Lead Business Functional Analyst

Job Title: Lead Business Functional Analyst

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• BFA will be part of the Treasury Technology Team in India. The key objective of Business functional analyst role is to bridge the gap between the stakeholder needs and the technical delivery team and to help successfully deliver projects in an agile manner. As Functional Analyst you cover the whole analysis phase of a project and is able to design optimal target state business processes, including aspects outside own area of responsibility to ensure target processes are designed and aligned front to back.

• The Functional Analyst works together the Product Owner and Business SME to assure that the Product Backlog is consistent with the MVP and Product Vision. BFA is responsible of the good quality and right granularity of the Product Backlog. You will work closely with the development team ensuring appropriate functional details are captured, shared and understood. Will makes sure that the Product Backlog Items are Estimable, Small and fulfil the Definition of Ready before entering in the Sprint Backlog.You will be accountable of the good quality of the System, ensuring that all dependencies and interfaces have been analysed (Identify risks / issues).You will support the estimation process along with Development team (QA and DEV) and work closely with team to ensure requirements are understood.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy,

• Best in class leave policy.

• Gender neutral parental leaves

• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)

• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education

• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members

• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents

• Accident and Term life Insurance

• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Responsible for eliciting and managing functional requirements in partnership and collaboration with the Business Analyst, architecture and delivery leads, working in an agile and iterative manner to build out appropriate solutions

• Liaises with Product Owners, SME, and technical community (architects, developers etc.) , business stakeholders for solution identification.

• Works in a collaborative and agile manner to document user stories and refine (eg add Acceptance Criteria) and liaise with development teams to prioritise and deliver against the requirements

• Ensure the right granularity of user story's by applying slicing techniques in scope of estimation and completion in a single sprint

• Provide support to testing and the RTB teams in test execution and planning from data sourcing perspective.

• Supports the design and conceptualization of new business solution options and articulates identified impacts and risks

• Responsible for driving and leading target state architecture for data landscape by analysing current state gaps

• Supports the Business Analysis Specialists, Product Owners, on the prioritization of change requests. Works with engineers, to prioritize, trouble shoot and resolve reported bugs / issues / stories on applications

• Outline business value of each requirement together and continuously engages with Engineering, POs and Journey experts to ensure development is aligned to what is required

• Provides domain and functional expertise

• Understands vision of the product and ensures development activities reflect that vision into the product

• Drives data discovery, sourcing, modelling and analytics to support the creation of data flows and models. This includes researching and profiling data sources in data categories of expertise

• Evaluating dependences, interfaces and specifying inputs and formatting outputs to meet the business' Responsible for defining Non Functional Requirements

Your skills and experience

• Good domain knowledge of investment banking, securities market, trade lifecycle is necessary.

• Good experience working with reference data like Client, Instrument, Book etc. within a Bank

• Excellent understanding of IT system landscape

• Strong experience in business and functional analysis in investment banking area

• Excellent data analysis skills. Must have good SQL, Excel, Access experience to perform data analysis.

• Should understand various liquidity reporting in treasury workstream

• An excellent communicator (written & verbal)

Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.

• Coaching and support from experts in your team.

• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.

• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

About us and our teams

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Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.