Vice President, System Analyst - Payment (JRI-6784)

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Japan Research Institute (JRI) Limited, a SMBC Group subsidiary, is seeking a senior System Analyst to lead mid-to-large scale payments projects in Asia Pacific. The role requires deep experience in financial services IT, strong leadership, and ability to govern the full SDLC from design to release.

You will collaborate with business analysts, solution architects and cross-functional teams to design, implement and test integrated remittance systems across regional platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of senior-level System Analyst experience in financial services.
• Strong domain expertise in corporate banking, cross-border payments, and payment system integrations.
• Proven experience managing full SDLC including design, source code governance, testing coverage, and release cycles.

Responsibilities

• Plan for design solutioning, testing and implementation activities with timelines and effort estimates with Delivery Manager.
• Discuss and work with business analyst to understand, analyse, validate user/business/system requirements.
• Drive technical/system requirements from abstract product vision to detailed system/technical requirements with solution architect.
• Perform functional impact analysis and risk assessment with technical leads.
• Design functional solutions and define I/F specifications and layout.
• Support testing activities with Test Manager, Test Lead and SMEs to ensure coverage.
• Prepare migration design and data mapping with cross-domain alignment.
• Provide user training and support to ensure effective system usage.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

SDLC

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Job description

The Japan Research Institute (JRI) Limited is a subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) Group. SMBC Group is a Tokyo-based bank holding company that is ranked among the largest 25 banks globally by assets under management. JRI provides comprehensive, highly value-added information services through the coordinated application of its 3 functions. i.e. information systems, consulting and think-tank. As a system integrator, JRI offers services in IT strategy planning, implementation and outsourcing to a broad range of industries and activities. JRI Singapore currently supports the overall IT functions of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) in Asia Pacific Region.

Responsibilities

Planning

• Plan for design solutioning, testing and implementation activities with timelines and effort estimates with Delivery Manager.

Business & Technical Requirements

• To discuss and work with business analyst to understand, analyse, validate user/business/system requirements to determine the project requirements.
• Drive Technical/System requirements from abstract product vision all the way to detailed system / technical requirements in collaboration with solution architect.
• System interactions for the process flows, event triggers, data handling, and user roles.

GAP & Fit Analysis

• Perform functional impact analysis and risk assessment to examine and evaluate existing vs. to-be processes in collaboration with technical leads.
• Fit-gap analysis on system functions.

Functional Design

• Design functional solutions based on user requirements and work with Technical Leads to determine and identify any technical constraints, technical design and limitations to the proposed solutions.
• Leads and collaborates with cross-functional and technical teams for a seamless integrated solution.
• Data mapping and transaction flow and error handling with collaboration with Technical leads.
• Analyze the impact on existing systems and clarify the affected systems, screens, forms, batches, data items.
• Organize data to be transferred to related systems and define I/F specifications and I/F layout.
• Define the functional requirements of the system, including report types, data sources, and output formats.
• Understand class diagrams and sequence diagrams, and examine naming conventions, relationship expressions, and consistency.

Non-functional Requirements

• Predict future transaction rates and throughput for online and batch processing from past data.
• Evaluate each server's hardware and software requirements and plan for scalability.
• Analyze system traffic to assess network design, traffic calculations, and bandwidth needs.

Operational Requirements

• Define key principles for operations and monitoring.
• Organize SLAs and recommend appropriatebackup, recovery, and maintenance.
• Utilize tools to set operational schedules.

Documentation

• Document functional specifications of the proposed solutions, conduct walkthrough and obtain user confirmation on the requirements and buy-in of the proposed solutions.
• Obtain official sign off from user.

Requirement Traceability

• Responsible for documenting final technical artefacts and ensuring complete traceability to original requirement.

System Configuration

• Responsible for software configuration documentation and setup based on sign-off solution.

System Testing

• Support test activities by working in collaboration with Test manager, Test lead and Test Domain SME to ensure delivered solutions meet requirements and testing coverage.
• Assist Test manager & Test Lead in integration test and user acceptance test.
• Assist Test Manager during Defect triage to review, categorize, prioritize and assigning defects.
• Work with technical leads ( or Vendor ) to determine the root cause of defects.

Implementation plan

• Work in collaboration with all technical leads for all domains to include all systems ( integrated ) required setup including all system configurations and runbooks.

Migration Design & Data Mapping

• Work with Technical Lead on migration design & data mapping are correct cross-domain.
• Review with BA on all required reconciliations including both technical and functional.

User training

• Prepare training materials, conduct user training and support to end users to ensure that they are able to effectively use systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years of senior-level System Analyst experience in financial services, preferably in payments.
• Strong domain expertise in corporate banking, cross-border payments, and payment system integrations.
• Proven experience managing full SDLC including design, source code governance, testing coverage, and release cycles.
• Strong leadership, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
• Track record of leading complex multi-team, multi-vendor technology projects to successful completion.
• Ability to review and quality check deliverables (requirements definition documents, design documents, test specifications) to discover and correct deficiencies and errors
• Knowledge of the technical configuration and integration methods of remittance systems (API integration, message formats, middleware, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of financial industry regulations and compliance, and understanding of unique quality and security requirements