Senior Business Analyst (Non-IT) – 12-month contract Contract NEW

At Allegis Global Solutions we’re proud to be the leader in global talent solutions. We draw upon decades of industry expertise to develop innovative tools, products, processes and strategies focused on outcome. Moreover, we’re incredibly proud to have built a culture that empowers our people to make their mark while making deep connections that will last a lifetime. With our passion and culture for talent, we are truly transforming the way the world acquires talent.

Our Client is one of the leading global wealth managers with strong investment banking and asset management capabilities. Founded in 1856, they have expanded to be a global force employing over 45,000 people in 50 countries. With new leadership, a new strategy and a streamlined global organization, they are set for growth.

The Finance Change department supports change activities across CFO in the APAC region. In addition, the Singapore based team is involved in global initiatives in conjunction with peer groups in London and New York. The change activities involve process, organisational, and technology improvement projects aimed at improving the CFO division’s ability to support the business areas.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of the changes required to the CFO Bond, Equity, Warrant subledger and posting engines.
• Manage stakeholders and ensure that issues are / barriers are resolved in timely basis or escalated if not.
• Ability to frame and propose approach with stakeholders and negotiate and agree next steps to remain on track for delivery.
• Provide status reports of workstream progress and RAIDS to be tracked as part of delivery
• Completing solution design to determine the CFO system architecture to be deployed for the specific requirements of the infrastructure initiative (Recommended CFO system/process architecture).
• Determining the CFO requirements and the solution requirements through systems set up, configuration and development (Deliverables include Business Requirement Documents).
• Gather detailed data and functional requirements to support CFO processes, document in clear, concise, and comprehensive manner, and articulate to IT teams for their understanding.
• Conduct working group meetings, business requirement gathering workshops and UAT status update meetings with CFO users and IT teams.
• Execute against the test plans and co-ordinate the execution of user acceptance testing by CFO user groups involved (Deliverables include Test plan, Test cases with expected results, Defect register and resolution plan).
• Determining and coordinating the execution of system deployment in a production environment.
• Provide prompt and concise status updates to project managers, including accurate progress updates and escalation of risks, issues, and dependencies in respective areas of responsibilities.

Essentials Skills and Qualifications:

• 10+ years’ experience in a Financial Accounting or Product Control Line role in the Financial Services industry and/or a Finance Change role in the Financial Services industry.
• Private Banking and/or Investment Banking product knowledge (Deposits, Lending, Structured Deposits, Bonds, Equities) and the CFO processes typically required to support such processes.
• Strong communication (written, verbal, presentational) skills.
• Ability to independently perform business and gap analysis and willing to reach out to multiple unknown areas to close out information gaps in order to complete business analysis.