| Business Analyst – Treasury | |
| Aspire Resourcing Doha, Qatar Ref: HP631-18 |
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The RoleThe RolePosition Summary: Would work as a liaison among Treasury stakeholders (Front, Middle, Back Office and Finance) in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes and information systems. The business analyst understands Treasury related business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends IT solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. Understands how information technology interfaces with the functional groups within an organization. Analyzes and documents business requirements and processes. Constructs conceptual data and process models, including data dictionaries and volume estimates. Works with the Test Manager to test business applications from a business perspective to verify that all client and stakeholder requirements are incorporated into the design. Facilitates meetings with stakeholders to gather and document requirements and explore potential solutions. Leads Treasury work groups and work sessions to explore business process improvement and re-engineering opportunities and documents associated output in standard Bank formats. Represents the Bank when liaising with vendors in terms of business requirements , support and training. Manages vendors in a professional manner ensuring that Treasury are suitable supported, trained, all necessary systems fixes are delivered and tested in a timely manner. Specific tasks include: •Facilitate Business to articulate and specify requirements by •Reviewing as-is processes, and assessing improvement opportunities •Developing to-be operating model, processes and capturing functional requirements •Support vendor selection process by •Providing input to preparation of RFI / RFP vendor / solution evaluation criteria •Supporting vendor / solution evaluation assessment •Review solution design to ensure that the specified business requirements are met •Prepare test scenarios / scripts and support running of UAT (if required) •Execute necessary integration test(s) (SIT / UAT) from business perspective •Support training (if required) •Review quality of delivered user / training manual •Prepare SLA and amend procedure manual as part of go-live preparation •Creates functional description •Facilitate vendor to capture configuration parameter and detailed requirements •Writing blueprints |
RequirementsRequirementsExperience: •Extensive Treasury banking knowledge (5 years +) from a front, middle, back office and finance perspective in a business analysis function •Experience of Misys OPICS system •Experience of SWIFT messaging •Experience of the following products: o Bonds  Government bonds  Corporate bonds  FRN's  MTN's  Capital Market Derivatives (Bond) o Forex  FX Spot  FX Forwards  Manufactured forwards  Currency Swaps Split value deals - where the currencies in the two legs are delivered on different days Currency Options (American and European put and call) Currency Derivatives of all major types, including third generation alternatives (one touch, no touch, range touch, barriers (knock-out and knock-in) o Assets  Repo's (Customer and Market)  Equities trading  Margin trading  Equity Derivatives of all major types o Money market  Money market loans - fixed, notice and call  Money market deposits - fixed, notice and call  Discount type instruments - Treasury Bills, BA's etc.  Yield type instruments - FRN's, NCD's etc. o Derivatives  Interest Rate Swaps  Forward Rate Agreements  Cross Currency Swaps  Credit Derivatives  Commodity Derivatives  Interest rates  Collars  Floors  Caps Range/Target Accrual structures across currencies  Options (Currency, Swaptions) • Project Management experience • Good banking system background (preferably SAP) (5 years +) • Good systems integration experience • Good vendor management experience • Nice to Have: Corporate Banking, Trade Finance Retail Banking Islamic Treasury Islamic Banking Ability to understand user issues and translates them into requirements for the technology group and, conversely, translates technology issues into a format understandable to non-technical personnel. Assists in integration tests of business applications to ensure user requirements have been incorporated and client expectations have been satisfied Business Generates conceptual business model view documentation and assists in defining meaningful data entity definitions. Develops standards, templates, and procedures to aid in the development of work products. Typical Output and Deliverables Conceptual Business Models • Functional Requirements •Status Reports Behavioral Skills: •Stakeholder Focus •Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of stakeholders •Gets first-hand stakeholder information and uses it for improvements in products and services •Establishes and maintains effective relationships with Stakeholders and gains their trust and respect •Decision Quality •Sound decision maker based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment •Excellent track record of accurate decision making •Sought out by others for advice and solutions •Listening •Practices attentive and active listening •Has the patience to hear people out •Can accurately restate the opinions of others even when he/she disagrees •Presentation Skills •Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, with peers, direct reports, and bosses •Commands attention and can manage group process during the presentation •Plan and guidance of workshops incl. summarizing of the results •Problem Solving •Uses logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions •Can see hidden problems •Is excellent at honest analysis •Looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers •Business Process Improvement •Analyzes current business processes to identify areas in need of redesign or improvement •Conducts impact analysis to determine the degree and form of changes needed •Implements changes that meet the needs of customers and achieves performance improvement goals •Business Trends and Best Practice •Maintains knowledge of current and emerging global trends, products, services and Treasury best practices in his functional area •Understands business and / or technical forces that shape trends •Applies knowledge of current and emerging trends when recommending solutions •Has the functional business knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment •Core Process Knowledge •Understands and articulates an existing core business process and future process vision in his areas •Has the functional business knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment •Methodology Approach and Life Cycle •Demonstrates an understanding and knowledge of chosen methodology principles, approaches, steps, phases, concepts, techniques and units of scope •Applies the framework and coaches others in project situations •Possesses a holistic understanding of the scope, purpose, triggering events, results, and activities related to phases •Has the methodology knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment |
About the CompanyAbout the CompanyAspire Resourcing is a leading search company specialising in Lean, Six Sigma, CMMi and Operational Excellence recruitment. We have been supplying Lean and Six Sigma Black Belts, Master Black Belts and Deployment Leaders since 2002. Our approach gives our clients all the benefits of employing a specialist headhunt / search firm. We locate, identify and screen candidates using dedicated search and networking techniques, charging only at the end of the recruitment process and once the candidate has been successfully placed. After five years of recruiting specifically in the business process improvement area, we have built up a very impressive database of clients and candidates that we speak with on a regular basis. Our clients range from banking and insurance companies to manufacturing and consulting groups and we work with them supplying people across the UK, EMEA, Asia Pacific and the US. |
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