Business Application Analyst

Job Duties:

Business Requirement Analysis & Workshop Facilitation

• Organize and facilitate business workshops to collect and analyze requirements
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to prioritize and decompose requirements into detailed user stories
• Draft comprehensive Functional Specification documents with clear acceptance criteria
• Maintain traceability between business needs and technical implementation

Process Analysis & Change Management

• Analyze existing business processes and define optimized target processes
• Identify process gaps and transformation opportunities
• Define change management needs and support organizational adoption
• Ensure alignment between process redesign and business objectives

Data Analysis & System Integration

• Identify golden sources of data across the enterprise landscape
• Specify data mappings and transformations between systems
• Document data lineage and ensure data quality requirements
• Support data migration and reconciliation activities

Application Mapping & Impact Analysis

• Map application flows and dependencies within the PRICE ecosystem
• Assess project impacts on upstream and downstream system integrations
• Coordinate with technical teams to ensure seamless integration
• Maintain documentation of system interfaces and data flows

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication

• Maintain regular contact with developers to ensure requirements are well understood and correctly implemented
• Act as liaison between business users and technical teams
• Provide L3 functional support for complex issues
• Foster collaboration between business stakeholders, Product Owner, and development team

Testing Strategy & Quality Assurance

• Define comprehensive testing strategy aligned with project scope
• Contribute user scenarios for BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) activities
• Participate actively in integration testing
• Organize and conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions
• Assess functional change impacts on current production SLAs and OLAs

Production Deployment & Support

• Participate in production start-up activities and go-live preparation
• Define functional prerequisites for deployment and post-deployment validation
• Deliver user training sessions and create training materials
• Ensure post-production follow-up and provide ongoing functional support
• Monitor production performance and gather user feedback for continuous improvement

Knowledge Management & Team Enablement

• Build and maintain functional knowledge within the team in partnership with the PO
• Provide functional training and onboarding for new team members
• Maintain functional documentation and knowledge base for the PRICE application
• Research existing solutions to avoid duplication and promote reuse

Qualifications and Requirements:

5+years of experience as a Business Analyst in market finance, with specific expertise in Front Office (SALES)

Sales System:

• Sales Margin management (Mark-up, Sales credit, technical margin)
• Good knowledge of pre-trade trading workflows and RFQ (Request For Quote) systems capture
• Knowledge on Financial products (FX, RATES, BOND, EQUITY)

Trading Systems & Platforms:

• Knowledge of Front Office/Risk management systems and back Office (e.g., Orchestrade)
• Familiarity with the MarkitWire Platform
• Understanding of trading lifecycle from pre-trade through settlement
• Experience with external data sources like Bloomberg and Reuters/Refinitiv

Market Data & Standards:

• Relevant experience with FPML (Financial Products Markup Language) format
• Expertise in static market data including reference data, price data, and market conventions
• Knowledge of data types, sources, and uses within financial systems

Technical Proficiency:

• Familiar with AI Spec Driven Development approach
• Knowledge in Python for analytics and automation
• Proficiency in SQL and Excel for data manipulation and analysis
• Knowledge of DevOps practices (GitOps, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (Elasticsearch, Kibana)
• Ability to work with complex data structures and perform data quality analysis
• Experience with Jira or similar issue-tracking systems
• Proficient in software development life cycle(SDLC)
• Strong appetite to learn both functional and technical domains
• Willing to provide L3 support when required

Education

• Master’s degree in relevant specialties (IT, finance).
• Minimum 5 years working experience in relevant roles.

Interested applicants please send your resume in MS Words format to joanna.tan@ambition.com.sg and attn it with subject Tan Joanna (R1104661)

Short listed candidates will be notified

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