Senior Business Analyst

at  WEPLUS PTE LTD

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or relevant fields.
• At least more than 8 years of experience in the banking IT field (private banking).
• At least more than 5 years of experience working on Regulatory topics.
• Good knowledge on Private banking operations and financial products.
• Good understanding of project lifecycle and experience in functional and technical specification.
• Highly analytical, able to investigate, troubleshoot and determine issues at root cause.
• Experience in working with large distributed IT teams.
• Mandatory experience on any of the given topics: Tax Regulatory, Performance topics , German Tax reportings, Client Tax Statement Reporting, AEOI/CRS, FATCA, IRS871m.
• Knowledge of private banking operations and financial products.
• Knowledge on Banking systems (similar to Olympic, TRANSACT, AAA).
• IT experience: general knowledge (SQL).
• Excel (example: how to do vlookup, creating pivots).
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in multi-cultural environment.
• Good presentation skills to discuss/communicate directly with Europe/Asia business users.
• Must be able to work and collaborate with other team members – both Business and IT.
• Must be able to work on flexible hours (weekends, European hours) during tax reporting period.

Good to Have:

• Organization and management of tests (SIT / Non-regression, UAT).
• Methodology (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall).
• JIRA, Confluence and Release Management Tools.
• Knowledge on Reporting systems (similar to EasyTax, FiTax, SECTRAS, WM Daten, SIX).
• Knowledge on different German Tax reports for Private banking clients.
• Exposure to applications revolving around: Client Management Systems, Data warehouse, Batch processing of reports.

• Mandatory experience in topics or any of the topic related to Tax Regulatory on any of the following: German Tax, Client Tax Statement Reporting, AEOI/CRS, FATCA, IRS871m - in order to advise or challenge - requirements given functionally and solution proposition by the DEV Team.
• Gather the requirements from End Users, Product Owner.
• Write DFS (Detailed Functional specifications) / GFS (General Functional specifications) or user stories and confirm the understanding with the developers.
• Perform analysis with the PO or BA’s of other applications squads/teams when involved in multi-systems features and interfaces.
• Work with developers on system design and development/unit testing.
• Work with the testing team to review SIT strategy, test cases and results to ensure quality of delivery and conduct SIT to ensure quality of delivery.
• Support UAT (reproduce issues, monitoring, fixing with the team).
• Support Project delivery and ensure requirements are in-place in Production.
• Assist the Project Manager and/or DEV team on any governance, security or architecture related follow-up or deliverables. A technical-functional knowledge is required in order to achieve this.
• Assists stakeholders in diagnosing problems and recognizing issues. Takes time to help them identify critical connections, consequences, and alternatives.
• Recognizes typical as well as complex and unusual issues, and actions needed to advance the decision-making process. Recommends possible solutions.
• Organize and run dedicated meetings or committees.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal third parties to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artefacts as needed: GFS, DFS, Business process design, minutes, review and validation with Sponsors, presentation etc.
• Analyze gaps in functionality and processes between European and Asian sites and propose solutions to converge and align them into a common design.
• Be the liaison between the Project Manager (and Business side) and Technology teams.
• Participate to the full development lifecycle including design, estimation, planning, development support, test support, release, implementation & guarantee support.
• Support on PM & SM activities on need basis.Flexible to take additional responsibilities.