Job Title: Corporate Bank Technology – Core Banking & Payments – Lead Business Analyst

Corporate Title: AVP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery. At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel.

You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production support.

Corporate Banking is a technology centric business, with an increasing move to real-time processing, an increasing appetite from customers for integrated systems and access to supporting data. This means that technology is more important than ever for the business.

Deutsche Bank is one of the few banks with the scale and network to compete aggressively in this space, and the breadth of investment in this area is unmatched by our peers. Joining the team is a unique opportunity to help rebuild the core of some of our most mission critical processing systems from the ground-up.

Our Corporate Bank Technology team is a global team of 3000 coders (and growing!) across 30 countries. The primary businesses that Corporate Bank support are Cash Management, Securities Services, Trade Finance and Trust & Agency Services. CB Technology support these businesses through CIO aligned teams and also by 'horizontals' such as Client Connectivity, Surveillance and Regulatory, Infrastructure, Architecture, Production, and Risk & Control.

About the Team

Core Banking: Core Banking and Client Statements has an end-to-end responsibility for application development and management of the respective application portfolio. The portfolio covers Core Products that GTB offers to its international clients like DDA/Cash Accounts, Core Banking, Liquidity, Payments Processing and Clearing and F/X payments globally. It is also the global cash settlement platform for all other business lines.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you will enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under child care assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Flexible working arrangements
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

What You’ll Do

As part of our global team, you will work on various components as a Senior Business Analyst. The Senior Business Analyst for the Core banking and Payment’s area will focus on deciphering and finalizing Business and Functional Requirements from the Market requirements documentation and acts as the interface between Business and solution providers for all aspects of agreed requirements / solutions. This involves Change the Bank projects from F2B Cash processing and IDMS (Asia Core Banking) approved book of work – which will include regulatory changes, transformational programs or essential maintenance.

• Prepare the Business Requirements document, working closely with the Demand Manager and the relevant BPMs. Ability to analyze the Market Requirement Document along with the BPMs and Demand manager.
• Prepare/Review Solution / Functional requirement specifications, working closely with Delivery manager, Application Owners / Solution Architects in solution requirement & solution maintenance areas.
• Communicate the proposed requirement specifications with all stakeholders including interface partners & Production Support to deliver the requirements effectively till the implementation phase within the agreed timeliness & cost.
• Support testing on behalf users, operations and testing teams including reviewing test plan, test cases and test scenarios and when required support testing with interface partners.
• Working alongside CTB project deliveries including the appointed vendor, to ensure a smooth transition into BAU support model after project go-Lives.
• Maintaining a good relationship with the key business representatives identified for each enhancement / project.
• Where applicable provide other relevant support as required by delivery manager like financial forecasting, financial allocation key computations and source code review.
• Working closely with developers to resolve functional issues from User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in formulating solutions to various functional / technical issues.
• Support Application management area (Application Owner and L3 team) for functional area trouble shooting and resolution to reported bugs on the application.
• Coordinate with all stakeholders (interface partners, Production Support, Operations etc) to ensure the changes are verified after deployment in production.
• Quality check of requirement specifications, high/low level design, test plan eg. test cases & test scenarios and source code review performed by offshore delivery team

Your skills and experience

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in software development project especially working experience in Business requirement detailing the solution into functional System Requirement Specifications.
• Proven track record in delivery of functional & technical solution / requirements
• Strong Analytical skills and organized with strong awareness of risk controls
• Good written / spoken communication skills in English
• Good interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Basic accounting knowledge or sub ledgers and how they operate
• Strong Demand Deposit Account (DDA) & Payment product knowledge
• Ability to learn and adapt to complex state of the art of DDA processing system.
• Used to working to tight deadlines and flagging potential problems at an early stage
• Proficient in basic level understanding of technical aspects including Cobol, MS Excel, Unix Operating System, middleware eg. MQ Websphere, Oracle and Java.

Education | Certification (Recommended):
Graduate degree from accredited college or university with a concentration in computer science, or Business, Finance (or equivalent computer diploma and/ or relevant work experience)

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.htm

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.