Functional Consultant (BA - Regulatory reporting)
Unison Consulting Pte Ltd, Hong Kong

• Take part in the team Agile / SCRUM development process, actively participate to SCRUM ceremonies
• Play a key role in monitoring and interpreting Regulatory changes in the financial sector (Banking, Insurance, etc.)
• Perform detailed analysis of regulations to extract business requirements to be part of our software solution and write functional and business specifications according your interpretations of regulatory requirements
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications to be implemented by software engineers, work closely with the technical team to ensure that they have a clear understanding of requirements and support them throughout the development process
• Evaluate the impact of new developments on the application and its data model and contribute to the functional design of the application as well as working closely with the technical team to ensure a clear understanding of those requirements
• Contribute to estimating development efforts and impact analysis
• Create or enhance functional test data and expected results to test new developments
• Perform functional testing of the software packages to be delivered, control adequacy of developments with functional specifications
• Participate actively to product documentation, for the functionalities you have specified
• Participate to product second line support by analyzing reported customer issues and providing resolution recommendation
• Maintain regular contact with fellow business professionals and Regulatory bodies to discuss the effect and interpretation of regulatory changes and to maintain a high standard of business expertise

Requirements

• A solid academic background in Economics, Business Engineering, Banking and Finance or a strong affinity with those topics through prior relevant work experience.
• Strong interest, experience and/or knowledge of the financial industry (accounting principles, financial instruments)
• Experience of working with financial software, particularly regarding banking and regulatory data warehouses or reporting solutions
• Good understanding of how relational databases work and interested to become proficient in SQL
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Fluent in English (written and oral)
• Understanding of banking regulation such as BASEL III, IV, IFRS 9 or any other reporting experience within the financial industry is a must

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