Senior Business Analyst - Front Office

Project description

Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world's 10th largest bank by total assets.

Their Singapore center is the 2nd largest IT setup (after Paris head office) for their worldwide business. They work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:

• Envisioning and preparing the Bank's futures information systems.
• Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large-scale development projects.
• Providing premium In-house Banking applications,
• This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.

We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

We are seeking a talented Business Analyst in front office, project mode as well as maintenance, and to support the "run the bank" function. It requires a deep understanding of the nature of business operations, timing of activities & data flowing through internal and external systems. The build and support team continuously works with business users, infrastructure engineers and system managers.

The Business analyst will work on pre-trade application used to pre-book and book Rates deals. Key activities include developing features that facilitate RFQ workflows between Sales and Traders, enabling efficient communication and deal negotiation. The role involves implementing real-time pricing, deal validation logic, and ensuring seamless integration with downstream booking systems. Close collaboration with Sales and Trading stakeholders is essential to enhance the RFQ experience and support the complete deal lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Business Requirement Analysis & Workshop Facilitation:

Organize and facilitate business workshops to collect and analyze requirements

Collaborate with the Product Owner to prioritize and decompose requirements into detailed user stories

Draft comprehensive Functional Specification documents with clear acceptance criteria

Maintain traceability between business needs and technical implementation

Process Analysis & Change Management

Analyze existing business processes and define optimized target processes

Identify process gaps and transformation opportunities

Define change management needs and support organizational adoption

Ensure alignment between process redesign and business objectives

Data Analysis & System Integration:

Identify golden sources of data across the enterprise landscape

Specify data mappings and transformations between systems

Document data lineage and ensure data quality requirements

Support data migration and reconciliation activities

Application Mapping & Impact Analysis:

Map application flows and dependencies within the PRICE ecosystem

Assess project impacts on upstream and downstream system integrations

Coordinate with technical teams to ensure seamless integration

Maintain documentation of system interfaces and data flows

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication:

Maintain regular contact with developers to ensure requirements are well understood and correctly implemented

Act as liaison between business users and technical teams

Provide L3 functional support for complex issues

Foster collaboration between business stakeholders, Product Owner, and development team

Testing Strategy & Quality Assurance:

Define comprehensive testing strategy aligned with project scope

Contribute user scenarios for BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) activities

Participate actively in integration testing

Organize and conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions

Assess functional change impacts on current production SLAs and OLAs

Production Deployment & Support:

Participate in production start-up activities and go-live preparation

Define functional prerequisites for deployment and post-deployment vali