Location: Central, Singapore
Employment Type: 1-Year Contract
Compensation: Up to SGD 10,000/month
About the Role
We’re hiring a Senior Functional Business Analyst to drive enterprise AML/CFT workflow capabilities under the AWF COSMIC programme. You’ll be the connective tissue between business and technology—shaping the roadmap, translating requirements into robust designs, and guiding delivery through testing, change control, and go-live, across Singapore and regional stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Build strategic relationships and align diverse stakeholder groups to shared outcomes.
- Champion the technology vision and ensure solutions track to business needs and regulatory expectations.
- Anticipate and manage changes in stakeholder priorities; facilitate clear decision-making.
- Translate the business target operating model into a delivery roadmap, capability view, and high-level architecture with PMs, FBA peers, Tech teams, and domain architects.
- Elicit, document, and review enterprise-wide AML investigation workflow requirements (Group-level stakeholders—Singapore and Regional).
- Lead “to-be” process analysis, impact assessments, and definition of detailed functional and non-functional requirements.
- Ensure smooth transition of requirements to Tech for solution design and build; track traceability to outcomes.
- Support programme funding requests, ensuring alignment to strategy, roadmap, and target architecture/capabilities.
- Identify and manage risks/issues related to scope and requirements; maintain RAID discipline.
- Co-develop deployment plans with business and technology; incorporate security/non-functional requirements with Group Information Security where needed.
- Partner with Testing Domain Lead/Test Managers to shape test strategy and approach (including automation).
- Clarify escalated test findings and drive changes to requirements or design where warranted.
- Assess change requests for cost/timeline impact; ensure approvals follow programme governance.
- Uphold SDM / change governance and delivery processes end-to-end.
- Establish “train-the-trainer”, knowledge transfer, and clear documentation so expertise is retained within the team.
- Support hypercare and continuous improvement across AML/CFT workflows.
- 10+ years of relevant banking experience (or equivalent), with strong exposure to AML/CFT, KYC, and adjacent domains (Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Fraud).
- Strong grasp of the global regulatory environment and evolving KYC expectations.
- Hands-on with change management and project fundamentals; experienced in scoping/evaluation across scalability, maintainability, cost, operations, and technology risk.
- Workflow platform experience highly preferred; exposure to Actimize, Detica, Quantexa a bonus.
- Proven analytical, quantitative, problem-solving and process design skills—able to turn analysis into actionable plans.
- Understanding of technology and operational processes across banking functions; comfortable working with architects and engineering teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication; able to navigate ambiguity, align differing views, and manage difficult conversations.
- People-positive leader who fosters learning, sets stretch goals, and builds a culture of continuous improvement.
- Strategic, forward-thinking, with strong influencing and negotiation skills; resourceful team player.
- Tertiary qualifications in Engineering/Technology/Business/Finance(or equivalent).
How to Apply: Interested applicants, please click on the “Apply Now” to submit your updated resume.
Please note: Due to the anticipated high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. All information provided will be treated with strict confidentiality and used solely for recruitment purposes.
Ahmad Ilyas bin Azhari
Consultant – IT & Digital
EA Personnel No: R24123184
Peoplebank Singapore Pte Ltd | EA Licence No: 08C5248