First Vice President, Trade Application Lead, GMET Trade Technology

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

About the Department

Group Technology and Operations (GTO) provides software and system development, information technology support services and banking operations. We have centralized and standardized the technology components into Singapore, creating a global footprint which can be utilized for supporting our regional subsidiaries and the branches around the world. We operate and support 19 countries with this architecture to provide a secure and flexible banking infrastructure. Our Operations divisions provide transactional customer services for our businesses while also focusing on cost efficiency through process improvements, automation and straight through processing.

Job Responsibilities

Objectives:

As a member in the GMET Trade Technology department, this is a team lead role involved in both strategic/BAU projects and change request delivery. It is responsible for implementing enhancement and rolling out trade products to new countries in order to support business growth plan. It is also part of work force responsible for creating and implementing solution to migrate Documentary Trade products from existing systems to newly integrated FSCM platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead system analysts in Trade (Documentary Trade and Factoring) project and quarterly release; conduct end to end scope planning, analyse requirement; work out time and effort estimate; liaise with project manager to secure budget
• Partner with functional business analysts in requirement collection, clarification, analyse and produce detailed functional solution and create both functional and non-functional specification
• Translate specifications into technical design; clarify to developer (for internal development) or vendor (for external development) during build, test and deployment stage
• Clarify test findings escalated by Testers and classify the findings accordingly (either as a defect or change request)
• Collaborate with production support to deploy changes to production systems
• Prepare migration from existing documentary trade application to FSCM platform; analyse, create and implement migration approach for customer, account, transactions and GL entry data
• Plan and manage resource assignment in project and quarterly release
• Identify and analyse risk; create response plan, manage risk through monitoring and responsive action 
• Manage Trade team’s budget; renew contract of external staff
   

Job Requirements

• At least 10 years IT working experience in system analysis, development, testing support and production deployment in banking environment
• Good knowledge of Trade products, processes and interfaces
• Good knowledge of SWIFT trade finance messages and processes
• Hands-on experience in requirement gathering and clarification, impact analysis, creating functional and non-functional specification

Be a part of UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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