Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager

Responsibilities

Mandatory experience in topics or any of the topic related to Tax Regulatory on any of the following: German Tax, Client Tax Statement Reporting, AEOI/CRS,FATCA, IRS871m

Gather the requirements from End Users, Product Owner

Write DFS ( Detailed Functional specifications ) / GFS ( General Functional specifications ) or user stories and confirm the understanding with the developers.

Perform analysis with the Product Owners or BA’s of other applications squads/teams when involved in multi-systems features and interfaces.

Work with developers on system design and development/unit testing.

Work with the testing team to review SIT strategy, test cases and results to ensure quality of delivery and conduct SIT to ensure quality of delivery.

Support UAT (reproduce issues, monitoring, fixing with the team).

Support Project delivery and ensure requirements are in place in Production.

Assist the Program / Project Manager and/or DEV team on any governance, security or architecture related follow-up or deliverables. Technical-functional knowledge is required in order to achieve this.

Assists stakeholders in diagnosing problems and recognizing issues.

Recognizes typical as well as complex and unusual issues, and actions needed to advance the decision-making process. Recommend possible solutions.

You are expected to:

Organize and run dedicated meetings, internal & management committees.

Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal third parties to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artefacts as needed: GFS, DFS, Business process design, minutes, review and validation with Sponsors, presentation etc.

Analyze gaps in functionality and processes between European and Asian sites and propose solutions to converge and align them into a common design.

Be the liaison between the Program / Project Manager (and Business side) and Technology teams.

Participate to the full development lifecycle including design, estimation, planning, development support, test support, release, implementation & guarantee support.

Support on PM & SM activities on need basis.

Vendor management

Flexible to take additional responsibilities.

Skills & Experience:

Experience in working with large, distributed IT teams.

Experience on SaaS / Cloud program / projects.

At least 12+ years of experience in the IT- banking

At least 8+ years of experience working on Tax or Regulatory topics

Good knowledge on Wealth Management banking operations and financial products

Good understanding of project lifecycle and experience in functional and technical specification

Highly analytical, able to investigate, troubleshoot and determine issues at root cause

Mandatory (Functional Skills)

Mandatory experience on any of the given topics: Tax Regulatory, Performance, German Tax reporting, Client Tax Statement Reporting, AEOI/CRS, FATCA, IRS871m

Knowledge of banking operations and financial products

Knowledge on Banking systems (similar to Olympic, TRANSACT, AAA)

Mandatory (Technical Skills)

IT experience: general knowledge (SQL)

Excel (example: how to do vlookup, creating pivots etc.

Mandatory (Soft Skills)

Excellent written and oral communication skills in multi-cultural environment

Good presentation skills to discuss/communicate directly with Europe/Asia business users

Must be able to work and collaborate with other team members – both Business and IT

Must be able to work on flexible hours (weekends, European hours) during tax reporting season

Good To Have

Organization and management of tests (SIT / Non-regression, UAT)

Methodology (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall)

JIRA, Confluence and Release Management Tools

Knowledge on Reporting systems (similar to EasyTax, FiTax, SECTRAS, WM Daten, SIX)

Exposure to applications revolving around: Client Management Systems, Data warehouse, Batch processing of reports