Group Technology & Operations – Lead Functional Specialist, SAP (AVP) 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.

Business Description
AS - Finance and Accounting Team is looking for a Functional Analyst based in Singapore. This role is ideal for an IT analyst looking for a challenging and rewarding role, with a very strong understanding of Finance regulatory group/local reporting.

Position Overview
The Lead Functional Specialist is responsible and seen as the leader regarding activities which translate complex requirements from Business Analysts into functional specifications which serve as the basis for technical solutions.

Lead Functional Specialists acts as the day- to-day leader of work efforts in this area across a team and/or serves as a senior subject matter expert providing support across development related work efforts and projects.

Responsibilities
• Analyses business requirements documentation and other artifacts received from Domain Management.

• Responsible for formulating and creating functional specification documentation, in close collaboration with business analysts, application owners and solution architects.

• Primary lead to create and modify business facing documentation (e.g. user manuals, solution briefs, functional summaries).

• Provides functional competence towards software effort estimation needs, whenever required (including adoption of function point analysis tools).

• 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.

• Works with application developers to resolve functional issues from user acceptance testing (UATs) and to help find solutions for various functional difficulty areas.

• Work closely with Business Analysts in solution detailing and solution maintenance areas.

• Acts as a primary resource for functional detailing to assist Business Analysts in Domain Management, with development of their deliverables.

• Be a primary source of requirement details towards software solution architects, developers and testers.

Requirements
• Relevant experience.

• Influencing capabilities

• Profound knowledge of methods and tools for functional specifications

• Able to quickly grasp new contexts

• Basic knowledge of technical aspects including middleware

• Used to working to tight deadlines and identifying problems at an early stage

• Flexibility and willingness to work autonomously

• Self motivated within set competencies in a team and fast paced environments

• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail

• Minimum 8 years experience as functional / business analyst in medium to large scale regulatory applications.

• Strong analytical skill and experience in defines and collects business requirements in collaboration with business partners.

• Strong communication and documentation skill. Experience in functional documentation traceability.

• Experience in functional area trouble shooting and resolution to reported bugs / issues on applications.

• Able to support newly identified conceptual designs and newly identified business solution options.

• Work experience in SAP BW and BCS.

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer Science or an IT-related diploma (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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