Position Purpose
Current position is under ALMT IT team scope to contribute in IT Business Analyst and Project Manager
( PMBA) capacity for development, enhancements, and maintenance & support activities for OMR application by efficiently utilizing continuous improvement and agile methodology. Immediate tasks would include but not restricted to
•Communicate with business sponsors, owners, users, and other application teams to understand their roles / teams / tools. Build relationships and be the primary contact point for ALMT IT settlement projects and other IT groups.
•Become deeply immersed and knowledgeable about core business functions, processes and workflows associated with assigned business areas and applications.
•Using the Business Requirements document provided by the users, write a Functional Specifications document for vendor configuration, in house development and data migration.
•Complete all other SDLC documentation as per IT Governance.
•To perform functional tests ( integration, systems) and assist with user acceptance tests
•To work closely with testers to ensure that the appropriate level of testing is completed prior to release of developed functionality.
•In each release cycle, to demo newly developed functionality to the appropriate stakeholders during the development lifecycle and before release to production.
•Secure sign-off from sponsors and key stakeholders on all documentation and testing.
•To manage business feedback and create development tasks / specifications as appropriate.
•To understand and master various aspects of trade life cycle elements and link it to application usage
•Demonstrate strong knowledge on FX MM products particularly Interest Rate Swaps, Cross Currency Swaps, Loans & Deposits whilst executing the business projects.
•Possess strong project management skills
•Keep track and anticipate of changes in project requirements.
•Basic knowledge of unix and good understanding of SQL to perform hands on operations on the product on day to day basis
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
• Prepare demand dashboard and plan project deliverables run the project end to end.
• Prepare functional specifications for developers and testers.
• Prepare test plans and conduct functional and integration Testing
• Contribute to the technical designing phase and document the design with UML diagrams and models.
• Create prototype for proof of concept and business requirements validations.
• Provide functional assistance to Development/Testing teams.
• Attend BA standup , mentoring junior BA team members, resolving their problems, team player
• Participate in peer reviews of Functional Specifications.
• Conduct user training sessions on applications and functionalities.
• Train others in order to ensure knowledge sharing and backup.
• Ensure that the project and organization standards are followed during various phases of software development lifecycle and day-to-day development work.
• Estimate efforts , prepare schedule of delivery and meet deadlines.
• To ensure production stability at all times, changes delivered are of good quality, ensure critical incidents are fixed on priority.
• Provide L3 Support. To participate in out-of-hours / daytime support as required
• To ensure all activities carried-out and solutions proposed, planned and delivered are compliant with organization policy guidelines.
• Ensure the project management governance is carried out as per IT Group standards
• Review, report, resolve, mitigate and escalate risks and issues as appropriate to stakeholders
Contributing Responsibilities
• Contribute towards innovation, suggest new practices to be implemented
• Contribute towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery
• Contribute towards recruitment efforts - both for the team as well as for the organization
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Mandatory Skills:
• 10+ years Experience as a Business Analyst in an IT industry in the Finance domain.
• Knowledge of Capital Market activities, Financial Products, Financial Terminologies is a must.
• Problem solving.
• Good Understanding of Trade Life Cycle
• Thorough understanding of complete Software Development Lifecycle
• Self-motivated, good interpersonal skills and inclination to constantly upgrade on new technologies and frameworks.
• Problem solving, Good communication, good interpersonal skills and co-ordination activities, self-motivated, and inclination to constantly upgrade on new developments in the industry.
• Ability to understand business requirements easily and translate them into functional requirements.
• Capability to understand and analyze complex IT application and financial product structures
• Excellent documentation ability.
• Have experience in preparing requirement specifications and perform UAT.
• Strong skills on System analysis and preparation of data mappings from upstream to downstream.
• Good SQL Query writing skills and basic knowledge of UNIX commands.
Nice to have Skills:
• Knowledge or Experience with Treasury functions, Cash Reconciliation and business processes.
• Usage of SAP Business Objects from User perspective
• Knowledge of Devops
• Well versed with all Agile ceremonies