About the Role
We are seeking a skilled professional to lead end-to-end business analysis for Trade Finance digitization initiatives. This position will leverage strong domain expertise across various areas, including Letters of Credit, Collections, Open Account Financing, Export Financing, and Islamic Trade Finance. You will be responsible for translating business requirements into functional specifications, designing comprehensive trade workflows, defining system integrations with core banking platforms such as T24 and SWIFT, and ensuring operational controls, regulatory compliance, and successful implementation through System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Go-Live activities.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation for Trade Finance products and business processes.
- Define end-to-end workflows covering transaction initiation, validation, approvals, processing, financing, settlement, and closure.
- Prepare Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), process flows, use cases, and user stories.
- Collaborate with Trade Finance Product, Operations, Compliance, Risk, IT, and technology vendors to translate business needs into functional solutions.
- Define system requirements and integration points with core banking systems (T24), SWIFT, sanctions screening, limits, collateral, and document management platforms.
- Ensure appropriate controls for transaction processing, document verification, four-eyes approvals, duplicate financing prevention, and audit trails.
- Support the design and implementation of Conventional and Islamic Trade Finance products, ensuring adherence to Sharia principles wherever applicable.
- Review functional designs and specifications to confirm alignment with approved business requirements.
- Lead functional discussions, resolve business queries, and support defect prioritization during development and testing.
- Drive SIT, UAT, test scenario preparation, defect management, and business sign-off.
- Identify process gaps, operational inefficiencies, and opportunities for workflow automation and digital transformation.
- Leverage AI-enabled tools for requirements analysis, process mapping, and indicative UI/UX wireframe development.
- Support implementation partners throughout delivery, deployment, and post-Go-Live stabilization.
Requirements
- 110+ years of overall experience in banking or financial services, primarily in business analysis, including at least 6 years in the trade finance space – letters of credit, documentary collections, and trade financing programs.
- Islamic trade finance experience is essential: hands-on delivery of Islamic trade products such as Murabaha-based Letters of Credit or trade financing, including working with a Sharia supervisory board or committee on product structures and controls.
- Experience leading business analysis on at least two end-to-end trade finance implementations – trade portals, trade workflow, or core banking trade modules – taken from requirements through Go-Live.
- Awareness of Temenos T24 trade finance modules is preferred, though not essential.
- A track record of crafting digital journeys and shaping product backlogs in a product owner or proxy product owner capacity.
- Hands-on use of generative AI tools in business analysis – drafting requirements, process flows, and indicative wireframes – within appropriate data and control boundaries.
- Experience specifying SWIFT trade messaging, sanctions screening, and trade-based money laundering controls.
- UAE or wider GCC banking experience is strongly preferred, with working familiarity with CBUAE regulatory expectations.
