Functional Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

A Functional Business Analyst who is Success-driven and Focused business analyst bringing extensive expertise of automating manual processes, diagnosing existing inefficiencies and proposing innovative solutions based on specified needs.

The Functional Business Analyst must have expertise in the cards and unsecured domain and excellent stakeholder management capability A Functional Business Analyst who is Success-driven and Focused business analyst bringing extensive expertise of automating manual processes, diagnosing existing inefficiencies and proposing innovative solutions based on specified needs.

The Functional Business Analyst must have expertise in the cards and unsecured domain and excellent stakeholder management capability.

Stakeholder and Communication Management:

• Manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, scope change, solutioning , risks and issues
• Continually manage stakeholder expectations through governance processes
• Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication on capability and solutions

Process and Delivery Execution:

• Ability to translate high-level requirements into detailed documentation within the organization's context.
• Ability to evaluate and analyze existing business processes, and uncover areas for improvements.
• Ability to envision and design end to end business processes, journeys and communicate and clarify requirements with developers.

·        Define detailed user stories based on business requirements, ensuring that they follow UOB's prescribed format. Ensure that user stories have sufficient details so that developers are able to estimate and work with them.

·        Define detailed business processes, spanning both online and offline aspects. Coordinate with various stakeholders in UOB to get detailed requirements, and ensure that they are met through proposed solution.

·        Ensure user stories are consistent and high-quality.

·        Actively participate in planning meetings between Product Owners and System analysts to explain the story requirements.

·        Work with the design team for requirements that require User Interface Design.

·        Consult Solution Architect or System Analyst for technical requirements.

·        Be available for Product Owner to discuss any dependencies or backlog topic. Assist the Product Owner in defining finer details of the product.

·        Assist on operational impact and ensure affected areas embed in operational readiness plan

·        Monitor and manage risks/issues related to scope creep

·        Ensure non-functional requirements are incorporated

·        Work with test manager and tester to translate business requirements into test scenarios

 Requirements:

Education:

·        Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field.

·        At least 6 years relevant experience preferably in a Finance Institution.

Essential:

·        10-12 years experience in Cards and Payment domain

·        Detail oriented.

·        Ability to translate high-level requirements into detailed documentation within the organization's context.

·        Ability to evaluate and analyze existing business processes, and uncover areas for improvements.

·        Ability to envision and design end to end business processes keeping an eye on the details.

·        Ability to gather critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful documentation.

·        Ability to communicate and clarify requirements with developers.

·        Ability to identify and clearly document dependencies.

Excellent functional / documentation skills

Key Domain/ Technical Skills

·        Cards lifecycle knowledge

·        Payments & channel knowledge (FAST/GIRO/PayNow/QR)

·        Stakeholder management and communication