Lead Functional Business Analyst
Project description
Our Client is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values - Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers. Our Clients Operation division provides software and system development, information technology support services and banking operations. They have centralized and standardized the technology components into Singapore, creating a global footprint which can be utilized for supporting our regional subsidiaries and the branches around the world. We operate and support 19 countries with this architecture to provide a secure and flexible banking infrastructure. Their Operations divisions provide transactional customer services for our businesses while also focusing on cost efficiency through process improvements, automation, and straight-through processing.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Business Unit Specialists to elicit, review, and validate business requirements.
- Analyse and document “to-be” business and operational processes based on agreed requirements and/or function points.
- Define detailed functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Conduct impact assessments and manage risks/issues related to requirements and scope creep.
- Prepare business functional release notes and contribute to deployment planning.
SKILLS
Must have
- Minimum 8-10 years of experience in functional business analysis, with a strong focus on SWIFT and payments systems.
- Domain Payments, Cross-border payments, SWIFT standards.
- Hands-on experience with SQL (for data analysis/validation)
- Strong business domain knowledge in corporate banking and payments.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering/ business/ finance or equivalent.
- Strong quantitative, analytical, problem solving and process design skills that can translate analysis into solutions that meet business objectives
- Understanding of technology and operational processes across functions /departments in the bank/market.
- Familiar with change management processes and project management fundamentals.
- Strategic forward-thinking approach to challenges with outstanding communications, influencing, negotiating and persuasion skills.
- Passionate, diligent and resilient individual with ability to thrive in ambiguity.
- Ability to push initiatives forward and work collaboratively across teams.
Nice to have
• Cross border payments via blockchain network a plus
