Business Analyst

The business analyst is responsible for analyzing and modeling existing business processes. The goal of business process analysis is to understand and document current business procedures and identify areas for improvement. A thorough understanding of the current state of the organization is necessary prior to recommending changes related to implementing a new business solution. The business analyst uses modeling tools to document the current state of business processes as well as the desired future state. The business analyst is responsible for the knowledge transfer of business implications to the application/database developers and project managers.

Key Accountabilities

• Business Requirements finalization and defining the scope of the project
• Gap Analysis
• Solution Design: Propose solutions based on business requirements and work with Developers/Testers to implement the solution
• Support the team during the Unit Testing, SIT and UAT
• Quality Management: Ensures that all tasks carried out comply with procedures, mandatory quality standards and agreed testing standards and strategy
• Supervisory responsibilities: 
• Work with a team of BA outside project work
• Mentoring Junior BA within the team
• Key clients (internal and external)

Job Duties & responsibilities

• Performs feasibility analysis, scope identification for projects, and works with the project management team to prioritizes deliverables, and negotiate on product functionalities.
• Extract the AS-IS processes from the business users and work the business requirements with the customer business users
• Analyze the AS-IS Scenarios and design the TO-BE business process flow with the Solution Architect
• Working with Solution Architect during the design and blueprinting phases
• Working with the business team for business use case development
• Review the details of the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and translate it into functional specifications.
• Provides analytic support by coordinating data extraction from various databases and data interpretation.
• Ensure that right practices are being followed while documenting requirements, by putting governance in place across different business domains. Review the requirement documents generated by the team and suggest changes required if any.
• Partners with development and analytic teams to provide reporting on software solutions.
• Participates in Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Functionality Testing.

Required Experience

• At least 8-10 years of working experience in IT industry with proven experience in eliciting requirements and testing
• At least 2-3 years working experience in digital banking domain
• Strong analytical and logical reasoning skills.
• Familiarity with key core banking technologies
• Experience with SQL, Web Services, Sharepoint, Jira and Confluence
• Candidates with operational experience and technical background, will have an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)