Direct Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the business/operational objectives of the new business requirements are well defined
• Performing systematic business analysis
• Validating business requirements to align with business/operations needs as well as IT architecture and security standards.
• Designing functional solutions & user workflows and documenting Functional Specifications.
• Develop SIT/UAT/NRT scope and approach. To guide the Testing team in writing test scenarios/cases and review to get signoff from stakeholders.
• Rationalize test cases when needed to match with available resources and target timeline.
• Validate SIT test results produced by the testing team to sign off.
• Assist users in planning/executing UAT, analyzing defects, and defining defects priority for fix delivery by the development team.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies:

• Strong functional & business analysis skills with the ability to communicate and bridge between business/operations & IT.
• Good functional experience in Supply chain/Trade/Electronic invoicing applications is preferred.
• Good team player with great commitment and attitude.
• Good communication and coordination skills among multiple teams that are cross-cultural and cross-country.
• Ability to work independently.
• Familiar with standard formats such as XML, SWIFT, EDIFACT, ISO20022 & data transformations.
• Hands-on database SQL knowledge.
• Experience in functional solutions design for large web applications and microservices, Well-versed with integrations and APIs, REST. Designing functional solutions for high volume, low latency, and high availability and performance requirements of web applications.
• IT Design and development exposure is a definite plus.
• Good understanding and knowledge of key security subjects (SSL/TLS, PKI, Certificates) and user authentication solutions.

Specific Qualifications:

• 5 - 8 years of experience in a Corporate Banking IT environment with the last 2-3 years as an IT Business Analyst, preferably in the domain of Trade Financing or supply chain Financing.
• Worked in Agile and Waterfall SDLC mix project delivery environment with a large number of stakeholders and users involved.