Job Description

Introduction to the role:
The role offers an opportunity to work within one of the world's leading financial institutions with cutting-edge innovation in its DNA. The role is currently sitting with the IT team for its regulatory finance technology team.

The Position:

• Work on automation projects for APAC finance regulatory reporting technology team as senior business analyst.
• Gather data and business requirements by working with finance and operations teams in APAC.
• Challenge current business processes and functional logic if there are gaps with regulatory requirements while capturing requirements for automation.
• Perform peer review of requirements documented by other business analysts.
• Document business requirements and translate business terms into functional specifications for development team and coordinate with other technology teams to source data for regulatory reporting.
• Participate in design discussion and provide inputs to come up with solution that is scalable and sustainable.
• Work with scrum master to coordinate between the business users, development and support team on requirement sign off, development support, functional testing, and release management.
• Participate in scrum routines for sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint review and retrospective.
• Work with scrum master to break project into epics and write user stories
• Perform data analysis and work on data quality issues impacting regulatory reporting.
• Work with users to define data controls and operating model post automation.
• Raise risks in project in timely manner with scrum master and escalate as needed.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of Business Analyst experience in banking domains.
• Understanding of regulatory framework and upcoming regulations in APAC financial regulatory reporting.
• Understanding of corporate banking (credit facilities/loans/deposits/trade finance) & global markets (FX/derivatives/securities/money market) financial products and business process
• Understanding of reference data needed for regulatory reporting (customer/ratings/FX rates)
• Understanding of software development process; actual experience in Agile/Scrum process will be an advantage
• Experience in gathering business requirements, creating specifications, writing user stories.
• Experience in data analysis using SQL and excel.
• Understanding of capital calculation, BASEL 3, VaR, liquidity ratios, market risk and counterparty risk calculation will be an advantage
• Good communication skills and experience in working in a virtual team
• Previous experience in regulatory reporting projects.

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified / contacted.
For more information you can email Hinwa Wong in our Singapore office on hinwa.wong@teksystems.com quoting Job Reference Hinwa Wong 535042 or alternatively, apply here to register your interest.
http://jobs.en-sg.teksystems.com/U5YR1O/business-analyst-regulatory-finance-technology-itcommunications-singapore-singapore-15709565
Job Reference: Hinwa Wong 535042

EA Registration No.: R21102288, Hinwa Wong

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