Senior Business Analyst (Ref 26506)
Responsibilities
• Lead analysis and structuring of legacy core/financial systems and target new core systems, including business process alignment, functional gap analysis, and data mapping between As-Is and To-Be architectures.
• Act as a Senior Markets Business/Data Analyst responsible for Translating trading and securities processes into business and data requirements, Defining data mappings, controls, and testing deliverables
• Supporting the Regional Data Warehouse implementation
• Design of balancing controls, break categories, tolerances, exception ownership, ageing and root-cause remediation.
• End-to-end data analysis
• Data mapping, data quality and reconciliation design
• Requirements, documentation and testing support
• End-to-end implementation or migration of a GL system. GLCS experience is a strong preference and operates as a direct platform-match override. Otherwise: SAP FI/CO, Oracle GL / Fusion, PeopleSoft, Workday Financials, Finacle GL, Temenos T24 GL, etc
• Chart of Accounts conversion from legacy to target system — COA restructuring, account hierarchy redesign, legacy-to-new account crosswalk design, and treatment of retired, merged and split accounts.
• GL reconciliation — sub-ledger to GL, GL to source system, trial balance and balance-sheet proof, opening-balance validation, and post-migration parallel-run reconciliation.
• Accounting entry and posting logic: debit-credit event mapping per product, journal structures, accounting rules engines, posting event tables.
• GL dimensions and segment structure: legal entity, branch, cost centre, profit centre, product code, currency, inter-company.
• Period-end close: accrual and provision entries, cut-off and back-value handling, batch date versus value date accumulation, month-end and year-end rollover, retained-earnings carry-forward.
• Multi-currency: base, local and reporting currency; FX revaluation and translation; unrealised versus realised P&L postings.
• Understanding of how GL feeds regulatory and management reporting (MAS 610 / 1003, IFRS 9, statutory and head-office reporting).
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; BA, data-management, capital-markets or Murex certifications are advantageous.
• Must have strong hands-on Data mapping experience
• 10+ years in capital markets, securities operations, Markets technology, business analysis or data analysis
• Minimum 10 years, of which at least 5 years hands-on General Ledger
• Experience in front-to-back Markets transformation, including platform implementation, data warehouse, or regulatory reporting programs
• Strong practical delivery experience across requirements, mapping, data quality, reconciliation and testing.
• Hands-on experience mapping and migrating data from legacy or proprietary systems to packaged capital-markets platforms (preferably Murex), including data profiling, field crosswalks, transformation/code-conversion rules, data cleansing, historical-data treatment, reconciliation, mock migrations and cutover validation.
Licence no: 12C6060