Lead Business Functional Analyst, VP

Job Title: Lead Business Functional Analyst, VP

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• You will be a key member of the Sanctions and Embargoes IT team, which is part of the Transaction Surveillance Tribe. Transaction Surveillance is an integral part of Payments and Cash Management and has been established as a first line of defence to build appropriate controls to ensure regulatory compliance. This includes sanctions and embargoes, fraud, and other controls.
• The Sanctions and Embargoes IT function in Transaction Surveillance is the first line of defence responsible for ensuring that all our payments are screened in real time against all sanctions and embargoes lists from various local and global regulators as well as lists based on the bank's internal risk appetite.
• Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery.  At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel. 
•  You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production support.

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 managing functional requirements in partnership and collaboration with the Business, Ops, 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.
• Onboard new business requirement through the strategic roadmap designed in accordance with the Bank’s goal.
• Supports the design and conceptualization of new business solution options and articulates identified impacts and risks.
• Maintain the existing Sanctions and Embargoes IT platform. Help roll out the new Sanctions platform being built in the Cloud platform and ensure this does not impact live flows during the transition.
• Design and roll out the integration of the above solution on the DB On Perms and DB Cloud platforms with vendor products and other existing systems of record (payments, reporting, archiving etc.), messaging systems and frontends.
• Work with business, AFC (Anti-Financial Crime) and operations teams to find an optimal solution given a certain risk appetite for different payment/product/geography mixes and new product launches.
• Help respond to data requests from audit and regulators (with different geographic, payment, customer, and product dimensions). This may include simple solutions such as identifying and rolling out new rules to improve Straight Through Processing (STP) rates. It also extends to advanced features such as artificial intelligence and machine learning for these.
• Ensure we have a modern, best-in-class platform that stays ahead of trends in infrastructure, application development frameworks and domain-specific developments in the sanctions and embargo space.
• Work as part of a development team with business, AFC (Anti-Financial Crime), sanctions operations, vendor teams and production service teams to understand requirements and refine stories (agile methodology).
• Design, implement, test, and support the above solutions in production (DevOps style).
• Works in a collaborative and agile manner to create end to end functional flows, document user stories and refine (e.g. add Acceptance Criteria) and liaise with development teams to priorities 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 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.
• 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 Sprint Backlog
• Supports the Business, Ops, Product Owners, on the prioritization of change requests.
• Outline business value of each requirement together with Business and Product Owners and continuously engages with Engineering, POs and experts to ensure development is aligned to what is required.
• Understands vision of the product and ensures development activities reflect that vision into the product.
• Evaluating dependences, interfaces and specifying inputs and formatting outputs to meet the business' Responsible for defining Non-Functional Requirements.
• Managing the product backlog (Capacity estimation and planning, L0 and L1 estimation of EPIC/Story level).
• Prioritizing needs (Clear categorization of an MVP and Book of Work definition/priority).
• Mentor to junior team members.

• An expert in flow of value of products through multiple systems.
• Expert in defining end to end business flow for high value payments- specifically.
• Motivate your team with proven leadership skills, making sure that the teams operate effective Agile methodologies.
• Go-to expert in a business flow for example in a P1 production issue or in major change initiative they will be lead for Investigation, analysis and requirements.

Your skills and experience

• 10+ years of experience as a hands-on BFA in Banking domain within a similar sized financial services organization.
• 6+ years in a senior/Lead capacity with ultimate responsibility for managing a product working with business and IT teams for a given initiative.
• Functional and Technical proficiency in HotScan Sanction & Embargo core product.
• Seasoned Business Functional Analyst with key domain expertise in Surveillance, Payment Gateway, Payment Format like ISO20022, SWIFT MT, Instant Payment, RTGS, BACS.
• Experience in a payment domain and/or related support functions including understanding of products, business, and operational processes, with exposure to business analysis will be preferred.
• Experience in integrating applications (legacy, modern and cloud) with different communication protocols and data formats.
• Already own the details of the existing on-perm sanctions platform or have quickly grasped them from a technical perspective with very deep functional expertise in sanctions and embargo regimes.
• Good understanding of data schemes like XML, JSON etc.
• Good experience on advanced SQL, UNIX, IBM MQ interfacing layer.
• Working closely with Senior Product Owners and Stakeholders along with maintaining product backlogs and driving release content throughout via prioritized stories.
• Experience in conceptualization and solution definition with good analytical and problem-solving experience.
• Good stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
• Architecturally minded with an ability to simplify complex activities
• Managing the product backlog (Capacity estimation and planning, L0 and L1 estimation of EPIC/Story level).

Must have skills

• Expert level understanding of Transaction surveillance in banking domain.
• Expert level understanding of HotScan core Sanction & Embargo product.
• Knowledge of ISO20022 financial service messages and / or MT, Clearing specific equivalents
• Experience of Agile software delivery methodology and tools/skills like specification by example and writing acceptance criteria.
• Experience leading virtual teams with a need to influence and direct people without direct line management responsibility.
• Experience organizing and leading workshops focused on requirements gathering, analysis and refinement.
• Great communication skills.

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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