# Senior Business Analyst

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Guangzhou, Guangdong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Business Analyst.

Principal responsibilities:

- Lead requirement scoping, business analysis, and functional design for transforming legacy core banking and customer data systems into modernized target platforms.

- Analyze online transactions, screen workflows, and batch processes to define common user journeys, functional specifications, and detailed user stories with technical acceptance criteria.

- Act as the primary bridge between Business Operations, Product Owners, and IT delivery teams (API, backend, and testing) to ensure solutions align with operational needs and technical feasibility.

- Drive end-to-end delivery across the project lifecycle, including requirement sign-off, screen-to-screen mapping, show-and-tell demos, UAT planning, live proofing (PVT), and rollout support.

- Embed operational risk controls, data governance policies, and regulatory audit standards into system requirements.

- Manage backlog prioritization, resolve screen and system dependencies, and escalate delivery risks and blockers to project leadership and governance committees.

- Support legacy system decommissioning by analyzing legacy data structures, screen dependencies, and operational workarounds to ensure seamless migration to target platforms.

- Provide post-implementation support, incident analysis, and continuous process enhancements during BAU transition.

Requirements:

- Strong domain knowledge of Hong Kong banking operations, customer data, and core banking systems.

- In-depth understanding of banking products and servicing processes.

- Practical understanding of KYC, customer onboarding, and account lifecycle servicing operations.

- Solid grasp of banking risk governance, operational risk controls, and internal/external audit remediation.

- Working knowledge of banking regulatory standards, data privacy, audit logging, and statutory data retention requirements.

Technical skills:

- Proven track record of working in Agile, Scrum, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environments.

- Practical experience in legacy system migration.

- Understanding of modern enterprise application architecture.

- Proficiency in project and requirement management tools, particularly Jira and Confluence.

- Strong technical problem-solving capabilities.

- Familiarity with CI/CD delivery pipelines.

Communication and soft skills:

- Proven stakeholder management capability.

- Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills.

- Demonstrated experience facilitating cross-functional workshops.

- High adaptability and resilience in managing multiple priorities.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Others:

- University degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

- Minimum 5 years of business analysis or project delivery experience within banking IT.

- Professional certifications in Agile or Project Management are highly preferred.

## Skills

### Required
- Agile
- Scrum
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Jira
- Confluence
- Legacy system migration
- Microservices
- Process APIs (PAPI)
- frontend/UI frameworks
- backend data integration
- CI/CD delivery pipelines
- KYC
- Customer onboarding
- Account lifecycle servicing operations
- Banking risk governance
- Operational risk controls
- Data privacy
- Audit logging
- Statutory data retention requirements

### Nice to have
- Professional certifications in Agile or Project Management
- Experience collaborating with global shared services (GSC) and offshore delivery centres

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