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First VP, Functional Business Analyst (BAU & Tactical Projects), Group Technology

Employer
United Overseas Bank
Location
Singapore, Singapore
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
May 19, 2022

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Job Function
Other
Industry Sector
Finance - General
Employment Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelors
First VP, Functional Business Analyst (BAU & Tactical Projects), Group Technology

Posting Date: 02-May-2022

Location: Raffles Place, Singapore, SG

Company: United Overseas Bank Limited

About UOB
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices.
Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values - Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

About the Department
The Retail function provides Personal and Business Banking customers with financial solutions tailored to their needs. We help them manage their money wisely and meet their financial goals through an extensive range of products and services. These include deposit, insurance, secured and unsecured loans, investment and wealth advisory services.

Personal Financial Services
We design and provide products and services that empower our customers to enjoy greater banking convenience while they extract more value from their money. In particular, we are focused on promoting and developing healthy saving and investment practices across generations.

Job Responsibilities
1. Stakeholder Relationship Management
  • Act as a trusted advisor for business for all new business demands requiring technology or operations enablement / solution
  • Prioritize business requests and co-create Business Roadmap with business segments
  • Support Function Head for project pipeline, pre-project planning activities, QR prioritization
  • Support effective business change by building relationships with business leaders, technology and operational business partners
2. High Level Solutioning
  • Develop high-level solution to illustrate feasibility of achieving target business outcomes
  • Align high-level solution with organizational technology roadmap and strategy working in consultation with enterprise architecture and business technology services teams
  • Work effectively with the business users and internal technology teams to ensure all aspects of the business requirement is defined and analysed
  • Initiate the implementation plan for Group Technology & Operations (GTO) projects. This will include all activities that the business needs to do to prepare for new operation process and technical components.
3. Change Implementation Planning & Management
  • Undertake scoping and evaluation of new initiatives. Define overall considerations, including scalability, maintainability, cost, operations and technology principal risk to provide a recommendation
  • Lead and collaborate with cross-functional and technical teams including business analysts, solution architect, business technology services teams, and testing teams to define/clarify requirements
  • Work with Group Banking Technology team on the smooth delivery of the solution
  • Review Test Strategy, help plan and support the user acceptance testing and help address any issues. Ensures that there is a business perspective on how the new operations and technical capabilities will be delivered to the business.
  • Spot potential problems, recognize the risk impact and propose risk mitigation strategies.
4. Managing RUN
  • Manage the communication and regular updates to business stakeholders on 'critical' production incidents and problems impacting customer and business operations
  • Lead the regular review with business on system stability, responsiveness, production incident, problem tickets including identification of root cause.
  • Track for continuous improvement. Ensure early identification and resolution of challenges impacting BAU systems.
  • Monitor the fulfilment of service levels between GTO and the business segments and highlighting required actions to close gaps where needed
5. Sustainable Improvements
  • Build a sustainable process for measuring benefits to ensure resources are aligned to business initiatives which provide the highest ROI.
  • Improve systems by studying current practices; designing modifications.


Job Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering/ business/ finance or equivalent
  • Minimum 10 years of relevant banking and/or consulting experience
  • Strong business domain knowledge in banking. In particular Retail Banking products such as Core Banking, Online Banking, Retail Consumer Products (e.g. Mortgage, CASA, Deposits, Cards)
  • Strong quantitative, analytical, problem solving and process design skills that can translate analysis into solutions that meet business objectives
  • Understanding of technology and operational processes across functions / departments in the bank/market.
  • Resourceful team player
  • Familiar with change management processes and project management fundamentals
  • Strategic forward thinking approach to challenges with outstanding communications, influencing, negotiating and persuasion skills
  • Passionate, diligent and resilient individual with ability to thrive in ambiguity
  • Experience in scoping and evaluation - Defining overall considerations, including scalability, maintainability, cost, operations and technology principal risk to provide a recommendation


Be a part of UOB Family
UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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