Senior Business and Functional Analyst (Investment Banking)

Project description

Join our Development Center in Bucharest, and become a member of our open-minded, progressive and professional team. In this role you will be working on projects for one our world famous clients. You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills, and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client. On top of attractive salary and benefits package, Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career.

Responsibilities

• The key objective of this role is to bridge the gap between the stakeholder’s needs and the technical delivery team, to help successfully deliver projects within this diverse and challenging environment. The Business and Functional Analyst (BFA) will be heavily involved at all stages of the software delivery lifecycle, from initial scope definition and planning exercises to the detailed analysis and collaboration with the IT team, to deliver working software. The Business and Functional Analyst will be required to work effectively with our Client's Treasury Issuance team, Treasury Operations, the Product Owner and other Business and Functional Analysts, within the team, to successfully deliver the projects. The role requires an enthusiastic problem solver, who delivers quality and cost-effective solutions, through the employment of excellent business analysis techniques, data analysis skills and functional domain knowledge. Responsibilities
• Defining and refining business cases in conjunction with business stakeholders and PO for the initial requirements
• Challenging, capturing, and articulating requirements, according to the quality standards operating within the team
• Maintaining and managing the product backlog to ensure priorities are agreed in line with the book of work
• Pro-active in identifying cost effective solutions to business problems.
• Acting as the voice of the client throughout the development process
• Liaising with all parties involved (Treasury Issuance, Operations, IT delivery team), to ensure successful delivery.
• Assisting and supporting QA and Engineering team
• Ensuring agreed analysis deliverables are prepared, according to deadline of the projects.
• Mediating and resolving issues, as and when they arise
• Close co-operation with other teams, to ensure strategic initiatives are leveraged.
• Identifying areas where we can improve the analysis and delivery capabilities of the wider team.
• Keeping aware of the latest industry trends and best practices, to improve the team.
• Have overall Issuance knowledge
• Documentation of requirements, processes and controls in Confluence and Jira

SKILLS

Must have

• At least 5 years of professional expertise in the described role or similar
• Outstanding analysis skills, comprising demonstrable experience of all aspects of analysis, such as business process modelling, use cases/ user story writing, data modelling, UML
• Experience in large IT projects within the Banking industry
• Solid understanding of financial products and keen to learn new technologies and to extend business domain knowledge
• Ability to work with SQL (basic queries to validate data or assist testing), knowledge of APIs
• Experience in stakeholder management and building excellent professional relationships
• Strong and clean skills in PowerPoint, Confluence, Jira and Excel
• Knowledge of the Agile methodologies
• Experience in working with remote teams
• Social and intercultural competence for the successful handling of all internal, external and international stakeholders, pronounced autonomy and initiative, good coordinator
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and proactive
• Problem-solving and ability to challenge requirements if unclear
• Strong communication and facilitation skills
• Language skills, fluence in English.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with GCP