Business Analyst/Project Manager
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst with Project Management experience to join a multi-year Finance Transformation program within a leading Wealth Management banking environment in Singapore.
The project focuses on transforming Finance reporting across regions and entities and consolidating data onto a global Finance platform.
You will work closely with Finance stakeholders in Europe and Asia, technology teams, application SMEs, solution architects, and business users to define requirements, assess system and data impacts, drive implementation, and ensure successful delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Act as a Technology Business Analyst / Finance SME, assessing the impact of accounting and Finance changes on core banking systems and financial reporting.
Work with Group Finance and regional stakeholders to gather, analyze, and validate business requirements.
Lead workshops with business and technology stakeholders to understand business needs and challenge requirements where appropriate.
Conduct application impact analysis and assess data flows, interfaces, and dependencies.
Define and document business requirements, functional specifications, data mappings, and use cases.
Ensure functional and data mappings align with both local and Group Finance requirements.
Coordinate and support SIT, UAT, and production implementation across the full project lifecycle.
Work with technology teams, developers, solution architects, and application SMEs to design functional solutions.
Manage business requirements consolidation and obtain formal validation from sponsors / Product Owners.
Maintain the project demand backlog and support release planning based on estimates and delivery capacity.
Prepare project governance materials and monitor project progress against agreed deliverables.
Identify and manage risks, issues, bottlenecks, dependencies, and project challenges.
Facilitate stakeholder discussions and arbitration where required.
Drive deliverables through the full lifecycle: Elaboration → Build → SIT → UAT → Production.
Coordinate stakeholders across Asia and Europe to ensure timely and successful delivery.
Key competencies — priority order
- Accounting / Finance reporting / Reconciliation
- Liquidity management
- Credit risk
- Local regulatory reporting
- Strong Technology Business Analysis — impact analysis, data quality, reconciliation, data mapping.
- Strong functional specification / presentation documentation.
- Ability to drive, organise, monitor and track deliverables to closure.
Plus points
- Wealth Management / Private Banking experience
- Investment product lifecycle
- Financial-services information flows
- Finance implementation projects
- Full IT lifecycle / SDLC
- Basel IV / SA-CCR
- Core banking loan/deposit lifecycle
- Collateral/counterparty management