Business Analyst — Avaloq Banking Transformation

About the Role:
As Business Analyst you are the bridge between business stakeholders and Avaloq delivery squads: you elicit and challenge requirements, shape them into Avaloq-executable functional designs, and stay accountable for them through build, SIT, UAT and go-live.
This is a hands-on delivery role on large, multi-workstream Avaloq programmes. You will own the requirement thread end to end — from a business pain point in the front office to a signed-off UAT result in production. Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Finance, Engineering or a related discipline.
• 5–10 years of Business Analysis experience, of which at least 3 years in banking or financial services.
• Avaloq: Hands-on delivery experience on the Avaloq Banking Suite — a firm requirement for this role.      You must be able to discuss Avaloq business objects, parameters and functional design decisions unaided.
• Demonstrated delivery on at least one large-scale core banking transformation programme, end to end.
• Greenfield: Proven exposure to a greenfield implementation, with end-to-end command of your workstream from initial design through to go-live.
• Cross-workstream:  Track record of coordinating across parallel workstreams — engaging other      workstream owners to surface cross-impacts, agree interface and data dependencies, and keep design decisions aligned programme-wide.
• Proven authorship of BRDs, FSDs, user stories, process maps and traceability matrices.
• Experience in both Agile and Waterfall delivery environments.
• Excellent written and verbal English, with the ability to write specifications that a developer can build from without further explanation.

TOOLS & TECHNICAL SKILLS
Avaloq Banking Suite (functional) · Requirements management · BPMN / Visio process modelling · JIRA & Azure DevOps · Confluence · SQL (preferred) · Advanced Excel (pivots, lookups, reconciliation) · Functional testing, SIT & UAT management · Business process re-engineering Key Responsibilities:
1. Requirements Engineering & Documentation

• Elicit requirements      through workshops, stakeholder interviews and process observation across      front, middle and back office.
• Translate business      needs into Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Specification      Documents (FSDs), user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Author      Avaloq-specific functional designs covering impacted business objects,      parameters, interfaces, reports and batch processing.
• Own and maintain the      Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) from business need through to test      evidence.
• Lead a functional      workstream end to end with the client and understand business scope,      requirements in full detail and granularity to shape the BRD for      development.

2. Process Analysis & Avaloq Solution Design

• Map "As-Is"      processes, define the "To-Be" target state, and perform gap and      impact analysis against standard Avaloq functionality.
• Distinguish standard      Avaloq capability from customisation, and justify every deviation on cost,      risk and upgrade impact.
• Work with Solution      Architects, Product Owners and Avaloq technical consultants to select the      optimal design option.
• Identify automation      and simplification candidates in manual operations, and quantify the      effort/benefit case for each.

3. Stakeholder Engagement & Governance

• Act as the primary      functional liaison between business users, operations, risk, compliance      and the delivery squads.
• Constructively      challenge senior stakeholders where requirements conflict, and drive them      to a single agreed position.
• Secure formal      sign-off on requirements and designs, and manage scope change through the      agreed governance process.
• Report progress,      risks, issues and dependencies clearly to programme management.

4. Agile Delivery & Backlog Management

• Build, refine and      prioritise the backlog in JIRA or Azure DevOps alongside the Product      Owner.
• Write      INVEST-compliant user stories with testable acceptance criteria.
• Participate in sprint      planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives; resolve requirement      clarifications within the sprint.

5. Delivery Assurance, Data Validation & Go-Live

• Design and review      test scenarios and test cases; drive SIT, UAT and business validation to      completion.
• Coordinate UAT      execution with business users and lead defect triage, prioritisation and      retesting.
• Support data      migration and reconciliation: field mapping, data quality analysis,      remediation rules and pre/post-migration validation.
• Support regulatory,      MIS and reporting workstreams where in scope.
• Prepare training      material and business readiness artefacts; support cutover, hypercare and      post-go-live stabilisation.

Insurance 
Career Development 
Flexible Work hours 
Learning Opportunities
Inclusive and collaborative work culture

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