Your new company
You’ll be working for a banking company who is looking for a Senior Business Analyst. This will be a 1 year contract role in Singapore.

Your new role

• Within Financial Markets Regulatory programme, you will be involved in critical regulatory projects, working in a dynamic global team with software engineers, other project managers, business stakeholders, Operational partners and other technical experts globally.
• Perform in-depth analysis around key requirements of the project and regulatory changes (Trade Reporting Regulatory projects).
• Working with technology teams to design the reconciliation solution and process, implement the reconciliation tool into the architecture.
• Defining and establishing the necessary source Trade Repository feeds into the reconciliation tool.
• Operationalizing the analysis and categorization of breaks (second half of year).
• Articulate the Scope / requirements in standard documents/process flow diagrams/use case diagrams etc to secure signoff from stakeholders.
• Participation in industry forums / calls and interpretation of new regulations or changes to existing regulations.
• Conduct meetings and relevant discussions to engage stakeholders in the right perspective and take the task to closure.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders both internal (Legal, Compliance, other tech teams, Transaction Reporting teams) and external (DTCC, Industry calls, Regulators etc).
• Identify risks & issues and communicate them to the relevant people in a timely manner – assist with proposing & planning mitigating steps.
• Determine Strategic Solutions / Proposals – focusing on long term efficiency, risk reduction and regulatory compliance.
• Maintain a culture of risk awareness and proactive resolution.
• Facilitates Business process improvement via the methodical investigation, analysis, review and documentation of functional business specifications.
• Co-ordinate and manage the delivery of the project across FMO, IT and relevant FO teams
• Provide solutions as well as produce functional specifications for development team.
• Use appropriate tools like JIRA etc to ensure that Functional Specifications are split and managed with development team in terms of clarity and implementation.
• Pro-actively engage, manage & build relationships with both technology (including vendors) & business stakeholders.
• Assist the PM with planning of BA tasks.
• Support the test team & business users during the testing phase by making design calls & assisting in issue analysis & resolution
• Support the transition to the production support team.

What you'll need to succeed

• Minimum 15+ Years of experience in business analysis and Investment Banking with direct experience in front-to-back trading, order processing and regulatory reporting.
• Familiarity with financial products - listed and OTC (IRS, Equities, FX, Fixed Income, swaps and rates/credit derivatives). Understanding of Trade Life Cycle.
• Prior demonstrable Experience on Regulatory reporting regimes specifically in the EU (MiFID II, Dodd Frank, EMIR etc).
• SQL skills for data interrogation and analysis. XML and FPML expertise are preferred.
• Strong skills in communication and questioning as well as in writing business requirements and functional specifications
• Strong organizational skills. Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• A good understanding of data analysis, data mapping and user acceptance testing.
• Atlassian tools (Confluence and JIRA), and working experience in agile scrum delivery is required.
• This role is open to Singapore PR or Singaporean or EP holder (max 1 month notice period).

What you'll get in return
You will have the opportunity to be part of a well-known banking company.

What you need to do now
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