Avp, Business Analyst, Initiatives/change

**Business Function**

Group Finance aims to deliver world-class standards in reporting, financial planning and finance processes. We provide insights and analyses that help the bank make sound business decisions - whether in the areas of product development or customer profitability. We also provide capital management, business planning, forecasting, and tax and accounting advisory services. The bank is also a certified Accredited Training Organisation (ATO) for the Singapore Qualification Programme by the Singapore Accountancy Commission and an Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Approved Employer.

**Job Purpose**

This role plays a dual role of being the lead business analyst and project manager, responsible for smooth and timely delivery of business initiatives and on-going change requests for Finance stakeholders operating in the domain areas of Product Control, Business Finance and Financial Planning & Analysis.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Perform data profiling, understand, and analyse business needs, mutual interdependencies, risks, and benefits to advise and collaborate with business users and technology colleagues to arrive at the optimal solution and design that satisfies business needs and timelines.
- Define functional/business requirements and collaborate with finance stakeholders to ensure that all user requirements are holistically captured in the product backlog.
- Explain business requirements to data engineers, provide continual support during product development, formulate test strategy, execute testing and live verification.
- Plan, manage resources, track progress, agree priorities with stakeholders, responsible for end-to-end direction and cross-hub collaboration with the end goal of delivering strategic solutions that address business gaps and requirements in sustainable and timely manner.
- Provide on-going user support, incident management and change management when products/solutions are business live.

**Responsibilities**
- Gather business requirements from Finance users, perform in-depth requirement analysis, prepare project documentation, identify solutions, articulate the requirements to technology counterparts, review the proposed system design and specifications and ensure that all the requirements are met.
- Carry out detailed and comprehensive data profiling and analysis of different business/what-ifs/exceptional scenarios when crafting the overall business process flows and systems design.
- Co-ordinate, prioritize and collaborate with different stakeholders, within and outside Group Finance, to manage the book of work and deliverables for BUC Hub.
- Adopt and abide by AGILE methodology and practices. Maintain proper product backlog, prepare high quality user stories, perform sprint planning/grooming/user testing, attend stand-ups etc.
- Present new user requirements and systems/architecture design at data/design councils to ensure standardization and conformity to Finance Platform roadmap.
- Formulate user acceptance testing (UAT) strategy according to the initiative/scope of change before executing testing/live verification.
- Document and continuously update business/systems architecture, business processes, data flows etc.
- Transit the managed project into BAU mode by working with BAU team closely and transferring of knowledge to the BAU team.
- Adept at juggling between tight timelines, limited resources, and multiple deliverables. Able to anticipate needs and problems to ensure successful and timely delivery of milestones and initiatives.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.

**Requirements**:

- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science or Engineering-related field.
- Experience working in AGILE teams as a business analyst and/or project manager for project rollouts and on-going change management in the finance and banking industry.
- Experience with financial and/or MIS systems in banking industry, familiar with banking products and organisational structure of large banks.
- Knowledge of Finance user business processes and systems/data technical processes.
- Experience working with diverse stakeholders and Technology team.
- Minimum 7 years’ relevant experience in financial services industry.
- Quick learner, highly analytical, creative problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills required, be articulate and pro-active in engaging stakeholders.
- Delivery focused and result-oriented.
- Superb attention to detail, capable of delivering a high-level of accuracy in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work with complexity and ambiguity and use it to their advantage.
- Strong data analysis skills, must be comfortable to work with data and having ability to connect the dots/propose options using data.
- Good knowledge of banking products, financial accounting, MIS reporting and finance processes.
- Good knowledge of system design principles, comfortable working with huge amounts of data.
- Strong presentation