Senior Business Analyst (Tax Regulatory Reporting)

Direct Responsibilities Mandatory experience in topics or any of the topic related to Tax Regulatory on any of the following: German Tax, Client Tax Statement Reporting, AEOI/CRS, FATCA, IRS871m - in order to advise or challenge - requirements given functionally and solution proposition by the DEV Team Gather the requirements from End Users, Product Owner Write DFS (Detailed Functional specifications) /GFS (General Functional specifications) or user stories and confirm the understanding with the developers. Perform analysis with the PO or BA’s of other applications squads/teams when involved in multi-systems features and interfaces. Work with developers on system design and development/unit testing. Work with the testing team to review SIT strategy, test cases and results to ensure quality of delivery and conduct SIT to ensure quality of delivery. Support UAT (reproduce issues, monitoring, fixing with the team). Support Project delivery and ensure requirements are in-place in Production. Assist the Project Manager and/or DEV team on any governance, security or architecture related follow-up or deliverables. A technical-functional knowledge is required in order to achieve this. Assists stakeholders in diagnosing problems and recognizing issues. Takes time to help them identify critical connections, consequences, and alternatives. Recognizes typical as well as complex and unusual issues, and actions needed to advance the decision-making process. Recommends possible solutions. In addition, as Business Analyst, you are expected to: Organize and run dedicated meetings or committees. Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal third parties to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artefacts as needed: GFS, DFS, Business process design, minutes, review and validation with Sponsors, presentation etc. Analyze gaps in functionality and processes between European and Asian sites and propose solutions to converge and align them into a common design. Be the liaison between the Project Manager (and Business side) and Technology teams. Participate to the full development lifecycle including design, estimation, planning, development support, test support, release, implementation & guarantee support. Technical & Behavioral Competencies Skills & Experience: Experience in working with large distributed IT teams At least 8+ years of experience in the banking IT field (private banking) At least 5+ years of experience working on Regulatory topics Good knowledge on Private banking operations and financial products Good understanding of project lifecycle and experience in functional and technical specification Highly analytical, able to investigate, troubleshoot and determine issues at root cause Mandatory (Functional Skills) Mandatory experience on any of the given topics: Tax Regulatory, Performance topics , German Tax reporting, Client Tax Statement Reporting, AEOI/CRS, FATCA, IRS871m Knowledge of private banking operations and financial products Knowledge on Banking systems (similar to Olympic, TRANSACT, AAA) Mandatory (Technical Skills) IT experience: general knowledge (SQL) Excel (example: how to do VLOOKUP, creating pivots) Mandatory (Soft Skills) Excellent written and oral communication skills in multi-cultural environment Good presentation skills Must be able to work and collaborate with other team members – both Business and IT Must be able to work on flexible hours(weekends, European hours) during tax reporting period Good To Have Organization and management of tests (SIT /Non-regression, UAT) Methodology (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall) JIRA, Confluence and Release Management Tools Knowledge on Reporting systems (similar to EasyTax, FiTax, SECTRAS, WM Daten, SIX) Knowledge on different German Tax reports for Private banking clients Exposure to applications revolving around: Client Management Systems, Data warehouse, Batch processing of reports