Senior Business Analyst

Contribute to IT initiatives for Antaes Asia clients

As a **Business Analyst **, responsibilities are:

- Use mandatory experience in topics or any of the topic related to Tax Regulatory on any of the following: German Tax, Client Tax Statement Reporting, AEOI/CRS, FATCA, IRS871m in order to advise or challenge requirements given functionally and solution proposition by the Development Team
- Gather the requirements from End Users, Product Owner
- Write DFS (Detailed Functional specifications) / GFS (General Functional specifications) or user stories and confirm the understanding with the developers.
- Work with developers on system design and development/unit testing.
- Work with the testing team to review SIT strategy, test cases and results to ensure quality of delivery and conduct SIT to ensure quality of delivery.
- Support UAT (reproduce issues, monitoring, fixing with the team).
- Support Project delivery and ensure requirements are in-place in Production.
- Assist the Project Manager and/or Development team on any governance, security or architecture related follow-up or deliverables. A technical-functional knowledge is required in order to achieve this.
- Assist stakeholders in diagnosing problems and recognizing issues. Takes time to help them identify critical connections, consequences, and alternatives.
- Recognize typical as well as complex and unusual issues, and actions needed to advance the decision-making process. Recommends possible solutions.

In addition, you are expected to:

- Organize and run dedicated meetings or committees.
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal third parties to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artefacts as needed: GFS, DFS, Business process design, minutes, review and validation with Sponsors, presentation etc.
- Analyze gaps in functionality and processes between European and Asian sites and propose solutions to converge and align them into a common design.
- Be the liaison between the Project Manager (and Business side) and Technology teams.
- Participate to the full development lifecycle including design, estimation, planning, development support, test support, release, implementation & guarantee support.
- Support on Project Manager & Scrum Master activities on need basis.
- Be flexible to take additional responsibilities.
- Contribute to the promotion of Antaes services on top of assistance provided to clients

**Job Requirements**:

- At least Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields
- Experience in working with large distributed IT teams
- At least 8+ years of experience in the banking IT field (Private Banking/Wealth Management)
- At least 5+ years of experience working on Regulatory topics
- Good knowledge on Private banking operations and financial products
- Good understanding of project lifecycle and experience in functional and technical specification
- Highly analytical, able to investigate, troubleshoot and determine issues at root cause
- Mandatory experience on any of the given topics: Tax Regulatory, Performance topics, German Tax reportings, Client Tax Statement Reporting, AEOI/CRS, FATCA, IRS871m
- Knowledge of private banking operations and financial products
- Knowledge on Banking systems (similar to Olympic, TRANSACT, AAA)
- IT experience: general knowledge (SQL), Excel
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in multi-cultural environment
- Good presentation skills to discuss/communicate directly with Europe/Asia business users
- Must be able to work and collaborate with other team members - both Business and IT
- Must be able to work on flexible hours (weekends, European hours) during tax reporting period
- (good to have) Organization and management of tests (SIT / Non-regression, UAT)
- (good to have) Methodology (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall)
- (good to have) JIRA, Confluence and Release Management Tools
- (good to have) Knowledge on Reporting systems (similar to EasyTax, FiTax, SECTRAS, WM Daten, SIX)
- (good to have) Knowledge on different German Tax reports for Private banking clients