BA - Trade Finance

Job description

Position Purpose To function as a Business Analyst for Central BA Team catering to all applications within the domain such as Ivision, Conserto, Trade AI & interfacing applications. To completely manage the implementations with Business and other stakeholders. Needs to be involved in the requirements gathering, writing of the business requirements/user stories and functional specifications. Needs to liaise up with the development team, QA, coordinate UAT and be involved in production implementation. Improve the operational efficiency and cost savings. The candidate must be able to : • Clearly understand the client business requirements and provide optimal solutions. • Contribute to the analysis and drafting of business requirements and functional specifications, • Assist QA team ,execute SIT & support UAT cycles. • Should be well versed with the SDLC cycle, Agile methodology, quality and release control processes • Should have high-level knowledge to drive technical/security related changes with the IT teams. **Responsibilities** **Direct Responsibilities** Writing and Reviewing BRDs, FSDs, User Stories and working closely with Business and operations stakeholders for requirement analysis for Central Trade BA Team. Needs to be involved in the requirements gathering, writing of the business requirements, functional specifications and GAP analysis for business requirement. Needs to liaise up with the development team, QA, coordinate UAT and be involved in production implementation. Manage the project SDLC/ Agile governance and QA activities **Contributing Responsibilities** · Work closely with internal development, QA, IT security, architecture and other transversal teams. · Review overall solution to see the best and optimized fit into the applications old and new. · Work as a team player for topics spanning across projects, teams. · Would be responsible for effective effort estimation and costing. · Test strategy definition. · Qualification and User acceptance test tracking. · Support to Users, Development and Qualification teams, Deployment activities (set up parameters for implementation , scheduling process definition, environment management, go live contribution and follow up, analysis of incident raised during Qualification and UAT). · Would act as functional support for production issues / queries as required. · Functional and applicative training. · Functional documentation maintenance · Quality conscious and appropriate documentation complying with SDLC standards and agile project management practises. **Technical & Behavioral Competencies** The candidate should have strong functional skills and excellent communication skills. The job requires domain knowledge as under: 1. Good understanding of Banking domain. 2. In depth knowledge on Trade Finance (Letter of Credit, Documentary Collections, Guarantees). 3. Knowledge on Risk and Compliance related to Banking and Trade Finance. 4. Good understanding of the Trade Finance Swift MT / MX Messages. 5. Knowledge of IS0-20022 formats Besides, the following skills are also expected: 1. Clear organization and ability to manage projects 2. Service-oriented attitude and strong commitment to client satisfaction 3. Interpersonal skills, ability to consolidate action plans and report progress status 4. Capable of adapting to a new environment and to work under pressure towards tight deadlines 5. Analytical, lateral thinker and result-oriented person 6. Team player demonstrating self-initiative when necessary 7. Excellent verbal and written communication Experience required: •• Around 6-7 years overall experience in managing Trade finance products • Candidates with experience of managing Trade finance products as Business analyst will be preferred • Good Knowledge of Oracle Database (PL/SQL Queries), 3-tier architecture, Web application server, UNIX commands, hands-on PUTTY, WINSCP & API integrations • Graduate from a top University - B.E./B.Tech, Graduates, Post-graduate