Group Technology & Operations – Functional Analyst – Up to AVP level recruitment
About Deutsche Bank
A Passion to Perform. It’s what drives us. More than a claim, this describes the way we do business. We’re committed to being the best financial services provider in the world, balancing passion with precision to deliver superior solutions for our clients. This is made possible by our people: agile minds, able to see beyond the obvious and act effectively in an ever-changing global business landscape. As you’ll discover, our culture supports this. Diverse, international and shaped by a variety of different perspectives, we’re driven by a shared sense of purpose. At every level agile thinking is nurtured. And at every level agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support and opportunities to excel.
About Group Technology and Operations
The strength of technology and operations is present in everything we achieve. Delivering tailored information technology and seamless transaction solutions is essential to Deutsche Bank’s global resilience. Pioneering technologies and reengineering processes, we combine exceptional levels of innovation with world-class client service. Our division designs and develops the systems, software and solutions that make millisecond transaction times cost-effective and reliable. Every second, we face the technological and logistical challenges implicit in growth, market change and constant competition.
Active in over 50 countries and employing around a fifth of our total staff, Group Technology Operations enfolds three crucial business areas. Technology is responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of leading-edge software applications. They create the core systems that process trades, assess risk and deliver data. Operations encompasses the people and processes that back up global deal-making. Every day, they make sure that billions of trades are settled, risk is minimized and clients are satisfied. Infrastructure provides global data centers, networks and services that are reliable, cost effective and scalable across all divisions. GTO is a known catalyst for change within our global Bank. We pride ourselves in our creativity, courage, adaptability and strategic vision. Maybe that’s why our unique processes have been recognized by a number of industry awards. Our primary task is to make the Bank efficient and responsive today, while building the foundation to meet the demands of tomorrow.
Position overview:
The Functional Analyst supports analysis of business requirements received from Business Analysts and is responsible translating these requirements into Functional Specifications and other deliverables required to enable solution development. Functional Analysts also help create and modify business-facing documentation such as user manuals and solution briefs.
Job responsibilities:
- Analyse business requirements documentation received from Domain Management
- Formulate and create Functional Specification documentation, in close working with Business Analysts and Application owners/Solution architects.
- Analyse technical project requirement documentation received from Application Management, for functional impacts.
- Create and modify business facing documentation (e.g. user manuals, solution briefs, functional summaries).
- Support testing on behalf of users, operations, and testing teams potentially including test plans, test cases, test-data and review of interface testing between different applications, when required.
- Work with application developers to resolve functional issues from user acceptance testing (UATs) to help find solutions for various functional issues.
- Work closely with business analysts in solution requirements and solution maintenance areas.
- Work with Application Management area for functional area trouble shooting and resolution to reported bugs / issues on applications.
Candidate requirements:
- Experience in IT
- Experience in working with business requirements and detailing them into System level Functional Specifications.
- Analytical ability to ensure comprehensiveness and detail level articulation of in analysing and specifying of functional details.
- Ability to communicate functional level details to technical analysts and solution developers – to support transition, translation and development.
- Knowledge of methods and tools used to write functional specification documents.
- Ability to quickly troubleshoot and establish functional issues in production, solution testing, etc.
- Experience in leading a team
- Experience in trade finance / billing domain a plus
- Possess basic level understanding of technical aspects including middleware, to independently run interfaces tests (between applications, services)
- BachelorsDegree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer Science or an IT-related discipline (or equivalent)
Deutsche Bank is an equal opportunity employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of marital status, sex (including pregnancy), age, religion, belief, race, nationality and ethnic or national origin, color, sexual orientation or disability.
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