Senior Business Analyst

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Business Analyst.

Business: Fin, Supervision and TR Tech

Job ID: 49192

Principal responsibilities:

1. Partner with stakeholders to elicit, analyze and document business requirements for market risk technology solutions, ensuring clarity and traceability from idea to delivery.

2. Map current and target processes, identify gaps, and propose pragmatic improvements to controls, data flows and operational workflows.

3. Produce high-quality analysis artefacts (for example: user stories, functional specifications, process flows).

4. Support prioritization and backlog management with Product Owners and delivery teams, ensuring outcomes align to business needs and risk controls.

5. Collaborate with engineers to clarify requirements, support solution design discussions, and ensure deliverables meet agreed intent.

6. Plan and support testing activities, including user acceptance testing, defect triage, and validation of fixes through to sign-off.

7. Build strong working relationships across global teams, helping to resolve ambiguity and drive decisions at pace.

8. Act as a bridge between users, project managers, and engineering teams, managing stakeholders proactively to align expectations, resolve conflicts, and drive timely decisions. 

Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications:

1. Strong business analysis experience within technology delivery, with the ability to translate complex needs into clear, testable requirements.

2. Knowledge of market risk concepts and measures (for example: Value at Risk, sensitivities, stress testing) and how risk is used in a banking context.

3. Confidence working with data: understanding data lineage, defining data quality rules, and supporting reconciliation and control requirements.

4. Experience working in Agile delivery environments, including writing user stories and supporting backlog refinement.

5. Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to engage global stakeholders across business and technology in a clear, structured way.

6. Strong problem-solving skills, with a practical and analytical mindset for navigating ambiguity and balancing stakeholder needs.

7. Experience supporting testing and implementation activities, including UAT coordination and defect management.

8. Ability to work effectively across locations and time zones, contributing to a collaborative and inclusive team culture.

9. Fast learner with curiosity and a continuous improvement mindset, able to pick up new domains, tools and ways of working quickly.

10. Experience using analysis and delivery tools (for example: Jira, Confluence). 

What additional skills will be good to have?

1. Familiarity with risk or finance platforms and data ecosystems (for example: risk engines, data warehouses, reporting layers).

2. Experience with query skills (for example: SQL).

3. Knowledge of AI and Machine Learning concepts, and experience identifying practical use cases (for example: automation, data quality monitoring, or intelligent alerting).

4. Ability to create simple user interface and user experience (UI/UX) prototypes (for example: wireframes or clickable mock-ups) to validate requirements and improve user journeys.

5. Certificate of PRM, FRM, CFA is great to have.

6. Fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese is nice to have.

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