Business Analyst

• Issuing Letters of Credit (LCs) Export factoring (companies receive funds against invoices or accounts receivable) Forfaiting (purchasing the receivables or traded goods from an exporter) Export credits (to reduce risks to funders when providing trade or supply chain finance)
• Business Analyst and Subject Matter Expert, you will translate the international trade finance and supply chain needs of the marketplace and our client banks into requirements aligned with the overall product strategy for the development group and various client implementations.
• This involves working closely and collaboratively with our client banks, turning their needs into requirements, developing functional designs, and working to configure and test Trade360 to match their desired operational model.
• You will provide ongoing collaborative guidance and assistance to the development and implementation teams to ensure that requirements are accurately implemented with our future strategy in mind.
• Checked, identified & solved issues related to newly designed enhancements to Trade-360
• Designed, executed & validated UAT test cases (Reimbursements, Import, Export & Standby Letters of Credit)

Duties:

• Candidate must have experience in Trade Finance which may include areas such as Electronic Trade Loans, Receivables and Distribution or Sales Finance.
• Candidates should have expertise in one or more of the following areas Trade Service, Commodity Trade Finance, Export Agency Finance & Working capital Finance
• The qualified candidate will be a member of a team of analysts within the Trade Finance team whose primary focus is to:
• Partner with product owners globally to understand new business opportunities • Define business and functional requirements based on those new business opportunities.
• Liaise between product and technical teams to the purpose of ensuring technical teams have sufficient information to complete design, coding, testing, and implementation phases of the project life cycle.
• Partner with other internal teams to create and ensure new business opportunities and enhancements to existing products are communicated quickly and accurately to external customers
• Coordinate and participate in review; revisions; changes; enhancements; testing; documentation; and member notification of product enhancements and/or business opportunities. • Provide business knowledge and technical support for requirement development.
• Work closely with developers and requesters identifying data and functional requirements in the design of new/enhanced systems.
• Ensure development objectives are accomplished; user testing is performed, and member notification is prepared in a timely fashion.
• Develop and participate in the review of the business and functional requirements and determine primary functions that the project is to provide.
• Ensure timely and accurate communication with project staff throughout the life cycle of the project and ensure knowledge transfer of vendor technology to client staff.
• Document and coordinate changes and enhancements of products and services and prepare and/or present documentation of business/technical presentations.
• Provide technical support for the member(s) to ensure adherence to requirements. • Evaluate business requests to determine feasibility; work with Software Engineers to define alternatives and recommend optimal solutions.
• Ensure methodology compliance; document problem areas and coordinate resolutions; reporting to management as necessary and investigate/research client or industry business/technical process.