Specialist, Financial Acc Developer

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

To facilitate IT related projects/change requests/production fixes for UOB Group, overseas subsidiaries and branches in the management accounting domains. Lead team members, including external vendors, to deliver IT solutions to bank’s end-user. The solution scope involves Management Reporting applications to enhance the bank’s operation readiness and financial prowess. Forward looking and agile to adapt to changing bank’s needs and dynamic working environment

Candidates are expected to:-

• Understand business function and analyse users requirements, make a clear scope of project and build consensus with users

• Lead in analysis and scoping of data sourcing and functional enhancements, functional/application design, functional specifications, discuss and obtain users agreements

• Obtain commitments from all identified stakeholders on creation of project plan and handle of project change management

• Create project schedule, project activity list and control to keep the schedule and within budget

• Prepare SIT test schedule and develop test cases

• Arrange with users to conduct User Acceptance Test and arrange with development team to prepare necessary test environment and support functional testing

• Monitor and report on the progress of UAT and follow up with the error resolution

• Prepare necessary documents to facilitate and deliver the project (Release checklist, UAT results, etc)

• Manage the technical delivery within timeline and with quality

• Manage change request and defect with release control • Manage project issues, user and vendor expectations • Ensure end-user satisfaction and meeting service level agreement • Provide coaching to team and to build high performance team

Key Requirements:

The candidate must have at least 10 years of IT working experience in the following areas :-

• Relevant experience in a Financial Institution for Management Accounting and Profitability

• Reporting. Regulatory reporting.

• Financial applications (e.g. General Ledger, cost management, budget, forecast) in banking environment

• Good understanding of data from core banking and treasury products

• Data mapping and data sourcing from data warehouse experience

• Good understanding in SDLC phases

• Capability in requirement analysis and functional design skills

• Capability of self-learning and a quick learner

• Be adaptable, flexible and be able to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced of a growing organization / environment

• Good communication (written and oral) skills

• Ability to network and influence others without direct oversight or supervision

• Ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues in distributed global locations

• Knowledge in SQL

Candidate with the following knowledge will have added advantage :-

• Knowledge of PL/SQL in Unix environment

• Knowledge of Oracle Hyperion Essbase

• Knowledge of Oracle OFSAA and OBIEE

Additional Requirements

Be a Part of the UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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