Business Functional Analyst, AVP

Job Title: Business Functional Analyst, AVP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• Deutsche Bank is actively renewing its digital channels and has started many strategic and challenging projects. Next to some major technological changes Deutsche Bank has decided to step into the Agile software development methodology in order to improve its agility and reduce time to market without scarifying quality.
• The team is on a growth path focused on internalization derived from increasing demand by internal stakeholders. Therefore the team is looking for enthusiastic team players with a passion to deliver change to make the bank achieve program goals, more stable, but also more efficient and effective.
• The Business Functional Analyst has to support wide range of solutions for projects for meeting the business expectations from application. The typical roles include working as part of broader project teams with personal ownership for key deliverables.

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

• Play critical role of SME/L3 support in gathering, clarifying, documenting requirements and perform test/production validations, provide sign-off
• Understanding, Challenging, capturing, and articulating requirements according to the quality standards
• Participate and help development and testing teams in strategic projects and DR exercises
• Managing the requirement priorities transparently which are agreed in stakeholders
• Supports preparation, pre-requisites, feasibility studies towards creation of business cases outlining value drivers of proposed solutions for business clients in crucial projects
• Identify system defects and proactively recommend solutions/resolutions
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts, Project Managers to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs
• Identify areas for improvement and delivery capabilities
• Have demonstrated proficiency in working with global and local teams, managing vendors and/or 3rd parties
• Problem solving ability managing unexpected events

Your skills and experience

As BFA you will bring:

• At least 9+ years of experience in role for Business Functional Analyst
• Strong analysis skills and should be able to demonstrate expertise in impact analysis, business processes, writing/simplifying requirements and use cases
• Previous experience in Banking/ Financial Domain, accounts, transaction processing for private/corporate customers will be a plus
• Strong experience in driving business discussions, business workshops, processes, meetings and translate into requirement documents
• Should understand definition of technical requirements for transaction representation
• Experience to deliver artefacts as needed: Business Requirements Document, Functional Specification Document, PRD, Use Cases, estimates
• conceptualize complex process flows and business flows
• Hands-on experience in End to End business processes, requirements engineering for financial institutions, process management tools and techniques
• Should be able to design E2E services from functional processing aspects in mind
• Experience in stakeholder management like business units/users, infrastructure teams, audit, management, DEV/Testing teams
• Should have good understanding of LPT, smoke, E-2-E tests and performance issues
• Experience working in entire project lifecycle from pre kick-off until post production
• Should be fluent in clarifying, breaking down requirements with development & testing teams, program management
• Should be comfortable with agile/waterfall model, create user stories where applicable
• Experience in delivering projects in a challenging environment with tight timelines
• Awareness/experience how cloud technology works in the background
• Hands-on experience on tools like HP ALM, Jira, ServiceNow, Confluence
• Awareness of Quality Management tools, techniques, and matrices
• Proven experience in handling multiple simultaneous projects and meeting timelines
• Pragmatic yet showing a high attention to details

Skills that bring added advantage:

• Understanding of financial products and high level risk management principles
• Beneficial to have experience working on projects requiring large data validation
• Knowledge of how IT application architecture and development works - desirable but not must
• Basic understanding of Technology

Soft skills:

• Must have - excellent communication, strong coordination skills & interpersonal skills
• Should possess strategic thinking, passion for driving solutions
• Self-motivated, proactive with ability to work in fast paced environment and under pressure
• Should be able to challenge/convince/adoptive in approach, if required
• Good team player over different geographies

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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We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.