Senior Business Analyst

Duties & Responsibilities:

Productivity and Quality
• Ensure that business requests are concrete and documented thoroughly
• Ensure seamless handover to engineering for the design and implementation phases of software development through clear, comprehensive documentation and well-established requirements traceability
• Lead the gathering and documentation of high-quality functional and non-functional requirements for applications solutions, ensuring sound alignment between business expectations and software/solution delivery
• Sensibly drive discussions between the business and technology to ensure alignment on expectations of the business functionalities being delivered through the business applications

Collaboration
• Own the scoping and prioritization of business requirements and contribute positively to the scoping discussions between platform and business stakeholders
• Lead knowledge sharing sessions with junior peers, application engineering and operations enablement teams
• Coordinate the buddy allocations for new joiners during their onboarding and foster proactive collaboration among peers e.g., active peer reviews
• Effectively communicate, proactively manage the relationship with business and platform stakeholders, while developing the ability to influence
• Actively participate in the development and review of software standards, software solution documentation and implementation within the Business Application Group’s platform(s) of your expertise

Leadership
• Stay on the leading edge of application development practices and remain current on new technologies and available vendor packages
• Serve as a functional lead of a specific group of applications contributing to and guiding the efforts of development teams
• Manage junior business analysts
• Mentor junior colleagues and facilitate their skills/knowledge development through advice, coaching, knowledge transfer and training opportunities

Compliance
• Timely complete all compliance obligations and trainings, including relevant professional certification if applicable
• Thoroughly understand and guide team members on the compliance, security and operational responsibilities in your area of work

Job Qualifications:
• At least 8+ years of work experience as IT business analyst
• Strong experience in application development
• Preferably from the banking or financial industry

Work Setup: Hybrid
Work Schedule: Night Shift
Office Location: BGC, Taguig