. Working across asset classes FX, Rates, Credit and Commodities (both structured and flow)

Key Roles & Responsibilities

. Understand the user's requirements and translate into competent future state models, questioning and challenging assumptions and status quo

. Propose relevant solutions and alternatives to meet business needs

. Pro-actively engage, manage and build strong relationships with both business and technology stakeholders

. Translate solutions into detailed, unambiguous, business and functional requirements

. Ensure the overall quality of business requirements, functional specifications and other supporting documents meet the bank's standards

. Work proactively with fellow BAs and other team members, ensuring work is proportionally distributed and targets are met

. Ensure documents such as functional specs support the development of practical technology solutions and suitable test cases

. Provide on-going support to the technology teams as required e.g. reviewing of test cases, close out open issues/questions, manage change request process etc.

. Assist the business with UAT, including communication, planning, preparation and test case preparation

. Identify risks and issues early, plan mitigating steps and communicate these to PMs and business stakeholders in a timely manner

. Work closely with project and programme managers to ensure stakeholders are fully engaged and expectations managed

. Delivery focused, committing to specific tasks and ensuring these and the overall projects deadlines are met

Qualification & Skills

. Strong understanding of the Business Analysis process is a must.

. Extensive derivatives knowledge across asset classes encompassing product knowledge, pricing, risk analytics and trade life cycle.

. Quantitive finance understanding, ability to liaise with quantative analysts on pricing and risk topics

. Proven ability to work across business streams and have exposure to front to back system implementation.

. Good understanding of key technology concepts, basics in SQL, functional programming and architecture. Strong technical acumen is a big plus.

. Knowledge and experience of Agile development practices would be desirable.

. Knowledge or experience as a Scrum Master would be desirable.

. Ability to work proactively, independently and displays strong initiative.

. Pragmatic team player with an attention to detail.

. Strong interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills.

. Ability to accurately translate and document business needs into functional requirements and produce quality documentation.

. Ability to drive multiple agenda and effectively manage priorities.

. Strong communication and presentation skills with an excellent standard of English are a must.

. Multicultural awareness.

. Displays personal authority, integrity and ethics