Intermediate Business Analyst

Job Description:

• 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.

Requirements:

• Candidate should have minimally 5 years of experience in relevant activities.

Mandatory:

• Skilled in Data analysis using database queries (Sql/Oracle/Sybase),TSQL and JOINS
• Good working understanding of Microservices and Swagger UI
• Basic knowledge on UNIX Commands and Scripting
• Hand on experience of soucing data from various application covering various data format like CIBML /Kafka messages/Json…
• Strong understading on the CFT concepts
• Stong knowledge on the XSLT transformation and tools like Oxygen OS
• Desirable to have Messaging Queue concepts and tools like Hermes
• Basic understanding on the tools like Grafana,KIBANA,EJB
• Good understanding on GIT,JIRA, Agile project management concept.

Functional:

• 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 .
• Strong 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.
• Good understanding of the data sourcing from various front office application like kondor ,Summit, OT ..
• Experience of capital market processes, e.g. Pricing, Sales/Trader workflow, etc

Other Professional Skills and Mindset:

• 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