Data, Finance and Compliance Support Analyst, GIPS | Kuala Lumpur, MY

United Overseas Bank; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

United Overseas Bank is seeking a Data, Finance and Compliance Support Analyst to provide crucial application and data support within an innovative banking environment. The role requires a deep understanding of banking services and relevant technologies to ensure seamless operations and effective issue resolution. The successful candidate will engage with various stakeholders to enhance system stability and user satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in application development and banking finance.
• Strong understanding of banking products and regulatory reporting.
• Hands-on experiences in Teradata and Hadoop Big Data.

Responsibilities

• Provide application support and resolve reported incidents promptly.
• Analyze and interpret complex SQL queries and troubleshoot ETL pipelines.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure effective solutions.

Skills

Application Development

Data Analysis

Incident Management

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Teradata

Oracle

MS SQL

Unix/Linux

Control-M

Informatica

Job description

Data, Finance and Compliance Support Analyst, GIPS

Data, Finance and Compliance Support Analyst, GIPS

Data, Finance and Compliance Support Analyst, GIPS

Posting Date: 18 Jun 2025

Location:
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, MY, 59200

Company: UOB Innovation Hub 2 Sdn. Bhd.

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.

UOB Innovation Hub 2 (InnoHub 2) is a newly set up technology centre located in Kuala Lumpur as part of UOB Group Technology and Operations to deliver innovative financial technology solutions that enable business growth and technology transformation.

About the Department

The Technology and Operations function is comprised of five teams of specialists with distinct capabilities: business partnership, technology, operations, risk governance and planning support and services. We work closely together to harness the power of technology to support our physical and digital banking services and operations. This includes developing, centralising and standardising technology systems as well as banking operations in Singapore and overseas branches.

The Data and Finance Application Support team is within the Business Technology Services function, supporting the Bank's suite of Data warehousem, Finance and Compliance Application system. The team is responsible for the production stability of supported applications and ensuring on going improvements in system availability, supportability & service levels over time.

We are seeking a highly analytical and technically skilled Banking Business and Data Support Analyst who have a strong understanding of banking and financial services, be capable of reverse-engineering user queries into actionable logic and database-level insights, and possess the technical acumen to analyze ETL processes, identify issues, and collaborate with developers for effective solutions.

The successful candidate will be working with Business, Operations, Support and Development teams to ensure a high quality service & swift resolution of issues

Job Responsibilities
• Provide application support to various business users. Attend to business queries and business requests promptly. Follow through the business requests to a proper closure
• Work on timely resolution for reported incidents so as to meet service level targets. Incidents include failures & queries reported by business users and technical staff; event alerts automatically detected and reported by event monitoring tool
• Reverse-engineer user queries and reports to identify underlying data logic, source systems, and transformation rules.
• Analyze and interpret complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and data models to trace data lineage and logic.
• Review and troubleshoot ETL pipelines (Informatica, SSIS) to identify data quality issues, performance bottlenecks, or logic errors.
• Support data validation, reconciliation, and root cause analysis for data discrepancies in financial reports.
• Perform root cause analysis to identify permanent solution so as to prevent recurring incidents and to minimize the impact of incidents that cannot be prevented
• Ensure all incidents and problems are proactively managed - Prioritizing numerous issues of varying severity and escalate issues as appropriate to necessary teams and management
• Collaborate with the development team in identifying resolutions and transitioning of releases into production environment
• Adopt standard Incident and Problem Management workflow and processes, i.e timely ticket, defect and incidents loggings including proper change management processes and quality issue/impacts emails
• Participate in DR/BCM activities or infrastructure related upgrade
• Responsible of capacity management. To monitor & analyse current performance and capacity data and forecast the capacity required by the applications ahead
• Aside from day-to-day support duties, there will be requirements to undertake other responsibilities such as management reporting & other centrally driven project initiatives as needed

Job Requirements
• Degree in computer science/engineering or related disciplines.
• Min 5 years of experience in application development and support environment in Banking Finance, ETL, Data warehouse, and business intelligence
• Individual must have working experience in Unix/Windows platforms, batch scheduling tools, Database query skills, BI Tools skillsets
• Strong understanding of banking products, financial instruments, and regulatory reporting.
• Ability to read and interpret technical documentation, data dictionaries, and ETL job logs.
• Mandatory Technical skills : Teradata, Oracle / MS SQL, Unix/Linux, AS400, Control-M, Shell scripting
• Knowledge of ITIL of similar framework will be advantage
• Hands on Experiences in Teradata, Hadoop Big Data using Cloudera (CDH 5.8 or above), Hive, MS PBI , SSAS , Informatica
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Excellent knowledge of front to back banking business, finance, risk and accounting data across various sectors
• Excellent & proven Incident/Problem Management and organization skills a must

Be a part of UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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