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