Senior Finance Business Analyst

WE-PLUS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

WE-PLUS PTE. LTD. seeks a Senior Business Analyst to drive a multi-year transformation of core banking and credit systems.

You will run workshops with finance stakeholders, map requirements to data and functionalities, and ensure regulatory reporting alignment with Basel IV and IFRS9. The role covers the full IT lifecycle from elaboration to production, requiring strong stakeholder management. Candidates should have 10+ years as a BA, a degree in IT, and deep knowledge of credit risk, core

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or relevant field.
• 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst.
• Hands-on IT systems implementation in credit-risk, regulatory reporting, and core banking.
• Experience in banking wealth management and full IT project lifecycle.
• Knowledge of IFRS9 and Basel IV regulatory requirements.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage workshops, workshops, and cross-regional collaboration.
• Proven ability to translate requirements into functional specs and data mappings.
• Ability to prioritize tasks in high-pressure environments.
• Experience documenting requirements, functional specs, and testing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Organize workshops with stakeholders to assess business needs.
• Align requirements, data mappings, and functionalities with Group and local finance teams.
• Drive application impact analysis post-workshops and ensure compliance with governance.
• Document detailed business requirements and functional specifications.
• Translate requirements into non-functional specs for tech teams.
• Lead UAT and coordinate smooth transition to new systems.
• Maintain backlog of requirements, transformations, and adaptations.
• Collaborate with developers, solution architects, and SMEs to design solutions.
• Oversee full lifecycle: elaboration, build, transition, production.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

UAT

Credit risk

Regulatory reporting

IFRS9

Core banking

Banking Wealth Management

IT project lifecycle

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Job description

Role Summary

Our Client is transforming the Core Banking System and Credit system. As part of this transformation program, it would require making necessary adaptations in Finance assets and meeting the Group & Local Regulatory Reporting objectives with the new system. We are looking for a suitable Senior Business Analyst to join the Division for a multi-year project.

Main Responsibilities

• Organize workshops with respective stakeholders and assess business needs.
• Perform study with the Group & Local Finance teams and vendor/consulting team (if required) to align on the requirements, data mappings and functionalities/scope.
• Drive and plan the application impact analysis after Business workshop.
• Ensure the functional mappings/data comply with local and Group expectations.
• Documenting detailed business requirements and functional specifications.
• Translate the requirements into non-functional specifications for technology teams to develop.
• Conducting user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensuring a smooth transition to new systems.
• Identify any bottlenecks and recommend improvements.
• Collaborate with technology teams to ensure seamless integration and development of the application or data interface flows.
• Build and maintain the Backlog of requirements, transformations and adaptations.
• Work with various Stakeholders, to implement the deliverables and to resolve challenges and issues.
• Involvement in full development lifecycle, from Elaboration->Build->Transition->Production.
• Adhere to WMIS Governance and guiding principles.
• Business requirements consolidation and formal validation from sponsor/product owner.
• Prepare migration and testing strategy consolidation and formal validation
• Coordinate with all teams, from same division or other divisions, working on the same program
• Work with the development team, Business analyst, Solution architects, Application SMEs to design the functional solutions.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or relevant fields.
• Should have worked as a Business analyst at least for 10 years.
• Hands-on experience in the following areas in IT system implementations: Credit-risk (Limits, Collateral Management, Counterparty Risk); Regulatory Reporting (Knowledge on Basel IV, Site specific local regulatory requirements); Core banking (Knowledge on Loan/Deposit lifecycle).
• Demonstrable experience in a similar role in the Banking Wealth Management industry.
• Experience working throughout the entire IT project life cycle; including analyzing and documenting requirements, workshops, testing and stakeholder management throughout.
• Good knowledge and working capability of product life cycle like loans, deposits, forex, derivatives, limits, Guarantees, securities etc.
• Should have knowledge on Credit life cycle and IFRS9 reporting system implementation lifecycle.
• Should have good knowledge and understanding of the information flow and various business functions in a financial services/bank.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Able to conduct the workshops with business teams and challenge the requirements.
• Collaborate with teams and work with groups effectively spread across various regions
• Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude.
• Responsible and good organization of work in each project phase.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.