Sr. Systems Analyst - Trade Finance Software Engineering - AVP

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The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Systems Analyst for our Trade Finance technology solutions team. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing cutting-edge software solutions that enhance our Trade Finance offerings. Your expertise in Commercial banking Products, Payment processing, Loan products, and industry standards (such as T360 from vendor CGI Inc.) will be critical in driving innovation and ensuring seamless customer experiences.

The Systems Analyst will participate in development and maintenance efforts for Trade Finance Application. The candidate must have experience working as a Business Analyst in a functional team and working with Business to get the requirements and provide information to the systems development team. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background to understand and support different technical teams to support applications. The candidate must have a financial background, preferably Trade Finance expertise with T360 Application from CGI Inc. Must have knowledge of relational database for creating queries and extracting data and knows Business Objects. Experience as a Scrum master is a plus. The candidate should be able to work cooperatively with cross-functional teams with minimal direction from senior management. The individual offers excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate, document, and analyze complex user business processes and requirements.

• Analyze current business processes, build current process model diagrams and make recommendations on changes to improve processes.

• Build design documents based on meetings, JAD sessions or other requirements gathering tools, with developers and end-users.

• Leads in defining the user requirements and making sure they are addressed in application implementation.

• Influences business users in redefining the business processes to maximize application usage as required. Recommends “builds” only for differentiation.

• Perform data analysis, profiling, and validation of new data sources, involving loans, deposits, and other security related data.

• Integrate with the Data Management Office to ensure continuity and consistency of data integrity and data quality across all Finance technology platforms and solutions.

• Create systems test plans and then ultimately perform system testing for assigned change requests, tax updates and patch bundles/upgrades.

• Provide functional support to the technical team in systems development and act as a liaison between end users and the technical team members.

• Lead in testing new or modified systems. Work with the QA team in conducting multiple levels of testing from stress, performance, and standard application testing. This includes running SQL to test database updates.

• Creating project documentation for waterfall projects. (Business Requirement Document, Functional and Detail Design Document, Project execution document, etc.

• Creating stories for technical teams to work on and create backlog stories for future developments.

• Conduct needs analyses and requirements assessments, assess technical viability of products/technology, contribute to development of business cases, and consult and make recommendations on technical solutions to meet specific business requirements.

• Consult on database development, database transaction management, and application integration for various systems or platforms.

• Test, debug, and/or oversee the testing and validation of applications to ensure that quality and functionality are in line with the requirements, as well as industry standards and protocols.

• Deliver projects that adhere to continuous delivery practices with automated unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing pipelines.

• Troubleshoot issues and problems, comes up with clear action plan(s) to resolve such issues, develops, tests and implements the agreed solution into production.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on software development experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.

• Strong expertise in building and maintaining Trade Finance solutions, including payment processing, L/C issuance, and transaction management.

• Solid understanding in Commercial banking Products

• Experience with T360 or any Trade Finance application with Trade Finance products expertise.

• Understanding of Application and Technical Solution Architecture

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Prior experience in Trade financial services, banking, or fintech.

• Application development experience on data platforms, leveraging structured query language (SQL), extract-transform-load (ETL) tools, and object-oriented languages (Java, Python, C#) is a Plus.

• Experience managing teams in Agile environments.

• General understanding of UI design principles and best practices

Education:

• Degree or equivalent work experience equally preferable.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related discipline

Other Qualifications: 

• As per MUFG’s work policy for all personnel, candidates must work onsite 4 days and 1 day remotely out of either our Jersey City, NJ (Preferred) or Tampa, FL office.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $100K - $150K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

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