Business Functional Analyst

Who We Are

Based in The Romania Excellence Centre, Bucharest - our client is seeking for experienced professionals who value teamwork, pioneering technology, and innovation. People who want to take their careers to the next level of success. You should be experienced to work in a dynamic environment, developing new applications and learning migration into Google Cloud.

Our Know Your Client application enables advisors to collect information about new potential customers, calculates their risk and decides in a workflow to accept or reject the customer as a client. Additionally, all clients are reviewed on a periodic schedule.

The solution is using REACT as front end, Java/Spring Boot as backend and an Oracle Exa-Database for storage. The instance is hosted on-prem on application servers. A migration of the hosting to Google Cloud and a role out of new instances in new locations is in progress.

We are looking for a Business Functional Analyst to help our client create the next big thing in digital banking.

What You’ll Be Doing

Have overall financial services acumen to be able to connect requirements from regulatory policy changes/language to business requirements to functional specifications for solution development and implementation

Creating and executing against roadmaps that focus on solution development and implementation Present key timeline, milestones and status update in absence or in conjunction of a Product Owner to senior management and hold strategic discussions independently

Refine business requirements and align globally across all 7 locations in the CE, Ger, APAC and US regions

Prepare senior management slides with strong communication capabilities to package a problem statement clearly to both IT and Non-IT stakeholders, message and influence via email, Word and PowerPoint effectively

Aligning with other key stakeholder groups (such as project management, software engineering, vendor) to support the link between the business divisions and the solution providers for all aspects of identifying, implementing, and maintaining solutions

Documentation of requirements, processes and controls in Confluence and Jira

Support for maintaining and prioritizing the product backlogs

Pre-go-live change management, assisting and supporting SIT and UAT phases

Pick-up production issues and take full ownership until resolution coordinating with all required parties in the bank

What We’re Looking For

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

At least 5 years of professional expertise in the described role or similar

In-depth knowledge of the KYC and account opening process (AFC and KYC standards and regulations) in the Wealth Management business with regard to offshore business and complex, high-risk client structures would be beneficial

Social and intercultural competence for the successful handling of all internal and external and international stakeholders, as well as good analytical, conceptual thinking, pronounced autonomy and initiative

Experience in large project or transformation projects in a big financial enterprise would be beneficial

Be able to perform under pressure and face senior management stakeholders if needed

Can-do attitude and natural tendency to own topics end-to-end and to deliver changes into production on time

Strong and clean skills in PowerPoint and Excel

Knowledge of the Agile methodologies

Practical experience with technologies like: JWT, SAML, REST API, Java, Oracle, SQL, Postman (or similar) would be beneficial

Avaloq Core Banking knowledge is a plus

Strong oral and written communication skills to ensure close alignment with all stakeholders across departments and different seniority levels up to MD

Language skills, fluence in English, German language is a plus