Finacle Core Banking

About the Role
We are currently seeking a Senior Functional Analyst specialized in Finacle Core Banking for our UAE operations. The successful candidate will play a critical role in validating financial workflows and ensuring they are aligned with the bank's accounting policies and regulatory requirements.

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Review and validate end-to-end financial workflows within the Finacle Core Banking system, ensuring alignment with the bank's accounting policies, chart of accounts, and reporting requirements.
• Prepare, document, and execute functional test cases covering finance-related scenarios, including General Ledger (GL) postings, account reconciliation, period-end closing, and financial reporting outputs.
• Verify the accuracy of accounting entries generated by Finacle for all banking products and transactions, including Loans, Deposits, Payments, and Cards, ensuring correct debit/credit treatment and GL mapping.
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as a key Finance function representative, reviewing test results and providing formal sign-off on finance-critical scenarios.
• Work closely with the migration program team to review functional design documents, system configurations, and product programs from a finance and accounting perspective.
• Identify and log functional gaps, accounting discrepancies, or workflow deviations discovered during testing, and follow through to resolution with the technical and implementation teams.
• Validate that financial reports generated from Finacle, including regulatory reports, management accounts, and statutory statements, are complete, accurate, and consistent with the bank's requirements.
• Support parallel-run activities during migration by comparing outputs from the legacy system against Finacle to identify and resolve discrepancies.
• Liaise with the Finance team, Operations, and the Core Banking migration team to ensure all finance function requirements are captured, communicated, and addressed in the system.

Joining Time Frame:

• 2 weeks (maximum 1 month)