Senior Business Analyst

Are you a seasoned business analyst looking for a challenging opportunity in trade finance?

• We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our team, focusing on product development and enhancement in the trade finance domain.

This role involves conceptualizing and driving product development, engaging with business stakeholders to understand their needs, and proposing solutions that meet their requirements. You will be responsible for designing business processes, workflows, and user interfaces, as well as reviewing functional specifications and data mapping templates.

Your expertise in cross-asset class analysis, decision-making, and problem-solving will be essential in this role. Additionally, you will work closely with the delivery and project office, IS teams, and vendors to design optimal solutions within cost, schedules, and quality standards.

• Engage with business managers and end-users to understand requirements
• Elicit requirements, prioritize, and analyze requests, design business processes, workflows, and user interfaces, review of functional specifications and data mapping templates
• Perform specific cross-asset class analysis on in-scope countries to aid decision-making on the most appropriate solution
• Work with Delivery and Project Office as well as other internal IT departments, IS and vendor organizations to design optimal solutions, ensure requirements are transformed into effective solutions, within cost and schedules and quality adhering to the bank's standards, guidelines and policies
• Involve in high-level technical design/implementation discussions and contribute from business perspective
• Prepare / review test scenarios and test cases, support test utility team for SIT, support user for UAT and other related activities to ensure business needs are met
• Ensure gaps in deliverables are identified early and addressed effectively
• Collaborate with Application / Service Owners as the Process Management to manage service
• Provide thought leadership within own area of responsibility and BA profession within the bank
• Provide SME support to extended IT teams such as EDW by articulating requirements
• Provide support to architecture committee and project teams to ensure that target operating models are progressing in line with the preferred strategic architecture / chosen architectures

• At least 10 years of relevant business analysis experience in financial services environment
• Strong IT delivery track record and business knowledge of Trade Finance products including Letter of Credit, Bank Guarantees, Standby Credits, Collections, Trade Financing, Participation Loans, Supply Chain Management, Factoring, Fund Transfers, Forex Payments, Accounting and SWIFT - in a regional, hub environment
• Good cross-product and end-to-end knowledge - impact of trade to loans and limits
• Able to demonstrate end-to-end flow of product and roles and responsibilities from Channels to front office to middle office to back office
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to assimilate information quickly and gain consensus from multiple stakeholders when required
• Good oral and written communication skills, including documentation and presentation skills
• Comfortable communicating across business divisions and levels of seniority
• Strong team player with the ability to take ownership and deliver outcome independently
• Able to work under pressure with tight deadlines and/or multiple projects
• Strong interpersonal skills required to liaise with other subject matter experts to problem solving issues or generating ideas
• Possess initiative, drive and excellent attention to detail
• Understanding of technology and development lifecycle - experience in both SDLC & Agile/SCRUM delivery
• Experience in tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Powerpoint, Excel, SQL

• Competitive base salary
• A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle
• Community initiatives
• Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities
• Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers