Treasury Business Analyst Tech Lead, Bilingual Japanese - CareerVite, LLC

Treasury BA Tech Lead role plans and implements treasury applications in coordination with other technical teams, business departments and Tokyo application support teams.

Treasury BA Tech Lead supports the FOREX and Treasury Dealing Support System that interface with various internal/external applications in NA/EMEA and the Tokyo Head Office. FOREX system handles Foreign Exchange (Spot, Forward, Option and Swap) trading/booking system for internal bank staff. Its staff operates Treasury Dealing Support System to book Money, CD, CP, Time Deposit, Facility, Security Trade, Security Inventory, Derivative, Repo, Reverse Repo and Collateral.
The bank is driving System Grand Design (SGD) initiative to restructure global treasury technology ecosystem. This BA role is expected to build capability to drive the SGD projects and also support the newly introduced applications post Go Live.

Role Objectives: Delivery

• Daily routine include servicing business user inquiry, production issues and on-going application maintenance activities.
• Acts as a business analyst with technical expertise who is the main contact from business users including treasury back office, payment, risk management department and treasury front office.
• Works cross-functionally on multi-disciplinary projects to assist the creation of business requirement documents.
• Reports to the Head of Treasury & HOMIS.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery against a portfolio of programs for a dedicated business unit and/or region.
• Deploy team resources against individual programs.
• Establish clear framework to define program stakeholders, scope, timing, resource requirements and deliverables.
• Design and implement standardized templates and communication channels to drive transparency and consistency across program effort.
• Supervise creation of program management offices (PMOs) and assignment of clear roles and responsibilities to establish ownership of program work-streams and deliverables.
• Guide program leads in identifying and mobilizing subject matter experts throughout the organization to contribute as required.
• Monitor delivery across portfolio of programs under coverage to ensure completeness, sustainability and adherence to budgets.
• Review and sign off on milestones and completion proposals.
• Direct modifications to program plans, budgets and/or timelines as necessary.

Qualifications and Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in both Japanese and English are required.
• Acts as a business analyst with technical expertise who is the main contact from business users including treasury back office, payment, risk management department and treasury front office.
• Advanced knowledge of financial products including but not limited to Money, CD, CP, Time Deposit, Facility, Security Trade, Security Inventory, Derivative, FX (Spot, Forward, Option and Swap), Repo, Reverse Repo and Collateral.
• Back office business analysis and design experience including payment, settlement, cash flow, accounting and reconciliation is a plus.
• Meets with business users to gather requirements including facilitating discussions and necessary follow-ups to close all outstanding questions and concerns.
• Gathers and documents functional requirements and produces detailed functional specifications.
• Develops use cases with the business and ensures the proper testing is completed.
• Works on large projects to follow-up on plans, mitigate issues and risks, and coordinates relevant parties including Tokyo Head Office teams. Ability to work on cross-functional teams in a fast-paced development environment. Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Works on system maintenance and business user support.
• Basic knowledge of project management methodology/SDLC processes in IT financial services environments is a plus.
• Experience managing IT projects in international banking environment is a plus.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience preferred but not required.
• Experience with SQL, UNIX/LINUX, MQ is a plus