Business Analyst - Trade Finance

• 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 for SIT & business users during UAT cycles
• Should be well versed with the SDLC cycle, Agile methodology, quality and release control processes
• Should have high-level technical know-how to be able to drive technical/security related changes with the IT teams

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

• 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.

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.

Besides, the following skills are also expected:
1. Clear organization and ability to manage projects2. Service-oriented attitude and strong commitment to client satisfaction3. Interpersonal skills, ability to consolidate action plans and report progress status4. Capable of adapting to a new environment and to work under pressure towards tight deadlines5. Analytical, lateral thinker and result-oriented person6. Team player demonstrating self-initiative when necessary7. Excellent verbal and written communication

Experience required:

• Around 5-7 years overall BFSI domain
• Candidates with experience of Trade finance products will be preferred]
• Good Knowledge of Oracle Database (PL/SQL Queries), 3-tier architecture, Web application server, UNIX commands, hands-on PUTTY, WINSCP.Graduate from a top University

Other/Specific Qualifications

• Certification in Trade Finance (Good to have)
• Good understanding of core banking, payments & accounting systems
• Working knowledge of Shell commands/batches, Linux/Unix commands