Avp, Functional Business Analyst

**About UOB**: United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) 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. **About the Department**: Group Technology and Operations (GTO) provides software and system development, information technology support services and banking operations. We 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. Our Operations divisions provide transactional customer services for our businesses while also focusing on cost efficiency through process improvements, automation and straight through processing. **Responsibilities**: Requirements Analysis & Elicitation - Collaborate with BU Specialists to elicit and review business requirements - Analyse and document the "to be" business and operations processes based on the agreed requirements and / or function points, perform impact assessment - Responsible to analyse and define detailed functional and non-functional requirements based on business requirements - Monitor and manage risks /issues related to requirements and scope creep - Write business functional release notes and contribute to deployment plan Team Collaboration - Transition functional and non-functional requirements to System Analysts, and ensure a clear and complete understanding of the requirements - Work with Test Manager to translate business requirements into test scenarios Testing & Scope Management - Clarify test findings escalated by Test Manager and classify the findings accordingly (either as a defect or change request) - Perform impact assessment and estimation for Project - Change Request **Job Requirements**: - Bachelor Degree in Engineering / Business / Finance or equivalent - Minimum 12-15 years of relevant banking and/or consulting experience - Experience of 5-10 years’ in functional analysis of two or more of the following - data, analytics/advanced analytics, visualization/dashboard and cross-channel customer engagement projects. - Ability to understand business requirements in a financial services context, with experience of aligning multiple stakeholders & across products. The person should be able to develop strong relationships with business & tech partners, be able to judge needs v/s feasibility of requirements and effectively map out a roadmap of features. - Strong understanding of data - data lake, data models, ETL concepts, data attributes in retail banking is desirable. - Work requires documenting business requirements, data capabilities, data structures in detail to allow technology developers to build solutions to resolve requirements. - Experience with marketing analytics & real time campaign management solutions is desirable; experience with usage of data in customer journeys and banking mobile apps - 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. - Resourceful team player - 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 - Experience in scoping and evaluation - Defining overall considerations, including scalability, maintainability, cost, operations and technology principal risk to provide a recommendation **Be a part of UOB Family**: