Senior Business Analyst (Temenos Transact, Payments)

Scope of projects:

• TEMENOS T24/TRANSACT Core Banking Platform, focused on assigned area of expertise
• Transversal topics involving other domains, with an impact on assigned area of expertise.

Role of the Senior Business Analyst:

• Provide functional expertise and relevant experience on TEMENOS T24/TRANSACT core banking product implementation and configuration
• Analyze gaps in functionality and processes between European and Asian sites and propose solutions to converge and align them into a common design.
• Analyze and structure new requirements with all stakeholders involved in order to propose to the organization the best way to deliver appropriate solutions and integrate them in the overall program;
• Lead the elaboration of a functional solution with business stakeholders and concerned IT teams
• Lead, with the support of technical teams, the definition of the solution and the implementation roadmap
• Drive the definition of use cases for Integration tests with testing team and for User Acceptance Test with end users
• Manage all the decision-making and analysis process allowing designing, validating the solution, and getting the necessary approvals in terms of architecture, IT risk and IT Security, budget and capacity planning.
• Coordinate the implementation from a project management perspective and ensure the WMIS Project governance is applied at each step
• Bring benefit to both the IT tools functionality and potential changes to operational processes affected.
• Ensure that every new solution implemented respects WMIS standards and allows for mutualization / reuse as much as possible between sites.
• Ensure all requirements are approached from a global perspective for all sites. Specific solution should only be considered to address regulatory, tax or accounting specific requirements

Responsibilities:

• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal third-parties to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: Functional requirements, Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, Screen and Interface designs, Business process designs
• Define requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, tasks and workflow analysis.
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans
• Serves as the conduit between the customer community and the technology teams through which requirements flow.
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates & methodology
• Collaborate with the team’s experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 10 years of experience in :
• Banking Industry, as a Business Analyst and/or as a “hands-on” Project Manager
• Expert knowledge and experience on TEMENOS T24/TRANSACT Core Banking platform for Wealth Management, understand the various flows and functions, familiar with system parameterization and configuration.
• Proficiency in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional & System Integration testing of banking and financial applications.
• Expert knowledge of at least one of these functional domains of core banking :
• Customer & Portfolio data, AA.Cash Accounts, Cash payments, AA.Deposits
• General Accounting and reporting, Credit (AA.Loans, Limits, Collateral), Taxation (FATCA, CRS, IRS871m).
• Securities processing and custody
• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, managers, subject matter experts and technical teams.
• Strong proficiency with Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Visio
• Fluent in SQL queries, API testing, data analysis and data modeling.
• Experience in Agile Scrum is a plus
• Familiar with project management tools as well as issue and release management, production and support (JIRA, Service Now, PPM tools, etc)