Regulatory IT Business Analyst

at  WEPLUS PTE LTD

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s in Business Administration or other management fields.
• 10-12 years of work experience within the financial services industry and/or regulatory reporting focus.
• Strong understanding of Capital Market deal flow from pricing to booking, risk management and back office, especially on FICC instruments – FX, Deposits, Rates, Options, derivatives and others.
• Good to have product and processing workflow knowledge of Investment Banking and Corporate Banking.
• Experience with integration of technical projects at a global level preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple project across various topics.
• Experience working with internal and external technical teams/vendors.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
• Ability to manage conflicting requests and set expectations to both senior management and individual contributors.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills in front-office setting.
• Some international travel may be required.
• Knowledge of APAC banking regulatory environment (Plus).
• Problem solving attitude.
• Experience in banking environment and good understanding on banking IT ecosystems.
• Good Communication skills in English and ability to conduct meetings and presentation in client, business and management facing situations in order to effectively communicate with English-speaking stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to clearly specify topics, understand their priority and criticality and accordingly escalate.

ROLE SUMMARY

The APAC GM & ALMT IT TP Engineering group runs Trade Processing and Regulatory Projects both regional and global for Global Market and ALMT business and operations.

Main responsibilities for the candidate would be to:

• Functional expert on Asia region regulatory reporting requirements including OTC Transactions Reporting to APAC regulators like ASIC, MAS, HKMA, JFSA.
• Strong functional knowledge on GM business and regulatory regime in APAC.
• Build strong relationship with APAC business and other support teams including Operations and Finance.
• Bring expertise on business data and reporting solutions with a strong focus on delivering strategic solution to increase efficiency & automation and enhance control thereby reducing risk.
• Develop a clear vision of the target processes including innovation / digital as the case may be.

An ideal candidate would come with 5 or above years of experience working in Investment Banking and regulatory reporting domain as an analyst.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build a strong delivery culture and harness strong relationship with business partners and other technology partners.
• Functional expert on the domain, conduct end to end studies and architecture and solution definition.
• Act as a subject matter expert on the domains, perform analysis.
• Production support where intervention is required on a functional expertise level.
• Perform end-to-end tests, plan and coordinate UAT, change management and go-live support.
• Able to work in a matrix environment building a strong relationship with Regional and Central IT teams and clients.
• A team player, who is able to work in a diverse team and comes with an open mindset to learn and adapt.
• Contribute on project governance meetings and issues meeting minutes.
• Collaborate and follow up with development teams regionally/globally to establish strategic and deliverable IT solutions and ensure their timely delivery.
• Develop good communication channel and good working relationship with technology teams both global and those located in the firm’s captive center with ability to influence the teams to deliver APAC specific requirements.
• Pre-empt and escalate any risks/issues to project governance in a timely manner and where possible provide solution to mitigate challenges.
• Provide tactical solution to business in case of tight timelines and collaborate with different stake holders to provide strategic solution.
• Provide trainings to business users and production support teams before the functional project go-live and prepare support document on the wiki/SharePoint.
• Contribute to the team resource development. Effective transfer and share functional and technical knowledge amongst the team.
• Contribute to standardization, upgrade, consolidation of technologies/solutions.
• Perform analysis and recommend solution to meet the business requirements.
• Be cognizant of multiple facets relating to IT Security, production support, enterprise architecture roadmap whilst engaging with stakeholders on solution design.Coordinator and if required own regional or transversal challenges.