Senior Functional Analyst – Finacle Core Banking

About
We are currently looking for a Senior Functional Analyst – Finacle Core Banking for our UAE operations.

Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Review and validate end-to-end financial workflows within the Finacle Core Banking system, ensuring they align 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 across 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 programme team to review functional design documents, system configurations, and product programmes 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)