Lead BA Or Application Manager - Ace

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Application Ownership and Strategy:

• Act as functional owner of ACE, accountable for business behavior, functional quality, and change integrity.
• Shape the functional roadmap in partnership with the product owner and IT leadership.
• Balance BAU stability, regulatory commitments, and strategic enhancements.

Senior Business Analysis and Governance:

• Oversee and approve complex requirements, CRs, and scope decisions.
• Chair or strongly influence UAT strategy, acceptance standards, and release readiness.
• Represent functional and business impact in ACE Steering/Decision Committees.
• Produce structured pre-sprint impact assessments for incoming requirements, identifying affected workstreams, calculation layers, test scope, and integration dependencies before a development sprint begins.
• Cross-reference new requirements against the existing user story backlog across parallel workstreams, identifying overlaps, conflicts, and dependencies before sprint planning.
• Trace the impact of incoming requirements across the platform's interconnected calculation layers from data ingestion through transformation logic to output reporting before development begins.

People Leadership (India and Global):

• Lead, coach, and develop ACE business analysts, including direct or matrix management of staff in India.
• Set standards for requirements quality, AT execution, documentation, and audit readiness.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and capability development of BA resources.

Stakeholder and Executive Engagement:

• Serve as the primary senior functional interface to business units, group actuarial, and IT leadership.
• Handle escalations related to scope, quality, or delivery risk.
• Clearly articulate trade-offs, impacts, and recommendations at the senior level.

Operational Excellence and Risk Management:

• Ensure ACE changes are auditable, traceable, and compliant with regulatory expectations.
• Drive continuous improvements in testing, controls, and functional processes.
• Own functional readiness for audits, major releases, and business incidents.

AI First, the Automation Mindset:

• Champion AI-assisted analysis, testing optimization, and documentation generation within the BA function.
• Ensure AI is used responsibly, improving productivity without compromising quality or judgement.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in business analysis and/or application management.
• Proven leadership of distributed teams (including offshore / India delivery).
• Proven experience in multi-layer financial or regulated calculation platforms such as IFRS 9/17 regulatory reporting systems, insurance or banking platform BA (e. g., Oracle Fusion Finance, SAP FICO, Temenos, Finacle), or equivalent complex financial systems where a change in one layer cascades through multiple downstream components.
• Strong governance instinct with business-first decision-making.
• Confidence operating at senior stakeholder and executive level.