Senior Business Analyst – Trade Finance, Transaction Banking Permanent

Responsibilities:

• Act as a liaison between the business users and operations and the technical team;
• Work with IT and operation teams, and other stakeholders to deliver system solutions for the Trade Finance;
• Conduct and/or participate in the requirement gathering, solution design and formulation of an overall solution design;
• Analyze business processes, gaps in capabilities, as well as appropriate data sources, interfaces and process changes required to address capability gaps;
• Provide advice and counsel related to technology or operations of the business, ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defined and agreed end-plan;
• Review the technical/functional specification together with delivery teams;
• Ensure the overall quality of requirement documents, functional specifications and other supporting documents meet the bank’s standards;.
• Participate with the business with the on-boarding UAT, including test cases preparation, planning, communication, and close tracking of activities.

Requirements :

• Significant experience in Business Analyst role preferably in Trade Finance and Trade Finance domain areas;
• Sound knowledge of the FO to BO trade flow, including Market and Credit Risk Management, Middle Office, Operations and Finance activities;
• Bachelor’s degree (in Science, Computers, Information Technology or Engineering);
• Experience in Trade Services (LC/Guarantees/Bills/Open Accounts, Supply Chain etc.);
• Demonstrated ability to effectively use complex analytical, interpretive and problem-solving techniques;
• Proven interpersonal, diplomatic and influencing skills;
• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication;
• Proficiency in writing database queries would be an added advantage.