Monday, March 29, 2010

“Senior Business Analyst” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank. High Base + Bonus + Benefits.

This is a unique opportunity for someone to play a key role in driving out the strategic direction of the organization, additionally there will be tremendous opportunity for career growth and leadership responsibility as the group size will rapidly expand in the next year.

For the right candidate, there will be opportunity for career growth and leadership responsibility as the group size will rapidly expand in the next year.

Main Function:
The business analyst will be leading the strategic data sourcing, analysis and delivery for the build out of the Risk & Finance Data Warehouse (RFDW) for APAC, predominately interacting with the Front Office IT & Finance IT groups and Finance businesses (Financial & Product Control functions).

Main Duties:
Requirements Analysis
• Work with Finance and Product Control to fully understand their data requirements.
• Understand the Front Office environment and engage Front Office teams to drive the delivery of enterprise data.
• Understand the products and processes that relate to them so that data can be mapped into the RFDW database.

Source Systems analysis
• Work collaboratively with business subject matter experts and technical staff from the different asset classes to understand the new data sources (at attributes level) to be stored in the data warehouse.
• Define the upstream external interfaces and ensure they meet the data warehouse design standards.
• Define appropriate business rules for validating all source data (transactions, positions, risk sensitivities, reference data etc).
• Analyze existing feeds, review system documentations and interview business and technical subject matter experts to understand existing processes.

Data transformation & delivery
• Work with the RFDW development team to define data delivery approach that meets consumer requirements
• Analyze the logic required to transform source data attributes to the target.
• Clearly document the logic for programmers to implement the transformation.
• Ensure that transformation logic is in line with data warehouse overall design strategy.

Testing
• Responsible for coming up with testing strategy and test plan
• Work with QA to drive out the F2B testing of data delivery and consumption
• Face off business & IT users during SIT, UAT.

Data warehouse on-going improvements initiatives
• Actively participate in initiatives and architectural reviews to improve the effectiveness of the data warehouse – in order to improve reliability, scalability and maintainability
• Propose standard templates, reference documents, requirements traceability matrices, etc that can be used to effectively capture new data sourcing requirements
• Actively participate in firm wide strategic initiatives

Experience required:
• The candidate will need to demonstrate the ability and willingness to learn quickly and also demonstrate a track record of effective business analysis and design.
• The candidate should have minimum of 6 years experience as a business analyst, 4 years in investment banking and should have worked a minimum of 4 years in a data warehousing environment preferably in a data sourcing & integration role.
• Business knowledge: In depth knowledge of at least one asset class with detailed understanding of Front to Back trade and business events (Trade Capture, events, Cash Settlement, Confirmation, EOD Valuation) is mandatory. Prior experience on an integration programme.
• Technical knowledge: Extensive experience in data analysis, ability to write SQLs, should have worked with data feeds and understand data models.
• Excellent written/documentation & verbal communication skills, with experience interfacing with senior leaders.


Please send your CV to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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