Senior Business Functional Analyst, VP

Job Title: Senior Business Functional Analyst, VP

Location: Bangalore, India

Corporate Title: VP

Role Description

• At the heart of Deutsche Bank's client franchise, is the Corporate Bank (CB), a market leader in Cash Management, Trade Finance & Lending, Securities Services and Trust & Agency services. Focusing on the Treasurers and Finance Departments of Corporate and Commercial clients and Financial Institutions across the Globe, our Universal Expertise and Global Network allows us to offer truly integrated and effective solutions.
• You will be operating within Corporate Bank Production Data Controls domain.
• You will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems, analyze large complex datasets and develop a deep understanding of the Transaction Monitoring functions and dataflows.
• As Functional Analyst you cover the whole analysis phase of a project and can design optimal target state business processes, including aspects outside own area of responsibility to ensure target processes are designed and aligned front to back.
• Our objective at Corporate Bank Production is to consistently strive to make production better, which ensures promising End to End experience for our Corporate Clients running their daily Cash Management Business through various access channels. We also implement, encourage, and invest in building Engineering culture in our daily activities to achieve the wider objectives. Our strategy leads to attain reduced number of issues, providing faster resolutions on issues, and safeguarding any changes being made on our production environment, across all domains at Corporate Bank.
• The Functional Analyst works together the Product Owner 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. He/she works closely with the development team ensuring appropriate functional details are captured, shared and understood. Candidate/Applicant makes sure that the Product Backlog Items are Estimable, Small and fulfil the Definition of Ready before entering in the Sprint Backlog. Candidate/Applicant is accountable of the good quality of the System, ensuring that all dependencies and interfaces have been analysed (Identify risks / issues). Candidate/Applicant support the estimation process along with Development team ( QA and DEV) and work closely with QA to ensure requirements are understood and can be turned into appropriate test cases. The Business Functional Analyst involves in all the Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, spring planning, and retrospectives) and supports the Agile delivery framework.

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.) for solution identification.
• Works in a collaborative and agile manner to document user stories and refine (e.g. 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 needed clarifications on requirements to team members Together with Business Analyst manage requirements using Agile framework i.e., user stories and help drive the agile process forward by participation in backlog grooming, sprint planning, QA, etc.
• Responsible for supporting the testing requirements together with the QA Team
• Supports the design and conceptualization of new business solution options and articulates identified impacts and risks
• Assures that the Product Backlog Items respect Definition of Ready before entering in the Sprint Backlog
• Together with the Scrum Master assures that a proper number of Items enter into Sprint Backlog
• Supports the Business Analysis Specialists, Product Owners, on the prioritization of change requests
• Outline business value of each requirement together with Business Analyst and Product Owners and continuously engages with Engineering, POs and Journey experts to ensure development is aligned to what is required
• Provides domain and functional expertise as required
• Understands vision of the product and ensures development activities reflect that vision into the product
• Works with engineers, to prioritize, trouble shoot and resolve reported bugs / issues / stories on applications
• 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
• Ensure the project work is executed and implemented according to the plan or any agreed changes to the plan and according to agreed project management standards
• Ensure relevant and appropriate analysis, management information, and reporting is provided

Your skills and experience

• 15+ Years of experience with exposure in Payment domain including understanding of products, business and operational processes :High Value, Low value, Instant payment methods, along with SWIFT, MX, Local clearing format knowledge
• Prior surveillance knowledge is an advantage             
• Demonstrable experience in leading projects to successful conclusions
• Experience in Management role
• Experienced in effectively communicating with and positively influencing project stakeholders and team members
• Working closely with Product Owners and Stakeholders along with maintaining product backlogs and driving release content throughout via prioritised stories.
• Familiar with Excel, PowerPoint, Visio etc.
• Ability to work in a Matrix organization with stakeholders spread across geographies.
• Understanding of agile (scrum) methodology
• Experience in conceptualization and solution definition
• Good analytical and problem solving experience
• Ability to identify and interpret stakeholders needs and requirements
• Self-motivated and flexibility to work autonomously coupled with ability to work in virtual teams and matrix/global organisations including appreciation of different cultures during collaborating and sharing.
• Ability to influence and motivate other team members and stakeholders through strong dialogue, facilitation and persuasiveness.
• Architecturally minded with an ability to simplify complex activities
• An excellent communicator (written & verbal)
• Fluent in English (written/verbal) additional language(s) are an advantage
• Advanced knowledge of methods and tooling for business functional analysis

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Self-motivated with excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills. Able to think strategically with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to handle multiple demands and priorities simultaneously, work under pressure, in an organized manner and with teams across multiple locations and time-zones
• Able to connect, manage and influence people from different backgrounds and cultures.
• A strong team player being part of a global team, communicating, managing, and cooperating closely on a global level while being able to take ownership and deliver independently.

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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