Senior Functional Analyst – Core Banking

Nair Systems is currently looking for Senior Functional Analyst – Core Banking for our UAE operations with the following Skill set and terms & conditions. 

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Review and validate end-to-end financial workflows within the Finacle Core Banking system, ensuring they align with the bank's accounting policies, chart of accounts, and reporting requirements.

Prepare, document, and execute functional test cases covering Finance-related scenarios including General Ledger (GL) postings, account reconciliation, period-end closing, and financial reporting outputs.

Verify the accuracy of accounting entries generated by Finacle across all banking products and transactions — including Loans, Deposits, Payments, and Cards — ensuring correct debit/credit treatment and GL mapping.

Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as a key Finance function representative, reviewing test results and providing formal sign-off on finance-critical scenarios.

Work closely with the migration programme team to review functional design documents, system configurations, and product programmes from a Finance and accounting perspective.

Identify and log functional gaps, accounting discrepancies, or workflow deviations discovered during testing, and follow through to resolution with the technical and implementation teams.

Validate that financial reports generated from Finacle — including regulatory reports, management accounts, and statutory statements — are complete, accurate, and consistent with the bank's requirements.

Support parallel-run activities during migration by comparing outputs from the legacy system against Finacle to identify and resolve discrepancies.

Liaise with the Finance team, Operations, and the Core Banking migration team to ensure all finance function requirements are captured, communicated, and addressed in the system.

Contribute to the preparation of test plans, test scripts, and sign-off documentation as required by the migration programme governance framework.

Assist in training and knowledge-sharing sessions to familiarise Finance team members with Finacle workflows and processes post go-live.

Prepare ad hoc reports and updates on UAT progress, open issues, and finance readiness status for senior management as required.