Lead Business Analyst/Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Japan.

📋 Description

• Oversee business analysis efforts within intricate risk, compliance, and financial crime transformation initiatives.

• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to identify business challenges, regulatory obligations, operational workflows, and technology requirements.

• Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions, stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process evaluations.

• Convert business and regulatory needs into functional specifications.

• Create Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), user stories, process diagrams, use cases, and acceptance criteria.

• Assess current-state processes and outline future-state processes.

• Collaborate with architects, developers, QA teams, product owners, compliance subject matter experts, and project managers.

• Act as a trusted business analyst and subject-matter expert for client stakeholders.

• Lead meetings and workshops, presenting findings, recommendations, process designs, and solution specifications.

• Assist in project planning, resource allocation, task management, timelines, dependencies, governance, status reporting, and client communication.

• Coordinate distributed onshore and offshore teams.

• Monitor requirements, deliverables, risks, issues, and dependencies across various workstreams.

• Develop and evaluate functional test scenarios and acceptance criteria.

• Aid in system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing, defect management, implementation, deployment, go-live, and post-production processes.

• Validate delivered solutions against business and regulatory standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in Business Analysis, ideally within financial services, banking, fintech, or consulting sectors.

• Demonstrated experience as a Lead or Senior Business Analyst on complex enterprise technology projects.

• Extensive domain knowledge in risk and compliance.

• Practical experience in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), sanctions, transaction monitoring, trade surveillance, fraud/risk management, or financial crime compliance.

• Proficient in preparing BRDs, FSDs, requirements specifications, process diagrams, user stories, and functional documentation.

• Proven track record of working directly with clients and senior business stakeholders.

• Strong comprehension of the software development and project delivery lifecycle.

• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, communication, and presentation abilities.

• Capability to translate intricate business and regulatory requirements into clear functional specifications.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams.

• Familiarity with NICE Actimize or other risk, AML, sanctions, fraud, or compliance technology platforms is a plus.

• Experience managing workstreams or small teams is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

• Significant opportunities for career advancement.

• A stimulating and engaging work environment.

• A diverse and inclusive culture that promotes collaboration, continuous learning, and growth.