We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Functional Business Analyst with expertise in the Data and Finance domain.
The ideal candidate will play a key role in bridging the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams by gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements for data-centric and financial systems.
Mandatory Skill(s)
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business or a related field;
- Must have work experience in Corporate banking/Financial market domain;
- Must have 15+ years of experience in implementing full end to end projects for finance applications such as SAP ERP, Enterprise Budget, Financial Consolidation;
- Must have proficiency in data management and financial systems;
- Experience in handling large sets of financial data, detailed data analysis and data profiling;
- Knowledgeable in accounting standards and regulatory requirements;
- Exceptional quantitative, analytical, problem-solving, and process design skills, with the ability to translate analysis into practical solutions that align with business objectives;
- Able to facilitate and drive workshop discussions with business and technology teams;
- Strong communication skills, prepare high quality and concise presentation slides to senior management;
- Strong stakeholders engagement skills, self driven and proactive;
- Adaptive to different area in the data and finance space, open to learning new Gen AI technology.
Desirable Skill(s)
- Certification such as PMI-PBA, CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) and others;
Responsibilities
- Analyse and document the "to be" business and operations processes based on the agreed requirements and / or function points, perform impact assessment;
- Liaise with Business Unit Specialists to elicit and review business requirements;
- Collaborate with IT teams to ensure non-functional requirements effectively incorporate security requirements;
- Analyse and define detailed functional and non-functional requirements based on business requirements;
- Transition requirements to System Analysts, ensuring clarity and completeness;
- Monitor and manage risks /issues related to requirements and scope;
- Major deliverables are Data mapping specifications and Data Lineage, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document;
- Review test plan and functional test scope prepared by testing team;
- Support SIT and UAT, including defect prioritisation, tracking and resolution
- Write business functional release notes and contribute to deployment plan;
- Work with Test Manager to translate business requirements into test scenarios;
- Perform impact assessment and estimation for project and change requests;
- Manage Scope creep and Change Request.
If you are interested in this role, click on the “Apply to this job” button below or you could also write in with your CV to Meenakshi Saklani at meenakshi.saklani@sciente.com quoting the job title.
