About the role
Responsibilities:
- Elicit, clarify, and document business requirements.
- Strong ability to articulate key functional capabilities of the SaaS solution suite.
- Lead fit-gap analysis exercises to assess business requirements and align them with out-of-the-box capabilities, and work closely with cross-functional teams to determine an action plan to address gaps.
- Establish user stories and backlog items, and prepare test specifications utilizing agile methodology.
- Prepare key implementation deliverables: business requirements documentation, functional specification document, and test strategy document.
- Organize and execute functional tests as well as integration tests within and across functional areas.
- Articulate the solution as part of the enterprise from a business perspective.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree (relevant experience can alternatively be considered) in computer science, finance, or related fields.
- 3+ years of experience in business analysis or functional consulting in the banking industry.
- Data analytical skills: ability to analyze and triage new configuration requests on the Zafin application.
- Broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes, and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance within the banking and financial services domain.
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.
- Team player, able to collaborate and work effectively at all levels of the organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
- Goal-oriented, getting the job done in a positive, reliable, and inspiring manner.
- Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities.
- Strong negotiation skills bundled with the ability to explain details/recommendations to customers logically.
- Proactive attitude, high willingness, and capability to pick up and dissect complex requirements quickly while collaborating closely within a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to act as a liaison, conveying information needs of the business accurately to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Domain knowledge of banking and financial institutions and/or large enterprise IT environments.
- Basic knowledge of cloud concepts (goal to work towards) and SaaS applications.