Business Analyst

Job Description
Business Analyst (QA) (112089)

Skill:(Investment Back office & Front office)

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements from various stakeholders, ensuring a clear understanding of their needs and objectives.
• Work with the Product Owner (PO) to prioritize requirements and decompose them into detailed user stories, ensuring a clear roadmap for development.
• Translate requirements into comprehensive functional specifications, including detailed descriptions of user interactions, data flows, and system behavior.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure that the software design aligns with the functional specifications and meets the defined requirements.
• Provide functional expertise to the development team, ensuring they have a clear understanding of the business processes and user needs.
• Research existing solutions, both internal and external, to determine if they can be leveraged to meet the business requirements.
• Understand technical constraints and participate in software design discussions, ensuring that the solution is feasible and aligns with the overall system architecture.
• Ensure the functional quality of the software, including participation in functional testing and providing functional support during production.
• Analyze the impact of functional changes on current production Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Operational Level Agreements (OLAs).
• Contribute to Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) activities by providing user scenarios and supporting functional testing efforts.
• Contribute to deployment activities by providing functional pre-requisites and performing post-deployment checks.
• Support team members in their functional activities, train new joiners, and help resolve functional issues.
• Ensure the seamless integration of the software into the existing IT infrastructure, collaborating closely with the Functional Architect.
• Specifications, workload estimates, planning, test scenarios, documentation.
• Build & change management:
• Analyze enhancement and propose solutions in collaboration with Architects, developers and business stakeholders.
• Specifications, workload estimates, planning, test scenarios, release documentation.
• Coordinate user acceptance tests.
• Monthly releases, following the team's milestones for analysis, coding and testing.
• Support the release roadmap in production.
• Incidents and Requests management (business users and other IT teams):
• Troubleshoot and fix issues/bugs.
• Continuous improvement:
• Improve operational processes.
• QA and Testing:
• Design and develop comprehensive quality assurance strategies and frameworks. Implement automated testing systems to ensure reusability and efficiency.
• Design and implement comprehensive test plans and test cases based on requirements and design documentation.
• Implement automated test systems to ensure reusability and efficiency.
• Perform various types of testing, including functional, integration, regression, and performance testing. Analyze and track down error root causes, providing detailed reports and recommendations for improvement.
• Promote and implement testing methodologies, aiming to identify and address defects early in the development lifecycle.
• Provide technical support to other teams, assisting with problems encountered internally, such as system malfunctions. Propose solutions, suggest improvements, and contribute to data analysis.
• Document all testing activities, including test results, discovered defects, and any relevant observations. Prepare detailed reports for management and the Delivery Team.

• 5+ years experience in Business analysis
• QA testing activities.
• Experience with Quality Assurance (Functional and Automation Testing) and Desk of Treasury
• Experience on Front Office systems (In-house or third-party systems).
• Familiar with requirements life cycle management, analysis planning and monitoring, requirements' analysis, and design definition.
• Hands-on experience as liaison function between the onshore IT business lines and offshore technical teams and as primary functional support for development team
• Strong experience on TSY and Investment Banking Product classes like Money Market (LD, Paper/CDs, Call Accounts), Bonds, FX (Spot, Forwards and Swaps) and Derivatives (IRD, FXO) and Equities.
• Knowledgeable of techniques to elicit and manage requirements, as well as software development models including Agile methodologies.
• Understanding of financial assets (banking treasury products) and trade lifecycle particularly Fixed income and money market products in their many forms, knowledge of risk management concepts and market data.
• Experience in interfacing FO or BO systems with external systems.
• Hands-on experience in implementation projects.
• AGILE track record.
• Technical background with shell script and sql/plsql, knowledge preferable of .net core / java and Azure devops and testing frameworks like but not limited to Selenium, Cucumber.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management.
• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members' skills.
• Autonomous, self-motivated, and excellent team player
• Ability and flexibility to work with cross-geographical teams operating in different time zones.

• The Business analyst is a functional specialist working with all stakeholders from his IT Division and aligned Business division to define and document Business needs and software requirements. The BA advises, reports and alerts top optimize and enhance solutions favouring the delivery of value. You will belong to Functional Community with all Business Analysts and Functional Architects.
• This will cover the whole cycle from requirement gathering, specifications and testing until the delivery to production including the following responsibilities:
• Ensure business requirement analysis activities
• Analyse Business requirement based on prioritization given by PO
• Help the PO and the team in decomposing requirements into detailed stories
• Translate requirements into cases into Functional Specification documents
• Ensure the functional design of the software delivered by the team
• Support functional knowledge of the team with the help of the PO
• Research to determine if solutions currently exist in or outside the team
• Understand technical constraints and participate to the software design
• Ensure functional quality of the software and Production quality
• Analyze functional change impacts on current production SLA & OLA
• Contribute to the BDD activities by providing users scenarios
• Contribute to the functional testing and functional support activities
• Contribute to deployment via functional prerequisites, post-deployment checks
• Support the members of the team in their functional activities
• Train new joiners and team members functionally on the software
• Help team members in solving their functional issues
• Ensure integration of the software in the IS in sync with the functional architect
• This position is a rare opportunity to work with technical and functional subject matter experts of the Financial Industry, be exposed to the latest technologies deployed by the bank and grow your finance and capital markets experience with Summit, a market leading packaged software.

• 5+ years of experience as a business analyst in a financial organization and more specifically on Market Data administration domain.
• Exposure to Collateral management (payment of Variable Margin, initial Margin, MtM)
• Relevant experience in FPML format
• Exposure to the Capital Markets with proficiency in financial instruments (FX, Bonds, Rates, Equity, etc..), trading lifecycle and specifically market data.
• Proven experience in technical proficiency with strong skills in SQL, Excel and possibility programming languages like Python or R for data manipulation and analysis. Familiarity with database management and querying
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both team mates and management
• Ability to convey clearly and concisely ideas in a concrete and coherent way.
• Proficient software development life cycle
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Autonomy to include implicit deliverables in assignment based on best practices
• Strong appetite to learn both functional and technical new domain
• Appetite to participate to communities
• Strong sense of confidentiality
• Willing to do L3 Support if required.

• Ability to easily communicate with multi-cultural team members
• Experience in project management
• Experience in Back Office system (Calypso) or Front-Office or Market Risk
• Usage of tools such as MS Office / Sharepoint /Project / Visio, Jira, GIT
• Understanding of UML
• Cloud notion
• Any Object-oriented language: Java, .Net

• Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements from various stakeholders, ensuring a clear understanding of their needs and objectives.
• Work with the Product Owner (PO) to prioritize requirements and decompose them into detailed user stories, ensuring a clear roadmap for development.
• Translate requirements into comprehensive functional specifications, including detailed descriptions of user interactions, data flows, and system behaviour.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure that the software design aligns with the functional specifications and meets the defined requirements.
• Provide functional expertise to the development team, ensuring they have a clear understanding of the business processes and user needs.
• Research existing solutions, both internal and external, to determine if they can be leveraged to meet the business requirements.
• Understand technical constraints and participate in software design discussions, ensuring that the solution is feasible and aligns with the overall system architecture.
• Ensure the functional quality of the software, including participation in functional testing and providing functional support during production.
• Analyze the impact of functional changes on current production Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Operational Level Agreements (OLAs).
• Contribute to Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) activities by providing user scenarios and supporting functional testing efforts.
• Contribute to deployment activities by providing functional prerequisites and performing post-deployment checks.
• Support team members in their functional activities, train new joiners, and help resolve functional issues.
• Ensure the seamless integration of the software into the existing IT infrastructure, collaborating closely with the Functional Architect.
• Specifications, workload estimates, planning, test scenarios, documentation.

• 5+ years of experience as a business analyst in a financial organization and more specifically on Market Data administration domain.
• Relevant experience in FPML format
• Proven experience in technical proficiency with strong skills in SQL, Excel and possibility programming languages like Python or R for data manipulation and analysis. Familiarity with database management and querying
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both team mates and management
• Ability to convey clearly and concisely ideas in a concrete and coherent way.
• Willing to do L3 Support if required.
• Exposure in the management of Static Market data
• Exposure to data provider (BBG, REFINITIV...)
• Exposure to the Capital Markets with proficiency in financial instruments (FX, Bonds, Rates, Equity, etc..), trading lifecycle.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management.
• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members' skills.
• Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player

• Ability to easily communicate with multi-cultural team members
• Experience in project management
• Experience in Back Office system (Calypso) or Front-Office or Market Risk
• Usage of tools such as MS Office / Sharepoint /Project / Visio, Jira, GIT
• Understanding of UML
• Cloud notion
• Any Object-oriented language: Java, .Net

• Analyse business technology requirements and specifications against value and risk of potential solutions, Identify suitable technological solutions for the business
• Examine interactions between systems elements, systems performance and issues, and designs the solution blueprint for the specific area of expertise with the consideration of implications for integration across the entire solution.
• Translates business requirements and user needs into functional and technical specifications, ensuring that business requirements are incorporated into the solution design.
• Evaluate the feasibility, viability and implications of proposed solutions and/or enhancements to systems on the current and future business environment
• Balance requests and competing priorities from key stakeholders to maximise the value delivered to the organization.
• Present business cases defining potential benefits, solutions to increase efficiencies of business processes and associated risks
• Create, review & maintain the documentation of the design documents, coding documents and user manuals
• Specification of business rules for regulatory reporting, business operations and transformations.
• Functional design and testing of solutions.
• Maintenance and promotion of best practices around the data dictionary of the bank
• Interaction with developers to define implementation specs
• Interaction with other IT teams to explain and communicate on Data services
• Assisting with the daily operations through scrum, Jira and Kanban, techniques.
• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes relevant to capital markets.

• 3+ years of relevant experience
• Prior experience with front office or in capital market
• Strong exposure to SQL
• Experience in supporting capital market applications and trading systems, ideally within the dynamic landscape of Market Risk/Front Office operations with a commendable grasp of financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD, Bonds, RSF etc.)
• Skilled in Data analysis using database queries (Sql/Oracle/Sybase),TSQL and JOINS
• Good working understanding of Microservices and Swagger UI
• Basic knowledge on UNIX Commands and Scripting
• Hand on experience of sourcing data from various application covering various data format like CIBML /Kafka messages/Json...
• Strong understanding on the CFT concepts
• Strong knowledge on the XSLT transformation and tools like Oxygen OS
• Basic understanding on the tools like Grafana, KIBANA, EJB
• Good understanding on GIT, JIRA, Agile project management concept
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management
• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members' skills.
• Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player