Technology Business Analyst (Banking)

D L Resources Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in Singapore is seeking a professional with experience in banking and consulting to manage stakeholder relationships and enable technology solutions. The successful candidate will have a strong background in Trade Finance, with excellent problem-solving and communication skills. Responsibilities include developing high-level solutions and managing change implementation. A Bachelor's degree and 5-8 years of relevant experience are required for this role.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-8 years of relevant banking and/or consulting experience.
• Strong business domain knowledge in banking (Trade Finance).
• Outstanding communication, influencing, negotiating, and persuasion skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor for new business demands requiring technology or operations enablement.
• Develop high-level solutions to achieve target business outcomes.
• Manage communication and updates to stakeholders on critical production incidents.

Skills

Stakeholder Relationship Management

Quantitative analysis

Problem solving

Project management

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/business/finance

Job description

Responsibilities

1. Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Acts as a trusted advisor for business for all new business demands requiring technology or operations enablement / solution
• Prioritize business requests and co-create Business Roadmap with business segment
• Supports Biz Head for project pipeline, pre-project planning activities, QR prioritization
• Supports effective business change by building relationships with business leaders, technology and operational business partners

2. High Level Solutioning

• Develop high-level solution to illustrate feasibility of achieving target business outcomes
• Aligning high-level solution with organizational technology roadmap and strategy working in consultation with enterprise architecture and business technology services teams
• Work effectively with the business users and internal technology teams to ensure all aspects of the business requirement is defined and analysed
• Initiate the implementation plan for client projects. This will include all activities that the business needs to do to prepare for new operation process and technical components.

3. Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Acts as a trusted advisorfor business for all new business demands requiring technology or operations enablement / solution
• Prioritize business requests and co-create Business Roadmap with business segments
• Supports Biz Head for project pipeline, pre-project planning activities, QR prioritization
• Supports effective business change by building relationships with business leaders, technology and operational business partners

4. Change Implementation Planning & Management

• Undertake scoping and evaluation of new initiatives. Definingoverall considerations, including scalability, maintainability, cost,operations and technology principal risk to provide a recommendation
• Collaborate with cross-functional and technical teams including business analysts, solution architect, business technology services teams, and testing teams to define/clarify requirements
• Work with business technology services team on the smooth delivery of the solution
• Review Test Scenarios, help plan and support the user acceptance testing and help address any issues. Ensures that there is a business perspective on how the new operations and technical capabilities will be delivered to the business.
• Spot potential problems, recognize the risk impact and propose risk mitigation strategies.

5. Managing RUN

• Manage the communication and regular updates to business stakeholders on ‘critical’ production incidents and problems impacting customer and business operations
• Regular review with business on system stability, responsiveness, production incident, problem tickets including identification of root cause.
• Track for continuous improvement. Ensure early identification and resolution of challenges impacting BAU systems.
• Monitoring the fulfilment of service levels between client and the business segments and highlighting required actions to close gaps where needed

6. Sustainable Improvements

• Build a sustainable process for measuring benefits to ensure resources are aligned to business initiatives which provide the highest ROI.
• Improve systems by studying current practices; designing modifications.

Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/ business/ finance or equivalent

• Minimum 5-8 years of relevant banking and/or consulting experience
• Strong business domain knowledge in banking(Trade Finance)
• Strong quantitative, analytical, problem solving and process design skills that can translate analysis into solutions that meet business objectives
• Understanding of technology and operationalprocesses across functions / departments in the bank/market.
• Resourceful team player
• Familiar with change management processes and project management fundamentals
• Outstanding communications, influencing, negotiating and persuasion skills
• Passionate, diligent and resilient individual with ability to thrive in ambiguity
• Experience in scoping and evaluation – Defining overall considerations, including scalability, maintainability, cost,operations and technology principal risk to provide a recommendation