Business Analyst
Ma Financial Group
IT, Sales & Business Development
Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines · Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines
Posted on Jun 8, 2025
Responsibilities:
- Applies a structured methodology to problem-solving, validating hypotheses, and designing effective solutions.
- Supports key decision-making processes by delivering clear, data driven recommendations that create tangible benefits for the business.
- Drives innovation by exploring new approaches to application, origination, settlement, and servicing activities for financial products.
- Conducts thorough analysis of existing business processes to identify opportunities for automation, simplification, and standardisation underpinned by a strong cost benefit lens.
- Documents and contributes to the design of platform and process enhancements, providing detailed rationales and proposed improvements.
- Clearly communicate insights, changes, and technical solutions across stakeholders to drive understanding and adoption.
- Manages vendor relationships to maximise the performance, capability, and future potential of our technology solutions.
- Assist in testing activities ensuring the quality and conformance to specification of deliverables.
- Assess and document issues, actively identifying areas for continuous improvement.
- Proactively identifying and escalating risks or issues, contributing to a culture of operational excellence and risk awareness.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years' financial industry experience.
- Proven experience supporting business transformation initiatives or strategy development programs.
- Demonstrated ability to take a solution from initial business case through to delivery execution.
- Strong understanding of applying technology solutions to solve business challenges.
- Highly organised, with the ability to prioritise work, manage dependencies, and mitigate risks to meet project deadlines.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering data-driven insights.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with a proven ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across all levels.
- Experience working within various delivery methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
- Proficiency in reporting and data visualisation tools such as Tableau is highly advantageous.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Desirables:
- Credit underwriting experience highly desirable.
- Knowledge of industry-standard application, origination, and settlement platforms such as NextGen ApplyOnline and Simpology LoanApp.
- Experience with Salesforce in an Agile environment highly regarded.
- Proactive mindset and attention to detail.
- Customer-focused with strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
- Adaptable to evolving business requirements and technological changes.