ROLE
Business Analyst is key in defining, managing, and implementing changes within the organisation. Business Analyst must elicit, analyse, refine, validate and formally document business requirements, so that an optimal solution to the requirement can be identified and implemented. For smaller initiatives the Business Analyst will also play the role of Project Manager.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Requirements Gathering:
- Elicits requirements from stakeholders, applying effective elicitation methods/ standards/tools.
- Analyses and validates requirements using a systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving.
- Conducts impact assessment to identify the as-is processes, systems, and the future processes, systems and structures.
- Performs data analysis to cleanse & standardize data and to ensure data consistency and quality.
- Maintains relationships with stakeholders and obtains formal signoff of all requirement documentation.
- Liaises with service providers to ensure understanding of requirements and limitations of solutions.
- Coach and mentor junior business analyst
Solution Assessment and Validation:
- Works closely with the Architecture team to ensure solutions are optimal.
- Facilitates workshops sessions with internal and external stakeholders to drive out solution options and works closely with them to complete solution design documents.
- Supports functional and integration testing.
Change Management and Implementation Support:
- Supports Change Management activities by providing information as required to facilitate effective communications.
- Provides project support to the impacted teams during implementation phases, including answering queries, trouble shooting, liaison with service provider, providing regular reporting.
- Contributes to project management processes, including status reporting, risk, issue, change, compliance management.
- For smaller projects acts as the project manager as well as BA to deliver the project.
GENERAL CANDIDATE ATTRIBUTES:
- Has strong interpersonal skills, able to communicate effectively and proactively with external and internal stakeholders.
- Understands defined Project Management methodologies and frameworks.
- Experience in working as a business analyst within the asset management or wealth management industry would be an advantage.
- Familiar with Asian local market and regulatory practice.
- Is self-motivated, self-driving and independent.
- Attentive to detail and able to handle ambiguity.
- Experienced in using business analyst methods such as flow charting, requirements capturing, stakeholder analysis, use cases, brainstorming, solution prototyping, and traceability.
- Experience in Agile tools-Jira, Confluence etc
DOMAIN SPECIFIC ATTRIBUTES:
- Working knowledge in portfolio management, performance & attribution, risk modeling, pre/post trade compliance, liquidity management, trade execution and other buy side trade life cycle and monitoring processes.
- Working experience in major asset classes and associated analytics.
- Strong foundation in buy side enterprise data model including portfolio structure, security reference data, market data, pricing, transactions & position, finance and product data.
- Good understanding of Middle Office and Back Office outsourcing arrangements
