Senior Business Analyst

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- Mabel Teo- Tech Recruiter**Who we are**

**Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB)** is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 10th largest bank by total assets.

Our Singapore center, **Information Systems Asia Pacific (ISAP)**, is one of the 3 main IT Hubs for Crédit Agricole CIB's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:

- Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems
- Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.

We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

**Cash Management and Corporate Banking Services (CCS) Department**

CCS is at the heart of many large and deep IT transformation programs of the bank. Our expertise on conducting such programs makes us a key actor of the transformation of strategic activities of the bank like Cash Management, Payments, Financing and Trade Finance. The information systems we produce, with budgets in excess of 100ME, have a profound and lasting impact on CACIB digital transformation and are key for the bank success and competitive advantage.

We are also supporting everyday our clients by building and maintaining the international Information System of Crédit Agricole CIB.

Business focused and technology oriented at heart, our DNA has been built on our love for business and engineering challenges as well as the construction of full innovative, scalable and extendable Information Systems.

We ensure our success in such complex missions with a “human-first mindset”, focusing on nurturing our talents, developing our expertise, with agility, collaborative and continuous improvement mindset as our core values.

**Position**

In a challenging and multicultural environment, we seek a Senior Business Analyst to join our **Cash Management and Corporate Banking Services (CCS)** IT department.

CCS is in charge of developing and maintaining the International Back Office Cash Management System of Crédit Agricole CIB. This information system is deployed in 25 business units all around the world. The system has multiple modules to manage reference data, commercial back office functions (payments, remittances, loans, deposits, guarantees, letters of credit), accounting, management control and credit risk monitoring. The system caters to local regulatory reporting needs and head office reporting, based on a data warehouse.

**Main responsibilities**
- Contribute to the team’s business needs with strong functional expertise on GPP-SP platform for International Payments, Real Time Payments, Cash & Liquidity Management, Compliance/AML, FX, Messaging (Swift and ISO), clearing and settlement mechanisms
- Provide expertise on Corporate Payments, Correspondent Banking and Indirect Participants Banking
- Provide the strong expertise on GPP-SP configuration management and Business & system configurations
- Understanding the BRD and conducting requirement gathering by various means like brainstorming, workshops, Questionnaire and working with different stakeholders of the cash management team like Product Managers (Global as well as In-Country), Client Services, Implementation, Operations and Finance in the context of GPP-SP.
- Mapping the identified functional requirements to GPP-SP and defining a solution with the help of it to fulfill the payment processing.
- Do Fit-Gap Analysis of the Business Requirements and design configuration solutions in GPP to minimize the Gaps and use GPP capabilities to address the requirements.
- Provide Defect Triage analysis of the issue raised by Quality Assurance team and work towards fixing of the issue using GPP configuration capabilities.
- Identifying the scope of the requirements, validating the requirements in the context of GPP-SP.

**Analysis and design of GPP solutions**
- Business Analysis best practices and Engagement of Stakeholders across Front-to-Back functions.
- Is responsible for all analysis of functional requirements arising from the requirements of
- business stakeholders, business users and technology.
- Manage the requirements and provide design options for the solutions available and guide the team.
- Evaluate of alternative IT solutions and provide appropriate recommendations.
- Provide domain expertise with the strong understanding of all cross border payment processing knowledge to help define a viable business solution, working with the key business sponsors in GPP-SP.
- Ensure that the services delivered conforms with, and contributes to the development of the business strategy.
- Assess the impacts on the project deadlines resulting from change requests, adhoc projects, or technology issues.
- Coordinate wit