OMR Senior Business Analyst ( PMBA)

Position Purpose

Current position is under ALMT IT team scope to contribute in IT Business Analyst and Project Manager

( PMBA) capacity for development, enhancements, and maintenance & support activities for OMR application by efficiently utilizing continuous improvement and agile methodology. Immediate tasks would include but not restricted to

•         Communicate with business sponsors, owners, users, and other application teams to understand their roles / teams / tools.  Build relationships and be the primary contact point for ALMT IT settlement projects and other IT groups.     

•         Become deeply immersed and knowledgeable about core business functions, processes and workflows associated with assigned business areas and applications.

•         Using the Business Requirements document provided by the users, write a Functional Specifications document for vendor configuration, in house development and data migration.

•         Complete all other SDLC documentation as per IT Governance.

•         To perform functional tests ( integration, systems) and assist with user acceptance tests

•         To work closely with testers to ensure that the appropriate level of testing is completed prior to release of developed functionality.

•         In each release cycle, to demo newly developed functionality to the appropriate stakeholders during the development lifecycle and before release to production.

•         Secure sign-off from sponsors and key stakeholders on all documentation and testing.

•         To manage business feedback and create development tasks / specifications as appropriate.

•         To understand and master various aspects of trade life cycle elements and link it to application usage

•         Demonstrate strong knowledge on FX MM products particularly Interest Rate Swaps, Cross Currency Swaps, Loans & Deposits whilst executing the business projects.

•         Possess strong project management skills

•         Keep track and anticipate of changes in project requirements.

•         Basic knowledge of unix and good understanding of SQL to perform hands on operations on the product on day to day basis

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

•                     Prepare demand dashboard and plan project deliverables run the project end to end.

•                     Prepare functional specifications for developers and testers.

•                     Prepare test plans and conduct functional and integration Testing

•                     Contribute to the technical designing phase and document the design with UML diagrams and models.

•                     Create prototype for proof of concept and business requirements validations.

•                     Provide functional assistance to Development/Testing teams.

•                     Attend BA standup ,  mentoring junior BA team members, resolving their problems, team player

•                     Participate in peer reviews of Functional Specifications.

•                     Conduct user training sessions on applications and functionalities.

•                     Train others in order to ensure knowledge sharing and backup.

•                     Ensure that the project and organization standards are followed during various phases of software development lifecycle and day-to-day development work.

•                     Estimate efforts , prepare schedule of delivery and meet deadlines.

•                     To ensure production stability at all times, changes delivered are of  good quality, ensure critical  incidents are fixed on priority.

•                     Provide L3 Support. To participate in out-of-hours / daytime support as required

•                     To ensure all activities carried-out and solutions proposed, planned and delivered are compliant with organization policy guidelines.

•                     Ensure the project management governance is carried out as per IT Group standards

•                     Review, report, resolve, mitigate and escalate risks and issues as appropriate to stakeholders

Contributing Responsibilities

•                     Contribute towards innovation, suggest new practices to be implemented

•                     Contribute towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery

•                     Contribute towards recruitment efforts – both for the team as well as for the organization

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory Skills:

•                     10+ years Experience as a Business Analyst in an IT industry in the Finance domain.

•                     Knowledge of Capital Market activities, Financial Products, Financial Terminologies is a must.

•                     Problem solving.

•                     Good Understanding of Trade Life Cycle

•                     Thorough understanding of complete Software Development Lifecycle

•                     Self-motivated, good interpersonal skills and inclination to constantly upgrade on new technologies and frameworks.

•                     Problem solving, Good communication, good interpersonal skills and co-ordination activities, self-motivated, and inclination to constantly upgrade on new developments in the industry.

•                     Ability to understand business requirements easily and translate them into functional requirements.

•                     Capability to understand and analyze complex IT application and financial product structures

•                     Excellent documentation ability.

•                     Have experience in preparing requirement specifications and perform UAT.

•                     Strong skills on System analysis and preparation of data mappings from upstream to downstream.

•                     Good SQL Query writing skills and basic knowledge of UNIX commands.

Nice to have Skills:

•                     Knowledge or Experience with Treasury functions, Cash Reconciliation and business processes.

•                     Usage of SAP Business Objects from User perspective

•                     Knowledge of Devops

•                     Well versed with all Agile ceremonies