Trade finance Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Serve as a liaison between Technology, Product leads, and Operations Stakeholders.
• A keen eye for detail with ability to influence stake holders with a view to drive consensus.
• Assist in requirements creation, scope definition and priorities.
• Create Epics, stories and keeping the documentation up-to-date
• Drive creation of detailed functional specifications with AS-IS process flows and target state processes.
• Provide functional support throughout the project lifecycle, from requirements/functional specs to reviewing SIT and UAT test cases, and supporting all the testing phases.
• Partner with the development teams to facilitate the build effort (e.g. ensuring build teams understanding of the specifications).
• Manage changes to requirements per process
• Develop use cases, and partner with the business to ensure sign-off on all requirements, testing and implementation
• Facilitate implementation of new functionality through training sessions, demonstrations, and the development of appropriate documentation.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12+ years of relevant Business Analysis experience
• Experience obtaining requirements from business users and subject matter experts, reviewing business priorities, and/or analyzing options & risks.
• Trade Finance domain Experience is a plus
• Ability to write and create detailed business and functional requirements
• Ability to lead a team of BAs to deliver functional solutions for business problems
• Experience creating functional system requirements specifications
• Pro-actively lead/participate in design/solution architecting of target state
• Ability to interface directly with Senior Business Stakeholders and operation users.
• Well versed with MS Excel, Jira, Mind Maps and SQL.
• Should be Detail-oriented, strong analytical and communication skills are a must.
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of information, and a curiosity to ask appropriate questions to fully develop business and functional requirements.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle
• Agile experience
• Understating of programing languages like Java, Python will be added advantage.