Business Analyst

Job Description

Intellect Design Arena Ltd is a global leader in Financial Technology for Banking, Insurance and other Financial Services. A uniquely focused Products business, the $136 million Intellect Design Arena, is a specialist in applying true Digital Technologies and designing advanced technology products for global financial platforms. Across global consumer banking (iGCB), Central Banking, Risk, Treasury & Markets (iRTM), Global Transaction Banking (iGTB) and Insurance (Intellect SEEC), Intellect provides full spectrum, fully integrated products that run in over 200 financial institutions, across 30 countries. Role Summary: Business Analyst will work with Bank?s business users & operations team to help translate business requirements to functional specifications. This functional specification would be used by the Intellect?s Product implementation team to deliver code deliverables to Intellect?s largest customer in Canada. The Experience, Responsibility and Required Skills are: Responsibilities: ? Review and understanding the business requirements from Banks Business & Operations users and covert these into functional specification document ? Support for the finalization of non-functional requirements and interface requirements ? End-to-end Solution delivery ? Provide support during various phases of testing ? both Intellect & Bank?s ? Demonstrate the product to bank business users and internal teams. ? Liaise with quality assurance team for test planning, test data identification and test scenario and cases review ? Provide functional downloads to internal Dev, Testing & QA teams ahead of design, development and Testing phases ? Provide Bank?s business & operations with Product training ? Responsible for post production defect triage and query resolution ? Create product presentation decks for sales and marketing teams ? Keep senior leadership abreast of strategies, deliverables, risks and issues as they arise Required Skills: ? Experience on processing, clearing and settlement of domestic/ international wires, electronic funds transfers, direct debits ? In-depth end-to-end processing knowledge of at least 2 of the following areas 1. Cheque & Cash Collections 2. Electronic Collections 3. Supply Chain Finance 4. Trade Finance 5. Liquidity Management (sweeps, pooling) (Preferred) 6. Channel banking (internet, mobile, API, Host-to-Host) (Must have) ? Gathering functional requirements including preparation of functional specification documents (FSD/FRD), user stories and requirement traceability ? Change / defect management experience which includes root-cause analysis, proposed solution and related documentation ? Excellent analytical, communication and documentation skills. ? Substantial client interaction and direct participation in client requirement gathering, elicitation and functional solution design. ? Ability to engage with various internal/external stake holders such as IT business analysts, product managers, operations and testing. ? Proficient in creation of flowcharts/UML diagrams ? Exposure to core banking, basic knowledge of RDBMS (SQL queries) is preferred ? Sound knowledge of international standards like SWIFT and ISO20022 is preferred