Assistant Vice President, Senior Analyst – Business Technology Analysis – Asia, Global Commercial and Corporate Banking Technology and Operations recruitment
Overview
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving more than 59 million consumer and small business relationships with more than 6,100 retail banking offices, nearly 18,700 ATMs and award-winning online banking with nearly 29 million active users. Following the acquisition of Merrill Lynch on January 1, 2009, Bank of America is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to more than 4 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients in more than 150 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Job Description
Bank of America operates in multiple countries outside of the U.S., offering a wide variety of products and services to clients. In Asia-Pacific, product offerings are currently centered in Corporate and Investment banking, Securities, and Wealth management.
GCCIBT (Global Commercial, Corporate and Investment Banking Technology) support initiative delivery, maintenance and production support for Global Products Solutions and Global Corporate and Commercial Banking Center Client Services.
The Asia Corporate Banking Technology group within GCCIBT Asia provides technical analysis, delivery management and development for regional Corporate Banking and Treasury related initiatives. The focus is on regional system development leveraging local vendors where appropriate and enforcing risk governance and compliance to bank standard technologies.
The role of a Senior Technical Business Analyst/Delivery Manager in the Asia Corporate Banking Development group is to manage end-to-end application development initiatives. The person should demonstrate strong experience in vendor management and in the Payment and Treasury Management domain.
Responsibilities
· Manage multiple projects of significant complexity. Manage end to end solution delivery involving multiple teams and functions. Work with Business users and representatives to elicit, define and prioritize requirements. Review business and functional requirements and assess impact and scope of the change
· Liaise between the business units, technology teams, delivery and support teams to arrive at optimal solutions. Facilitate Walkthroughs for requirement and solution assessments.
· Collaborate with Architects, Developers and Subject Matter Experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs. Document technical solutions/specifications
· Secure required technology resource and create plans for technical delivery - ensure deliverables for all teams are scheduled. Assist in the production of RFIs and RFPs when tendering to vendors and external suppliers, and in the subsequent review and selection. Establish SOW with vendor, monitor vendor progress throughout the project life cycle
· Ensure project requirements are delivered by IT and/or vendors as specified. Assist Test Managers in formulating Test Strategy and review Test Packs to ensure coverage of functional requirements.
· Support business through UAT. Review development release plans to UAT and Production and liaise with the implementation team to ensure adherence.
· Ensure correct use of enterprise-wide methodologies, toolkits and process standards. Communicate project status, resource constrains and open issues to Change Manager and Programme Lead in a timely manner. Address technical queries and issues arising from users, vendors, and developers. Provide coaching to team members in support of their professional development
Requirements
· Ability to elicit requirements using interviews, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits.
· Ability to produce business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally. Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider teams in team meetings via teleconference.
· Can critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
· Proactively communicates and collaborates with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements.
· Successfully engages in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
· Strong analytical and creative thinking skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
· Broad based IT knowledge and experience (Hardware, Networking, Middleware)
· Application development knowledge and experience (J2EE, Design, Analysis)
· Industry best practices in Architectural methodologies and standards (e.g., Zachman, CMM/I, Rational Unified Process, IEEE-1471, etc...)
· Ability to provide architectural direction based on balanced Risk, Financial, Process, and Resource factors. Ability to translate complex concepts into architectural "views"