Senior Business Analyst

Peoplebank Singapore Pte Ltd; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with extensive experience in the Investment Banking sector, particularly within Market Risk. This role involves liaising with IT teams, analyzing functional impacts, and ensuring thorough testing and validation of developments. The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience, strong SQL skills, and a deep understanding of market risk concepts. This innovative firm offers a hybrid work arrangement, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life while contributing to impactful projects.

Qualifications

• 12+ years as a Business Analyst in Investment Banking.
• Thorough experience in functional testing and validation of development.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with IT business lines for requirement clarification.
• Conduct continuous testing and write functional test cases.

Skills

Business Analysis

Functional Testing

SQL

Market Risk Analysis

Data Modeling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or related field

Tools

SQL

Functional Testing Tools

Job description

Senior Business Analyst

• 12 months contract
• Work location: Pasir Panjang
• Hybrid work arrangement (after 6 months)

The Opportunity

• Liaise with IT business lines contacts for clarification and understanding of requirements.
• Analyze functional impacts considering technical constraints with the technical lead’s help.
• Prepare and present functional aspects of changes/evolutions to developers.
• Draft detailed functional specifications/users stories for developers, in line with general specifications or list of requirements provided by the project manager / Business Analysts.
• Support the technical development team in any functional aspects.
• Organize and keep up-to-date detailed functional documentation.

Responsible for the functional testing of development

• Develop test strategies in coordination with the project manager / Business Analysts.
• Conduct continuous testing in the development environment for development monitoring.
• Write functional unit test cases and functional test cases for system verification.
• Follow user acceptance testing and coordinate prioritization with the project manager.

Involved in support of application for functional incidents

• 2nd level support work on requests escalated from level 1.
• Reproduce, analyze, and investigate verifying codification and data.
• Analyze and/or solve functional problems in coordination with developers.

Your Background

• 12+ years as a Business Analyst in Investment Bank organization within Market Risk department.
• Technical experience to be comfortable with data models and SQL.
• Hands-on experience as a liaison between onshore IT business lines and offshore technical teams, serving as the primary functional support for the development team.
• Thorough experience in functional testing and validation of development.

Functional

• Market Risk knowledge (P&L explanation, VaR, and Stress VaR analysis is a must).
• General banking and finance understanding and knowledge.
• Market data (volatilities, curves, etc.), sensitivities.

May Anne Ramos (EA Reg no: R1110127)

Peoplebank Singapore Pte Ltd, EA Licence Number: 08C5248.