Business Analyst - VP

Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in Singapore is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to design IT solutions and gather requirements from various stakeholders in wealth management. The ideal candidate will have at least 12 years of experience, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication abilities. Competitive salary and flexible benefits are offered in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Holistic, flexible benefits

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• At least 12 years of experience in wealth management or relevant financial institutions.
• Excellent knowledge of investment products and wealth management practices.
• Proficient in documentation and use case modeling.

Responsibilities

• Design IT solutions for business initiatives.
• Gather and document business requirements from stakeholders.
• Analyze operational processes for improvements.

Skills

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Understanding of investment products

Knowledge of regulatory requirements

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in computer science or investment discipline

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.

Business Analyst

Why Join

The Business Analyst is part of the Business Solutioning team in technology department who serves as a liaison to business stakeholders, Business and Operation Managers, Product Owners in various Business Units across the OCBC group. Key business stakeholders include Bank of Singapore, Consumer Financial Services, Global Markets.

How you succeed

To succeed in this role, you'll need to be able to elicit business initiatives across various business units and design an end-to-end solution for the Group Wealth Platform.

What you do

- Solution Design: Design IT functional solutions for business initiatives or projects. Construct the desired solutions by considering the concept of end-to-end, reusability, high availability, forward looking and lasting value.

- Requirements Gathering: Work with stakeholders across various departments across the region to gather and document detailed business requirements

- Subject Matter Expert of responsible functional domains for Investment products Order management, trade execution, straight-through processing and other Life cycle management of Investment products

- Process Analysis and Optimization: Analyse existing operational processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement through digitalization.

- Explore new ideas/new tools to address the key EPICs and perform first level functional validation of new ideas/new tools.

- Provide directions and clarifications to project team during the development phase of the project to any queries pertaining to the FSD or BRD. Where necessary, re-engage business SMEs to revise requirements and/or for the acceptance of alternative solutions, due to design or implementation constraints encountered.

- Collaborate with Quality Assurance team to define the test strategy and approach and provide clarifications to queries during the testing phase, to both the Quality Assurance team and Business Testers during UAT.

Who you are

- At least 12 years of relevant working experience as a Senior Business Analyst or Solution Manager in Wealth Management, Private banks, Investment banks, Asset Management Firms or relevant financial institutions. Have a broad understanding of the wealth management industrial trend and practices.

- Excellent front-to-back knowledge of Investment products and/or wealth management products including life cycle management of investment products

- Good understanding of the regulatory requirement and business rules in wealth management domains.

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

- Proficient in the documentation of use cases, visual modeling, business processes, in the business requirements document and functional specifications document.

- Excellent inter-personal and communication skills, with strong ability to manage and align expectations of senior level business stakeholders across different business units to accept solutions proposed by project team.

- Good knowledge of system engineering concepts, data and information structures in an IT system environment.

- Competent in IT solutioning processes such as effort estimation, vendor management negotiation

- Degree in computer science, software engineering and/or investment discipline preferred.

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 organization.
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.

What we offer
Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Equal opportunity. Fair employment. Selection based on ability and fit with our culture and values. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.

What we offer:

Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.