Business Analyst Banking – Trade Finance Supply Chain

ANTAES ASIA PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Singapore seeks an experienced IT Business Analyst. The candidate will ensure business objectives are well defined and perform systematic business analysis. Ideal candidates should have 5-8 years of experience in a Corporate Banking IT environment and strong functional skills to bridge business needs with IT architecture. The role involves collaborating with multiple teams across cultures and countries.

Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years of experience in a Corporate Banking IT environment.
• Last 2-3 years as an IT Business Analyst, preferably in Trade Financing or Supply Chain Financing.
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall SDLC project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring business objectives are well-defined.
• Performing systematic business analysis.
• Guiding the Testing team in writing test scenarios.

Skills

Strong functional & business analysis skills

Good communication and coordination skills

Hands-on database SQL knowledge

Experience in designing functional solutions for web applications

Familiar with standard formats like XML, SWIFT

Job description

Role and Responsibilities

• Ensuring the business/operational objectives of the new business requirements are well-defined.
• Performing systematic business analysis.
• Validating business requirements to align with business/operations needs as well as IT architecture and security standards.
• Designing functional solutions & user workflows and documenting Functional Specifications.
• Develop SIT/UAT/NRT scope and approach.
• To guide the Testing team in writing test scenarios/cases and review to get signoff from stakeholders.
• Rationalize test cases when needed to match with available resources and target timeline.
• Validate SIT test results produced by the testing team to sign off.
• Assist users in planning/executing UAT, analyzing defects, and defining defects priority for fix delivery by the development team.

Ideal candidate

• Strong functional & business analysis skills with the ability to communicate and bridge between business/operations & IT.
• Good functional experience in Supply chain/Trade/Electronic invoicing applications is preferred.
• Good team player with great commitment and attitude.
• Good communication and coordination skills among multiple teams that are cross-cultural and cross-country.
• Ability to work independently.
• Familiar with standard formats such as XML, SWIFT, EDIFACT, ISO20022 & data transformations.
• Hands-on database SQL knowledge.
• Experience in functional solutions design for large web applications and microservices.
• Well-versed with integrations and APIs, REST. Designing functional solutions for high volume, low latency, and high availability and performance requirements of web applications.
• IT Design and development exposure is a definite plus.
• Good understanding and knowledge of key security subjects (SSL/TLS, PKI, Certificates) and user authentication solutions.
• 5 - 8 years of experience in a Corporate Banking IT environment with the last 2-3 years as an IT Business Analyst, preferably in the domain of Trade Financing or Supply Chain Financing.
• Worked in Agile and Waterfall SDLC mix project delivery environment with a large number of stakeholders and users involved.