Business Analyst - Technology Solutions - Corporate (Trade)

OCBC Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OCBC Group is seeking an experienced Business Analyst in Singapore to engage senior stakeholders, elicit and translate complex trade finance requirements into actionable designs. You will bridge business and technology during SDLC/Agile sprints, ensuring regulatory alignment and cost-effective solutions across multiple product lines.

You will collaborate with IT, vendor teams and the governance body to refine requirements, map processes, and support UAT testing, enabling timely delivery and

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of relevant business analysis experience in financial services.
• Strong knowledge of Trade Finance products including Letter of Credit, Bank Guarantees, Standby Credits, Collections, and related areas.
• Good cross product knowledge - impact of trade to loans and limits.
• Able to demonstrate end-to-end flow of product and roles from front office to back office.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to gain consensus from multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent oral and written communication.

Responsibilities

• Engage business managers and end users to understand requirements.
• Elicit requirements, prioritise and analyse requests, design business processes, workflows and user interfaces, review of functional specifications and data mapping templates.
• Perform cross-asset class analysis on in-scope countries to aid decision-making for solutions.
• Collaborate with Delivery, Project Office, IS and vendor organisations to design optimal solutions within cost and schedule constraints.
• Prepare and deliver selective analysis presentations to governance forums and facilitate sessions as required.

Skills

Business analysis

SDLC/Agile

Stakeholder management

Regulatory knowledge

Trade finance domain knowledge

Requirements elicitation

Job description

WHO WE ARE:

As Singapore's longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

Today, we're on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia's leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.

Your Opportunity Starts Here.

Who we are

As Singapore's longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

Today, we're on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation.

But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia's leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.

Your Opportunity Starts Here.

About The Role

Engagement with business, capture business requirements accurately, comprehensively and without ambiguity, facilitate traceability and in harmony with existing system functionality

Play a consultant role to business in coming with multiple options for solutions and initiatives

Coordinate internal/business review and get business signoff for the project cost, plan, specifications etc

Be the bridge between Business and Technology team during solution and all phases of SDLC and/or Agile/SCRUM sprints/delivery.

Know market intelligence, regulatory requirements for trade finance business

What you do

To engage business managers and end users to understand requirements

Elicit requirements, prioritise and analyse requests, design business processes, workflows and user interfaces, review of functional specifications and data mapping templates

Perform specific cross-asset class analysis on in scope countries to aid decision-making on the most appropriate solution, for e.g. entities in scope, unique identifiers etc

Work with Delivery and Project Office as well as other internal IT departments, IS and vendor organizations to design optimal solutions, ensure requirements are transformed into effective solutions, within cost and schedules and quality adhering to the bank's standards, guidelines and policies

Involve in high level technical design/implementation discussions and contribute from business perspective

Prepare / review test scenarios and test cases, support test utility team for SIT, support user for UAT and other related activities to ensure business needs are met

Ensure gaps in deliverables are identified early and addressed effectively

Ensure Business stakeholders' expectations are met

Collaborate with Application / Service Owners as the Process Management counterpart in the management of service

Provide thought leadership within own area of responsibility and BA profession within the bank

Provide SME support to extended IT teams such as EDW by articulating requirements

Provide support to architecture committee and project teams to ensure that target operating models are progressing in line with the preferred strategic architecture / chosen architectures

Prepare and deliver selective analysis presentations to aid decision-making by governance forums and facilitate sessions when required

Who you are

At least 8-10 years of relevant business analysis experience in financial services environment

Strong business knowledge of Trade Finance products including Letter of Credit, Bank Guarantees, Standby Credits, Collections, Trade Financing, Participation Loans, Supply Chain Management, Factoring, Fund Transfers, Forex Payments, Accounting and SWIFT

Good cross product knowledge - impact of trade to loans and limits

Able to demonstrate end to end flow of product and roles and responsibilities from front office to middle office to back office

Strong analytical skills with the ability to assimilate information quickly and gain consensus from multiple stakeholders when required

Good oral and written communica