Business Analyst (Contract)

Direct Responsibilities

Regional Regulatory Reporting Project:

• To drive the user requirement gathering process and the analysis accordingly

• To identify the project priority/ constraint for the project plan

• To keep the solution's global functional design documentation and data dictionary up to date

• To guide various project actors through the functional documentation and participate in the architecture decision

• To streamline processes and challenge practices in front of entity CFOs

• To contribute to a long term sustainable design

• To perform/support system testing (e.g. SIT & UAT)

• To help Project Manager by providing expertise on the complexity of proposed design, estimation on workload/timelines for our team as well as other contributors, insight on issues faced and related remediation.

System Enhancement & Production Support:

• To provide support to resolve production incident raised by end user

• To identify the root cause of the incident by applying sound error tracing techniques

• To liaise with the related parties (e.g. IT, Operations, Front Office) to resolve the incident in a timely and permanent manner

Essential Knowledge/Skills:

• Background in Finance function with an understanding of accounting principles

• Understanding of banking operations, systems and front to back system framework

• Analytical, lateral thinker and result-oriented person with good problem solving and conflict management skills

• Fluency in English and able to argument / stand one's ground.

• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines under pressure

• Self-initiative and good team player

• Technical tools for functional investigation - (advanced excel / SQL query)

Qualifications and Experiences:

• Degree in Accounting, Computing or any other related subjects

• Minimum 5 years' experience in Banking

•Experience working in project (as the lead user / project team)

• Knowledge of Accounting Systems (e.g. SAP)

Other Preferred Competencies (not mandatory):

• CPA, CFA or other related professional certificates

• Regulatory/ Financial reporting exposure (HKMA, MAS or other APAC regulators; Basel rules)

• Experience with Data warehousing / Business Intelligence Reporting/ Data Modeling.

• High level of comfort around data

• MS Access/ Excel Macro/ programming language

• Available for occasional business travel

About Our Client

Our client is a prestigious international bank with a long history of providing corporate banking solutions to businesses and to large local companies, financial institutions and multinationals. We look for talented, tenacious individuals who are hungry to progress and eager to grow their knowledge.

Values and Diversity

Dynamic working gives everyone at our client the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager. They are an equal opportunity employer and are opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of our client to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law