AVP - IT Business Analyst (Credit card domain)

Role & responsibilities

• Lead, gather, develop, coordinate, and maintain business requirements for various projects and/or systems from initial phase to final implementation, assuring requirements meet standards.
• Participate in development of functionality by authoring documentation, running training sessions, and conducting demos.
• Assist in the development of project definitions, cost/benefit and risk analysis, work plans, progress reports, and presentations.
• Experience in Analyzing requirements, working with business to conceptualize and defined detailed Business requirements.
• Identify, assess, and document business requirements, recommending business priorities, and advising business on options, risks, and costs.
• Conduct research to determine if solutions to business requirements currently exist within or outside the business unit, and if not, whether new solutions are feasible. • Write technical design documents, use cases, work with the business and other IT areas to facilitate all phases of a project life cycle.
• Facilitating the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders.
• Facilitating design sessions with the implementation team to define the solution.
• Analyze impact of proposed solution across the business, develop use cases to explain/ demonstrate business requirements/ specifications to IT team, and contribute a business or process perspective during design reviews.
• Develop & Manage System Testing / User Acceptance Testing.
• Assist IT and business teams to ensure requirements are translated to test plans.
• Assist Quality Management team to ensure that requirements documentation can be easily translated into test plans, and ensure that the proper testing plans have been completed.
• Troubleshoot & Report system performance and functionality problems.
• Producing executive level reports and presentations on health of project delivery and the financial status of portfolio.
• Working knowledge of Project Finances. (Budget, Actuals, Variances, Capex, Opex etc)

Preferred candidate profile

• Minimum 5 years of experience in business process engineering business system analysis and working through the SDLC.
• Excellent functional knowledge of Credit Cards, Merchant Business, Personal Loans. • Experience in Digital Paperless Solutions Implementation.
• Strong requirements gathering skills (Interviewing business users and functional leaders).
• Experience in systems development life cycle in Agile / waterfall development environment.
• Experience writing functional requirements specifications (FRS) & Data interface specifications.
• Experience working at program level and coordination of deliverables across multiple projects.
• Experienced in MS Project.
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written.
• Strong experience with using SQL and creating database queries.
• Experience in defining use cases and test cases for projects.