Business Analyst, Core Banking Platform - AVP

Description

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Details of the Division and Team:

The Core Banking Transformation Team is responsible for delivering innovative, scalable, and regulatory-compliant banking solutions within the core banking application.

As a Business Analyst, you will operate at the intersection of business analysis, delivery leadership, and domain expertise, driving transformation and modernization initiatives within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment. You will be engaged in high-impact projects where clarity, structure, and disciplined execution are critical—especially in environments involving regulatory deadlines, cross-border dependencies, and legacy-to-target platform transitions.

This role requires close collaboration with business stakeholders (from front to back, including any other backend or downstream platforms such as operations, finance, coverage, investments, compliance, RDM, EOS, etc) to ensure successful delivery and sustainable solutions. Apart from owning the end‑to‑end analysis lifecycle (from discovery and requirements through design, UAT, release readiness), you will be expected to bring a strong track record of leading large-scale transformation, payments modernization, and regulatory change programs, particularly within Avaloq-based environments, translating business strategy and regulatory requirements into clear, testable system and process changes on Avaloq across regions.

What we will offer you:

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce is better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its center.

You can expect:

• Flexible benefits plan including virtual doctor consultation services

• Comprehensive leave benefits

• Gender Neutral Parental Leave

• Hybrid working arrangement

• 25 days of annual paid leave, plus public holiday

• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

Your key responsibilities:

• Lead requirements discovery with business stakeholders, perform independent analysis, and requirements documentation for Avaloq core banking platform enhancements, including regulatory or strategic projects as and when required.

• Conduct structured gap analysis between business expectations, regulatory requirements, and system capabilities.

• Coordinate and facilitate solution-shaping workshops (including demo sessions) with impacted business stakeholders.

• Translate business and regulatory needs into clear, actionable functional specifications (BRD/FSD) with traceability and impact transparency.

• Partner with Avaloq parameterization/configuration/developer teams to shape fit‑for‑purpose designs across modules (e.g., Client Lifecycle, Payments, Securities, Lending/Deposits, Fees, Corporate Actions, Securities Trading).

• Identify opportunities to improve stability, usability, and efficiency of the core banking platform, and promote test automation and standardization of BA artefacts.

• Oversee end-to-end delivery, including solution design, execution, testing (SIT, UAT, regression), and go-live readiness (such as training and documentation).

• Define and drive test strategy and execution across SIT, UAT, regression, and business dress rehearsals.

• Lead defect triage and prioritization, ensuring focus on business-critical and regulatory-impacting issues.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (such as vendors, internal IT teams, business stakeholders) to deliver high-quality solutions on time, as well as within scope and budget.

• Manage interdependent workstreams, delivery risks, regulatory milestones, and stakeholder expectations across global teams.

• Provide pragmatic decision support to sponsors, balancing business priorities, regulatory constraints, and system limitations.

• Provide structured delivery reporting (in the form of presentation and reports) and decision-ready status updates to senior management / business stakeholders

• Actively manage go-live risk, stabilization planning, and post-implementation support readiness.

• Consistently deliver stable, production-ready solutions with minimal post-go-live disruption.

• Drive process improvements, automation opportunities, and operational excellence within delivery and BAU environments.

• Support BAU production environment, including defect resolution & analysis, within the controlled change implementation framework.

• Mentor and support junior team members in their professional development.

• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment.

Your skills and experience:

• Avaloq Certified Professional (ACP) with a Bachelor’s degree in relevant disciplines (eg. Business, Information Technology, Finance, or Computer Science) and minimum 10 years’ experience as business analyst in project management on private banking, specializing in core banking transformation, payments modernization, and large-scale regulatory and platform change.

• Strong functional knowledge within Avaloq pertaining to private banking processes and controls (such as security & client static data, payments, securities trading, FX, structured products, lending/deposit, settlement, corporate action and fees) and cross border payments (such as SWIFT standards, ISO20022 compliance and MT/MX coexistence strategies)

• Proven track record in leading and coordinating large, multi-year transformation initiatives, including ISO20022, MT-to-MX migration, Avaloq cloud migration, and major platform upgrades (including SWIFT and Avaloq version release upgrades).

• Deep expertise in Avaloq (versions 4.1 through 5.7, including cloud deployments), with coding experience at param level on core banking modules, downstream & upstream interfaces, static data, and integration architecture.

• Experience in requirements gathering, process mapping & reengineering, solution delivery within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

• Hybrid experience operating effectively between Business Analyst and Project Manager roles, ensuring both solution integrity and delivery discipline.

• Familiarity with automated regression testing practices

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills.

• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving abilities.

• Minimum 10 years of working knowledge and experience across both CTB and RTB release cycles.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team in a fast-paced environment with minimal training required.