Lead Business Analyst - Trade Finance

We are looking for someone who lead end-to-end business analysis for Trade Finance digitisation initiatives, leveraging strong domain expertise across Letters of Credit, Collections, Open Account Financing, Export Financing and Islamic Trade Finance. Responsible for translating business requirements into functional specifications, designing end-to-end trade workflows, defining system integrations with core banking platforms such as T24, SWIFT and other banking applications, and ensuring operational controls, regulatory compliance and successful implementation through SIT, UAT and Go-Live. 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. - Work closely 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 ensure alignment with approved business requirements. - Lead functional discussions, resolve business queries and support defect prioritisation 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 stabilisation.

Lead end-to-end business analysis for Trade Finance digitisation initiatives. Translate business requirements into functional specifications, design end-to-end trade workflows, define system integrations with core banking platforms (T24, SWIFT, and other banking applications), and ensure operational controls, regulatory compliance, and successful implementation through SIT, UAT and Go-Live. Responsibilities include gathering and documenting requirements for Trade Finance products, defining end-to-end workflows (initiation, validation, approvals, processing, financing, settlement, closure), preparing BRDs and FSDs, collaborating with Trade Finance Product, Operations, Compliance, Risk, IT and vendors, defining system integration points, ensuring controls and audit trails, supporting Conventional and Islamic Trade Finance product design, reviewing designs, leading functional discussions and defect prioritisation, driving SIT/UAT/testing, identifying gaps and opportunities for automation, leveraging AI tools for analysis and UI/UX wireframes, and supporting implementation partners through delivery and post-Go-Live stabilization.