First VP, Functional Business Analyst Compliance Lead (Data & Analytics), Group Technology & Ops

UOB; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is seeking an experienced functional business analyst lead to drive KYC/AML workflows and enterprise capabilities. You will map delivery roadmaps, collaborate with project managers, local and regional stakeholders, and ensure security and regulatory considerations are embedded in solutions.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategic planning, and strong stakeholder communication, with responsibility for coaching a team of analysts and advancing

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant banking experience.
• Deep AML/KYC, sanctions, and fraud knowledge in banking, insurance, or asset management.
• Knowledge of global regulatory environment and regulators' expectations.
• Change management and project management fundamentals.
• Experience in scoping and evaluation including scalability, maintainability, cost, operations and principal risk.
• Actimize, Detica and Quantexa experience is highly preferred.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, problem solving and process design skills.
• Understanding of technology and operational processes across bank functions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to translate business strategy into concrete actionable plans.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and influence across teams.
• Commitment to learning and development within teams.

Responsibilities

• Build strategic relationships with stakeholders to align technology with business needs.
• Lead KYC/AML workflow delivery and enterprise capabilities.
• Define delivery roadmap with project managers, business analysts, and architects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Group Singapore and Regional teams to elicit requirements.
• Lead analysis and documentation of to-be business processes and functional requirements.
• Support funding requests and monitor risks related to requirements and scope.
• Develop deployment plans and ensure security requirements are addressed.
• Oversee testing strategy and manage escalated test findings.
• Lead and coach a team of functional business analysts.
• Foster learning and development within the team.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology/Business/Finance

Tools

Actimize

Detica

Quantexa

Job description

Company: 1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd

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.

Job Description

What you’ll do

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Build strategic relationships and alliances with stakeholders to achieve common goals.
• Drive the organization’s technology alignment with business needs.
• Inspire stakeholders to pursue the organization’s technology vision.
• Manage critical internal and external stakeholders’ changes in needs and priorities.

Capabilities and Requirements Analysis and Definition

• Based on input from the business target operation model, to work with project managers, functional business analysts, technology teams, and domain architects to map out the delivery roadmap, capabilities, and architecture view.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders from across Group (Singapore and Regional) to elicit and review business requirements, focusing on delivering enterprise-wide capabilities for KYC customer lifecycle management, KYC workflow, and AML workflow delivery.
• Lead the analysis and documentation of the “to be” business and operations processes based on the agreed requirements and/or function points. Perform impact assessments.
• Support the analysis and definition of detailed functional and non-functional requirements based on business requirements, including the transition of these requirements to technology teams for solution design and delivery.
• Support funding requests for projects within the programme of work, ensuring that requests align with strategy, roadmap and target capability/architecture views.
• Monitor and manage risks/issues related to requirements and scope.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology teams to develop and deliver deployments plans.
• Collaborate with Group Information Security, where needed, to ensure non-functional requirements effectively incorporate security requirements.

Testing & Scope Management

• Work with the Testing Domain Lead and Test Managers to translate business requirements into a test strategy and testing approach, including the use of automated testing tools and methodology.
• Support the project teams with the clarification of escalated test findings, especially where findings result in business requirement or design changes.
• Review and assess change requests to determine cost and timeline impacts.
• Ensure all changes are approved in-line with programme governance.
• Partner with stakeholders in ensuring System Development Methodology framework, governance and process is followed to deliver technology-led change projects.

Post Go-Live

• Ensure that up-to-date knowledge and subject matter expertise in retained within the team via “train the trainer” sessions and documentation.

Lead and Develop Talent

• Lead and coach a team of functional business analysts.
• Develop plans to build the functional business analysis capabilities of the team.
• Develop programmes aimed at upskilling the organization’s workforce in technology.
• Review outcomes from talent development initiatives.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you’ll need to succeed

• You’ll have over 15 years of the relevant banking experience. Equivalent experience and skills also considered.
• Deep understanding of Compliance and/or Anti Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Client (KYC) principles and AML/ CFT, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and Fraud experience in banking, insurance and/or asset management.
• Knowledge of the global regulatory environment and a strong understanding of expectations of regulators, especially developments in KYC is helpful.
• Familiar with change management process and project management fundamentals
• Experience in scoping and evaluation - defining overall considerations, including scalability, maintainability, cost, operations and technology principal risk to provide a recommendation
• Compliance Technology platform experience with Actimize, Detica and Quantexa is highly preferred.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, problem solving and process design skills that can translate analysis into actions that meet business objectives
• Understanding of technology and operational processes across functions / departments in the bank/market
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Manage organizational ambiguity and differing stakeholder views
• Strong understanding of business strategies and ability to translate them into concrete achievable action plans
• Ability to collaborate, drive motivation across diverse team members and manage difficult conversations
• Creates and environment of learning and development through each other’s success and failures. Understands and channels team members to their personal and professional growth via challenging and stretch assignments.
• Strategic forward-thinking approach to challenges with outstanding influencing, negotiating and persuasion skills
• Passionate, diligent individual with ability to thrive in ambiguity
• Resourceful team player
• Tertiary level qualifications in Engineering/Technology/Business/Finance or equivalent

Additional Requirements

Be a Part Of the 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.