Define and translate business needs into clear and accurate user requirements for all digital enhancements, new products, and system-related issues within Operations.
The Senior Business Analyst, AI Transformation Programme is responsible for the programme governance, dashboarding and grant-tracking activities that keep the AI Hub's fund programme on track: translating grant conditions and milestones into structured programme plans, building and maintaining dashboards for budget and milestone tracking, coordinating data inputs from BU finance and operations teams, and supporting vendor onboarding and compliance reporting.
Partner with senior executives and business leaders to define strategic objectives, identify transformation opportunities, and develop executable roadmaps aligned to SMBC's corporate and regional priorities.
Translate grant conditions, milestones and deliverables into a structured programme tracking framework (plans, RAID logs, milestone trackers) for the AI Hub.
The Senior Business Analyst, AI Transformation Programme is responsible for the programme governance, dashboarding and grant-tracking activities that keep the AI Hub's fund programme on track: translating grant conditions and milestones into structured programme plans, building and maintaining dashboards for budget and milestone tracking, coordinating data inputs from BU finance and operations teams, and supporting vendor onboarding and compliance reporting.
Translate grant conditions, milestones and deliverables into a structured programme tracking framework (plans, RAID logs, milestone trackers) for the AI Hub.
Engage business users and client stakeholders to elicit, analyse and document business, functional and non-functional requirements. Translate business objectives into clear user stories, functional specifications, process flows and acceptance criteria. Facilitate requirements workshops, discovery sessions and stakeholder interviews to build a shared understanding of needs and priorities. Map current and future state business processes, and identify opportunities for improvement, automation and digitalisation. Analyse data to support requirements, validate assumptions and inform product and business decisions, including writing queries where required. Work with product owners to build, refine and prioritise the product backlog in line with business value and delivery capacity. Partner with engineers, architects and UI/UX designers to shape solutions and ensure requirements are understood and correctly implemented. Support agile delivery activities including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews and retrospectives. Define and support user acceptance testing, including test scenarios, coordination of testing and tracking of defects to resolution. Prepare clear documentation, including requirement specifications, process documentation, user guides and release notes. Manage requirement changes, assess their impact and maintain traceability across the delivery lifecycle. Act as a communication bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, keeping both aligned throughout delivery. Job Requirement
Ensure all SAP S/4HANA, GTS, GRC, MDG, and related application solutions, enhancements, support activities, and system changes comply with Global standards, policies, governance frameworks, cybersecurity requirements, CSV requirements, and enterprise architecture principles.