About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Requirements Gathering and Business Analysis Engage with business stakeholders across Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Finance, Risk, and Regulatory Reporting teams to capture and document reporting, data extraction, and information delivery requirements. Translate business requirements into clear, structured functional requirements, user stories, and use cases for delivery by the vendor. Develop a strong conceptual understanding of Murex reporting capabilities to ensure requirements align with current platform functionality. Perform impact analysis across reports, extracts, interfaces, and downstream data consumers.
- Vendor Liaison and Solution Coordination Act as the primary liaison between business users and the vendor, ensuring requirements are clearly communicated, understood, and implemented correctly. Facilitate requirement walkthroughs, clarifications, and design discussions between stakeholders and vendor teams. Review vendor-proposed solutions and validate alignment with business reporting requirements, data definitions, and operational processes. Ensure traceability between requirements, vendor deliverables, and business outcomes.
- Functional Domain Support (Working Knowledge) Maintain a working understanding of key reporting areas to support discussions, requirement definition, and validation: SQL and data query concepts Data mapping Management, Operational, Risk, Finance, and Regulatory Reporting Use this knowledge to challenge requirements, identify gaps, and ensure completeness rather than performing hands-on development or report configuration.
- Testing Support and Coordination Work with business users to define test scenarios and acceptance criteria aligned with documented requirements. Create, book, and manage test cases, and support overall test planning. Assist business users during SIT and UAT by clarifying requirements, supporting issue investigation, and coordinating with the vendor for defect resolution. Validate report outputs, data extracts, field mappings, calculations, and reconciliation results against business expectations. Track defects, ensure proper triage, and maintain requirement-to-test traceability. Validate that delivered functionality meets business expectations, while business users retain ownership of execution.
- Stakeholder Communication Serve as the central communication point across business stakeholders, vendor teams, and internal technology teams. Manage requirement sign-offs, testing readiness checkpoints, and change communication. Clearly communicate impacts, dependencies, risks, and timelines to both technical and non-technical audiences. Facilitate discussions regarding data sourcing, report ownership, and report consumption requirements.
- Project Execution and Support Support delivery activities across project phases including requirement definition, design review, testing coordination, and implementation readiness. Contribute to backlog grooming, sprint ceremonies, and documentation. Assist with training material preparation and business readiness activities where required. Support report inventory reviews, reporting rationalization efforts, and migration activities. Provide post-implementation support to ensure smooth adoption and issue resolution.
Skills and Competencies
Strong business analysis and requirements translation skills, with the ability to bridge business and technical or vendor teams. Working knowledge of reporting and data extraction processes within financial services environments. Familiarity with SQL concepts, data structures, and relational databases. Understanding of Murex DataMart reporting and reporting architecture concepts. Understanding of downstream data distribution requirements. Experience supporting testing coordination, including test case management, defect tracking, and UAT support. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across business, reporting, finance, risk, and technology teams. Ability to understand data lineage, data mapping, and reporting dependencies across systems. Familiarity with Agile tools and delivery practices.
Typical Deliverables
Business Requirements Documents (BRD) Functional Specifications or Requirements Documents (FRD/FSD) User stories and acceptance criteria Report inventory and requirements documentation Data mapping and field mapping documentation Source-to-target mapping documents Report specifications and extract requirements Processing template requirements documentation Test scenarios, test cases, and traceability matrices Defect logs and UAT support material Reporting and extract validation documentation
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About VySystems
Vy Systems is a part of vy.ventures and is in the business of Technology consulting, Solutions, and Managed Services, providing invaluable services across many countries since 2002. We have formulated company policies and protocols based on our distinctive DNA that has evolved over two decades and strikes a good balance between IQ and EQ.
Our DNA incorporates/encompasses emotional components, Key analytical talents, intellectual abilities, plain old common sense, and presence of mind to solve issues and make important business decisions.
We adopt a people-centric culture that solves problems through passionate disagreements, encourages objective debates to arrive at consensual solutions, all of which translate into stellar service, thus enabling us to walk the talk to all stakeholders. The company’s values pivot on transparency, trust, reliability, responsiveness, and a soulful manner of conducting business.
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About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Requirements Gathering and Business Analysis Engage with business stakeholders across Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Finance, Risk, and Regulatory Reporting teams to capture and document reporting, data extraction, and information delivery requirements. Translate business requirements into clear, structured functional requirements, user stories, and use cases for delivery by the vendor. Develop a strong conceptual understanding of Murex reporting capabilities to ensure requirements align with current platform functionality. Perform impact analysis across reports, extracts, interfaces, and downstream data consumers.
- Vendor Liaison and Solution Coordination Act as the primary liaison between business users and the vendor, ensuring requirements are clearly communicated, understood, and implemented correctly. Facilitate requirement walkthroughs, clarifications, and design discussions between stakeholders and vendor teams. Review vendor-proposed solutions and validate alignment with business reporting requirements, data definitions, and operational processes. Ensure traceability between requirements, vendor deliverables, and business outcomes.
- Functional Domain Support (Working Knowledge) Maintain a working understanding of key reporting areas to support discussions, requirement definition, and validation: SQL and data query concepts Data mapping Management, Operational, Risk, Finance, and Regulatory Reporting Use this knowledge to challenge requirements, identify gaps, and ensure completeness rather than performing hands-on development or report configuration.
- Testing Support and Coordination Work with business users to define test scenarios and acceptance criteria aligned with documented requirements. Create, book, and manage test cases, and support overall test planning. Assist business users during SIT and UAT by clarifying requirements, supporting issue investigation, and coordinating with the vendor for defect resolution. Validate report outputs, data extracts, field mappings, calculations, and reconciliation results against business expectations. Track defects, ensure proper triage, and maintain requirement-to-test traceability. Validate that delivered functionality meets business expectations, while business users retain ownership of execution.
- Stakeholder Communication Serve as the central communication point across business stakeholders, vendor teams, and internal technology teams. Manage requirement sign-offs, testing readiness checkpoints, and change communication. Clearly communicate impacts, dependencies, risks, and timelines to both technical and non-technical audiences. Facilitate discussions regarding data sourcing, report ownership, and report consumption requirements.
- Project Execution and Support Support delivery activities across project phases including requirement definition, design review, testing coordination, and implementation readiness. Contribute to backlog grooming, sprint ceremonies, and documentation. Assist with training material preparation and business readiness activities where required. Support report inventory reviews, reporting rationalization efforts, and migration activities. Provide post-implementation support to ensure smooth adoption and issue resolution.
Skills and Competencies
Strong business analysis and requirements translation skills, with the ability to bridge business and technical or vendor teams. Working knowledge of reporting and data extraction processes within financial services environments. Familiarity with SQL concepts, data structures, and relational databases. Understanding of Murex DataMart reporting and reporting architecture concepts. Understanding of downstream data distribution requirements. Experience supporting testing coordination, including test case management, defect tracking, and UAT support. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across business, reporting, finance, risk, and technology teams. Ability to understand data lineage, data mapping, and reporting dependencies across systems. Familiarity with Agile tools and delivery practices.
Typical Deliverables
Business Requirements Documents (BRD) Functional Specifications or Requirements Documents (FRD/FSD) User stories and acceptance criteria Report inventory and requirements documentation Data mapping and field mapping documentation Source-to-target mapping documents Report specifications and extract requirements Processing template requirements documentation Test scenarios, test cases, and traceability matrices Defect logs and UAT support material Reporting and extract validation documentation
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About VySystems
Vy Systems is a part of vy.ventures and is in the business of Technology consulting, Solutions, and Managed Services, providing invaluable services across many countries since 2002. We have formulated company policies and protocols based on our distinctive DNA that has evolved over two decades and strikes a good balance between IQ and EQ.
Our DNA incorporates/encompasses emotional components, Key analytical talents, intellectual abilities, plain old common sense, and presence of mind to solve issues and make important business decisions.
We adopt a people-centric culture that solves problems through passionate disagreements, encourages objective debates to arrive at consensual solutions, all of which translate into stellar service, thus enabling us to walk the talk to all stakeholders. The company’s values pivot on transparency, trust, reliability, responsiveness, and a soulful manner of conducting business.