Senior Business Analyst

Onsite interview required - local candidates only

Must have Investment Banking domain in recent years.

We are looking for a Business Analyst with Agile Experience to join our Lending team, focusing on developing and enhancing the Lending platform for supporting FX Spots, FX Forwards, FX Futures and FX payments & settlements. Candidate will interact with business stakeholders, perform detailed analysis of requirements, and convert them into clear and concise requirements for development team. Candidate will interface on a regular basis with other teams including other internal IT teams across Wealth Management, BA teams, QA teams, and offshore development teams.

To be successful the role will require the individual to understand the banking technology landscape, and to offer creative solutions that integrate current capabilities and proprietary system builds.

• Apply functional expertise in a squad to achieve outcomes for customers and deliver business values.
• Help prioritize and set clear business goals and expectations around deliverables for the squad.
• Help squad understand the "What" by contributing domain knowledge.
• Help squad understand the "How" by translating requirements into technical specs and supporting information.
• Remove obstacles by engaging with stakeholders offline and creating shared understanding of handshakes and interfaces.
• Collaborate with multiple technology teams that are upstream and downstream to the application which include Data Warehouse, LoanIQ and firm’s GL system etc.
• Work as part of a banking Agile Squad.
• Work in Agile development methodologies, collaborating with business and technology teams located globally.
• Interact with business stakeholders, perform detailed analysis of requirements, and convert them into clear and concise requirements for development team.
• Write detailed user stories in JIRA, create other artifacts like workflow charts and diagrams, writing solution requirements Specifications in Agile environment.
• Work closely with QA team to review their test cases and assist in UAT with Business stakeholders.
• Strong communication and Interpersonal skills.

• 8+ years of proven experience as a Business Analyst.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience working as a proxy for the product owner role.
• 2+ years of practical experience with JIRA or other ALM tools to create a productive, high quality development environment.
• Proven experience working with partners, stakeholders, Business users, and IT teams across geography and time zones. Also, ability to lead project’s vision.

• Working knowledge of financial markets, lending-based products and Wealth Management.
• Working knowledge of financial accounting and treasury functions.
• Experience in analyzing product level or large initiatives.
• Experience in working as a Scrum Master.
• Understanding of loan origination, accounting and payment & settlement processing.
• Understanding of cross currency exposures and mitigation techniques.

• Minimum BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.