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