Technical Consultant

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

We are looking for a committed and competent Business Analyst to join our international team. You will act as a key interface between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that business needs are clearly understood, analyzed, and translated into well-defined technical requirements.
You will work closely with business stakeholders, software engineers, technology vendors, and other technical teams to support the design and delivery of effective solutions.

Key tasks
Gather, analyze, and understand business requirements from internal and external stakeholders.
Translate business needs into clear and structured functional and technical requirements that can be implemented by development teams.
Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and software engineers, ensuring a common understanding of requirements and expected outcomes.
Analyze existing business processes, applications, interfaces, and data flows to identify appropriate solutions.
Understand the Avaloq Core Banking Platform and the corresponding banking business processes and functional areas.
Prepare and maintain requirements, functional specifications, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
Support developers during solution design and implementation by clarifying business and functional requirements.
Support testing and validation activities to ensure that delivered solutions meet the agreed business requirements.
Assist in root cause analysis and the resolution of functional and production issues.
Ensure all documentation aligns with internal standards and best practices. Regularly review and update existing documentation to reflect any changes in processes or systems.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Information Systems, Finance, or an equivalent field.

3+ years of relevant experience as a Business Analyst, Functional Analyst, Technical Business Analyst, or in a similar role within banking or financial services.

Experience with documenting business requirements and functional specifications

Familiarity with developing user stories and use cases

Strong knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL.

Strong German and international tax expertise, particularly in CRS, FATCA and US QI, combined with a solid understanding of their impact on banking processes and regulatory requirements.

Experience with Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), including understanding data integration processes, mappings, interfaces, and ETL/data flows is considered an advantage.

Excellent analytical skills and a structured approach to problem solving.

Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.

Quality-conscious, self-motivated, and goal-oriented.

Open-minded team player with strong communication skills and proficiency in written and spoken English.

Willingness to develop strong knowledge of the Avaloq platform and complete relevant Avaloq training and certifications Analyst 

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.