Team Lead Payments & Clearing

DESCRIPTION

Operating in the UAE for over ‎50 years, CBD manages the financial requirements
of some of the largest corporates and businesses operating in the country,
driving the UAE economy. Over the years, CBD has transformed into a
progressive and modern banking institution winning multiple awards for its
digital initiatives, credit cards, bank accounts, mobile app features and
services.

CBD has been recognized as the number one bank in the UAE on the Forbes list
of The World's Best Banks ‎2022.

As we continue to build upon our successes, we are looking for ambitious
individuals who are passionate about the banking and finance industry and the
markets in which CBD operates. Just as important to us is your ability to
demonstrate a talent for dealing with people - your colleagues and our
customers - and delivering service that really goes the extra mile.

Principal Accountabilities

Analyze business requirements, liaise with project team and produce functional
specification document for addressing the requirements.

Integrate and deploy new systems and products to ensure business
sustainability and profitability.

Responsible for delivery and implementation of new initiatives / changes in
payments and clearing.

Evaluate the business requirements and identify any gaps together with high-
level proposals for their resolution, workarounds, or changes in processes.

Ensure any solutions proposed are realistic and within the agreed scope of the
project.

Participate in solution design with development to ensure the requirements are
addressed. Ensure requirement traceability to facilitate tracking of
requirements coverage.

Should have strong knowledge and hands on expertise in payments domain and
extensive knowledge of working in major payments programs.

Demonstrate knowledge on operational experience in payments and clearing
processes and functional flow, with an in-depth of the payment market process
and guidelines.

Should have strong knowledge on SWIFT application suite, SAA, SNL, SAG and
SWIFTNet interfaces.

Should have strong knowledge on cross boarder payment systems / hub - EPH,
BUNA, SWIFT GPI, SWIFT G4C,

Demonstrate good knowledge on payment market infrastructure (PMI) across
regions Local, GCC, and cross border (FED, CHIPS, CHAPS, ABA, SEPA-II, TARGET,
RTGS, NEFT)

Strong knowledge on MT/MX message formats, ISO20022 standards, CBPR+

Strong payments business orientation and domain expertise to comprehend user
requirements.

Extensive knowledge of the payment market infrastructure and central bank
regulatory rules, PMPG rules and guidelines

Improve and simply the payments functionality and flows using existing
capabilities.

Ability to prepare accurate and detailed requirement specifications documents,
user interface guides, and functional specification documents as well as
getting the sign-off from the appropriate client.

Analyse the business requirements and translate it to technical and functional
specification.

Lead on requirement gathering workshops with different stakeholders.

Ensure the business/operational objectives of the new business requirements
are well defined via perform methodical business analysis.

Follow the software development lifecycle from inception throughout design,
engineering, testing and deployment. Serving as a liaison between various
cross-functional teams that influence payments projects.

Work with internal and vendor team to define accurate requirement and
solutions.

Review business requirement document, workflows and functional specifications.

Validate business requirements to align with business/operations needs as well
as IT architecture and security standards.

Facilitate non-functional and Integration requirements discussions and
requirement definitions.

Perform data migration / data setup requirement gathering and validations.

Manage requirement traceability matrix to ensure the delivery coverage and
quality.

Align with testing squad for testing activities, test plan, scope and approach
and review of test scenarios, test cases, test data, triage and manage defect,
validate test result.

Assist users in planning/executing UAT, analyzing defects, and defining
defects priority for fix delivery by development team.

Prepare and review application training materials, conduct training sessions
to bank users.

Support production cutover and post-live support activities.

Track and report progress and issues to project manager, identify potential
risks.

Proactively communicate and collaborate between entities (i.e. internal users,
technology team and application vendors) to analyze information needs and
functional requirements and deliver the following as needed: Functional
requirements, Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, GUI, Screen and
Interface designs.

Ensure vendor clarity on the points raised during the design, implementation
and UAT.

Perform as the liaison between the technology units, technology teams, support
teams and/or application vendors.

Maintain an overview of the infrastructure and users to constantly reassess
the environment and rationalize them.

Maintain relationships with application vendors for payments related delivery.

Ensure uniform and cohesive monitoring applied across the relevant
infrastructures.

Assist the Group Lead, project manager and PMO in implementation, progress
updates, plan reviews, scoping, and vendor discussions.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact
professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter
experts.

Detail oriented and ability to multi-task under tight timelines