Technical Business Analyst - Singapore

LUXOFT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a talented Business Analyst to join their dynamic Capital Market Department in Singapore. The ideal candidate will act as a liaison between business and technical teams, analyzing technology needs and providing innovative solutions in the financial sector. This role covers regulatory reporting, data sourcing, and the use of advanced technologies, making it exciting and challenging in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in relevant activities.
• Understanding of financial products (e.g., Treasury, FX, Bonds).
• Hands-on experience with regulatory transaction reporting.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business tech requirements to identify suitable solutions.
• Translate business needs into functional and technical specifications.
• Create and maintain design documentation and user manuals.

Skills

Data analysis

Communication

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Tools

SQL

Oracle

Sybase

JIRA

Grafana

KIBANA

Git

Job description

Project Description:

• Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world's 12th largest bank by total assets.

• We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:

• Envisioning and preparing the Bank's futures information systems

• Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.

• Providing premium In-house Banking applications,

• This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.

• We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

• We are seeking a talented Business Analyst to join our dynamic Capital Market Department!

• In this role, you serves as the liaison between the business and technical teams in translating complex business needs into technological solutions. He/She analyses business technology requirements and specifications against value and risk of potential solutions, and conducts cost-benefit and risk assessment analysis for proposed solutions to determine suitability of solutions.

• Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and Regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API’s, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse business technology requirements and specifications against value and risk of potential solutions, Identify suitable technological solutions for the business

• Examine interactions between systems elements, systems performance and issues, and designs the solution blueprint for the specific area of expertise with the consideration of implications for integration across the entire solution.

• Translates business requirements and user needs into functional and technical specifications, ensuring that business requirements are incorporated into the solution design.

• Evaluate the feasibility, viability and implications of proposed solutions and/or enhancements to systems on the current and future business environment

• Balance requests and competing priorities from key stakeholders to maximise the value delivered to the organization.

• Present business cases defining potential benefits, solutions to increase efficiencies of business processes and associated risks

• Create, review & maintain the documentation of the design documents, coding documents and user manuals

• Specification of business rules for regulatory reporting, business operations and transformations.

• Functional design and testing of solutions.

• Maintenance and promotion of best practices around the data dictionary of the bank

• Interaction with developers to define implementation specs

• Interaction with other IT teams to explain and communicate on Data services

• Assisting with the daily operations through scrum, Jira and Kanban, techniques.

• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes relevant to capital markets.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 4+ years of experience in relevant activities.

• Skilled in Data analysis using database queries (SQL/Oracle/Sybase), TSQL and JOINS

• Basic knowledge on UNIX Commands and Scripting

• Hands-on experience of sourcing data from various application covering various data format like CIBML / Kafka messages / Json ,…

• Understanding on the CFT concepts

• Knowledge on the XSLT transformation and tools like Oxygen OS

• Basic understanding on the tools like Grafana, KIBANA, EJB

• Good understanding of GIT, JIRA, Agile project management concept.

• Experience in supporting capital market applications and trading systems, ideally within the dynamic landscape of Market Risk/Front Office operations with a commendable grasp of financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD, Bonds, RSF etc.)

• Hands on expertise on various transaction reporting regulation like MIFID2 / SFTR / EMIR / CFTC and any APAC transaction regulatory reporting .

• Experience on Market data, Pricing, Clearing & Settlement, Confirmation, Affirmation concept, Regulatory data sourcing from various upstream platform like: Jet Stream, TradeWeb, MarkitWire.

• Strong functional knowledge of financial product (Derivative products like IRS, TRS, CDS, etc.) & regulatory reporting

• Ability drive end to end regulatory project with complete ownership

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

• Ability to work under pressure

• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities

• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies

• Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management

• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’ skills

• Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Working understanding of Microservices and Swagger UI

• Messaging Queue concepts and tools like Hermes

• Good understanding of the data sourcing from various front office application like Kondor, Summit, OT, etc.

• Experience of capital market processes, e.g. Pricing, Sales/Trader workflow, etc.