Senior Business Analyst - Anti Money Laundering

BNP Paribas.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial institution is seeking a Senior Business Analyst in Singapore to facilitate business analysis for Wealth Management's compliance initiatives. The successful candidate will lead the IT Stream for AML activities, ensuring regulatory conformance and effective project governance. Key skills include strong analytical capabilities, project management experience, and familiarity with AML monitoring tools like NetReveal. This role offers opportunities for significant impact within a transformative compliance framework.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Employee networks and community engagement

Qualifications

• Experience in data analysis and translating requirements.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and third-party vendors.
• Familiarity with project management tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis for Wealth Management IT compliance.
• Coordinate and supervise UAT for new implementations.
• Define solutions and implementation roadmap with technical teams.

Skills

Strong analytical and product management skills

SQL proficiency

Experience with AML rules

Strong presentation skills

Agile methodologies knowledge

Education

Functional experience in Compliance Financial Security topics

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Visio

JIRA

Oracle DB tools

Job description

Position Purpose

BNP Paribas WM uses NETREVEAL Transaction monitoring AML (Vendor; Symphony AI) application for its financial security‑monitoring framework. Wealth Management entity is finalizing technical upgrade of Netreveal application from V7.4 to V8.4 vendor release and convergence of business process and IT applications across all countries by building a new multi‑entity and multi‑currency convergence platform.

Within the Wealth Management IT Hub Compliance Division, the Senior Business Analyst (SBA) will lead the business analysis activities related to his/her area of expertise, covering the scope of Wealth Management IT Compliance Anti Money Laundering activity in Europe and in Asia. The Senior Business Analyst (SBA) will be the IT Stream Lead representing the Compliance division in yar WITT (Wealth Management IT Transformation) Program, a strategic global program that replaces the core banking system to Temenos and to adapt data integration flows with new microservices from various upstream systems.

This is a very important position, as the candidate will be the key contact for Compliance Financial Security topics related to Anti Money Laundering.

Responsibilities

Business Analyst

• Organize and run dedicated meetings or committees.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal third parties to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artefacts as needed: Functional requirements (GFS), Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, Screen and Interface designs, Business process design, minutes, review and validation with Sponsors, Presentation etc.
• To perform preliminary studies , analysis (including leading stakeholder workshops), effort estimations.
• Analyse gaps in functionality and processes between European and Asian sites and propose solutions to converge and align them into a common design.
• Analyse and structure new requirements with all stakeholders involved in order to propose to the organization the best way to deliver appropriate solutions and integrate them in the overall program.
• Have relevant experience in defining and implementation of business rules, scenarios and supporting business parameters. Experience in AML rules will be an added advantage.
• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with the team's experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade‑offs between usability and performance needs.
• Be the liaison between the business units, and technology teams.
• Participate to the full development lifecycle including design, estimation, planning, development support, test support, release, implementation & guarantee support(determine suitable verb).
• Coordinate, supervise and contribute to Users Acceptance Tests (UAT) related to new implementations.
• Lead, with the support of technical teams, the definition of the solution and the implementation roadmap.
• Lead vendor discussions & solution for convergence and new version upgrade topics.

Project Management & Governance

• Good steering committee presentation skills; capacity to interact with C‑Level.
• Coordinate the implementation from a project management perspective and ensure the WMIS Project governance applied at each step.
• Highlight any potential concerns / risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.
• Manage all the decision making and analysis process allowing designing, validating the solution, and getting the necessary approvals in terms of architecture, IT risk and IT Security.
• Manage escalations during day‑to‑day business from stakeholders and propose amicable solutions.
• Ensure that every new solution implemented respects WMIS standards and allows for mutual oluyor / reuse as much as possible between sites.
• Coordinate with all teams, from same division or other divisions, hemma working on the same project.
• Passionate and ensure project is completed on time, on budget, with quality and meet the requirements as per the specifications.
• Support on project management activities such as cost estimation, planning elaboration governance, including follow‑up etc.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Self‑starter with positive mind set to work in any challenging situations.
• Focused approach on objectives and can‑do‑attitude.
• Strong proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Visio.
• Proficiency in SQL and Oracle DB tools for data analysis.
• Possess ability to manage various interested parties such as stakeholder, subject matter expert, third party vendor, contractor and business user.
• Capacity to negotiate.
• Familiar with project management tools as well as issue and release management, production and support (JIRA, Service Now, PPM tools, etc).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, managers, subject matter experts and technical teams.
• Experience in analyzing data, data sources and capability to translate the data analysis into business requirements.
• Experience in coordination of project with multiple IT assets, multiple owners and multiple sites.
• Experiences with Agile & Waterfall methodologies.
• High level knowledge on API and cloud topics will be added advantage.

Specific Qualifications (if required)

• Functional experience in Compliance Financial Security topics.
• Strong knowledge of NetReveal and or other AML monitoring tools.
• Knowledge on NetReveal‑ Optimization AML module would be added advantage.
• Knowledge on designing detection models and reporting.
• Knowledge on Scenario Manager would be added advantage.
• Knowledge on Command & Control reporting module.
• Knowledge on Alert & Case manager.
• Knowledge of Netreveal 8.4 would be added advantage.

About BNP PARIBAS

As the leading European Union bank and one of the world's largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.

We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.

BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community; BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organizationastore; Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness; BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds.

BNP is committed to financing a carbon‑neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net‑Zero Banking Alliance and has repaint own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.

BNPP has won Top Employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year.