Experience Required: 12 years (minimum) of relevant Business Analyst experience
Location: Mumbai
Work Mode: Hybrid
Joining: Immediate to 15 days
Domain:Trade Finance (Mandatory)
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with a strong background in Trade Finance to partner closely with Technology, Product, and Operations teams. The ideal candidate will have deep analytical skills, the ability to influence stakeholders, and hands-on experience translating business needs into detailed functional requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the primary liaison between Technology, Product Leads, and Operations stakeholders.
- Capture, analyze, and validate business requirements, ensuring alignment with business priorities and technology capabilities.
- Facilitate requirements gathering, scope definition, and prioritization discussions.
- Create and maintain Epics, User Stories, and all relevant project documentation.
- Develop detailed functional specifications, including ASIS and TOBE process flows.
- Provide end-to-end functional support throughout the project lifecyclefrom requirement analysis to testing phases (SIT, UAT).
- Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure clear understanding of functional specifications.
- Manage requirement changes in line with project governance.
- Build use cases and work with business teams to secure sign-off on requirements, test scenarios, and implementation readiness.
- Drive successful go-live through training, product demos, and creation of user documentation.
- Lead/mentor a team of Business Analysts in delivering complete functional solutions.
- Participate in solution design/architecture discussions for target-state processes.
- Leverage AI tools to enhance requirement gathering, documentation, and analysis workflows.
Qualifications & Skills
- 12+ years of relevant Business Analysis experience (minimum).
- Mandatory: Hands-on experience of 6+ years in Trade Finance domain.
- Proven experience working with business users and SMEs to gather requirements and assess risks/options.
- Strong ability to create detailed business and functional requirement documents.
- Experience writing functional system requirement specifications.
- Comfortable engaging directly with Senior Business Stakeholders and Operations teams.
- Strong analytical mindset with high attention to detail and strong communication skills.
- Proficiency in:
- MS Excel
- Jira
- Mind Maps
- SQL
- Good understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies.
- Ability to lead BA teams and deliver end-to-end functional solutions.
- Understanding of programming basics (Java/Python) is an added advantage.
- Ability to synthesize large sets of information and ask the right questions to clarify requirements.
- Experience with AI tools for documentation, analysis, and automation is a plus.
