Company: 1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd
About UOB
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in ASEAN with a global network in Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Operating through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, we have a global network of about 430 branches and offices in 19 markets. At the heart of UOB is our culture, shaped by the UOB Way and anchored on our four values – Honourable, Enterprising, United and Committed. For more than 90 years, these values have guided how we do right by our customers, collaborate with one another and create long-term value for the communities we operate in. As One Bank, we are committed to helping our colleagues build sustainable careers grounded in purpose, supported by strong values, and enriched with meaningful opportunities to grow.
Job Description
As part of the Program Management team, the Lead Functional Business Analyst guides the team in shaping and driving the development of a unified compliance workflow that consolidates anti–financial crime alert management into a streamlined, integrated process.
The role requires strong design‑thinking capabilities, including the ability to conceptualize the end‑state vision of the product and translate that vision into intuitive, efficient, and future‑ready workflow designs.
Experience in product design further enhances the ability to balance user experience, operational realities, and technological constraints when defining the target solution.
In addition, a solid understanding of compliance and regulatory requirements—particularly those related to financial crime, AML, fraud, and sanctions—is essential to ensure that the workflow aligns with governance standards, audit expectations, and evolving regulatory mandates.
What you’ll do
Stakeholder Relationship Management
Build strategic relationships and alliances with stakeholders to achieve common goals.
Drive the organization’s technology alignment with business needs.
Inspire stakeholders to pursue the organization’s technology vision.
Manage critical internal and external stakeholders’ changes in needs and priorities.
Lead and Develop Talent
Lead and coach a team of functional business analysts.
Develop plans to build the functional business analysis capabilities of the team.
Develop programmes aimed at upskilling the organization’s workforce in technology.
Review outcomes from talent development initiatives.
Capabilities and Requirements Analysis and Definition
Based on input from the business target operation model, to work with project managers, functional business analysts, technology teams, and domain architects to map out the delivery roadmap, capabilities, and architecture view.
Collaborate with business stakeholders from across Group (Singapore and Regional) to elicit and review business requirements, focusing on delivering enterprise-wide capabilities for KYC customer lifecycle management, KYC workflow, and AML workflow delivery.
Lead the analysis and documentation of the "to be" business and operations processes based on the agreed requirements and/or function points. Perform impact assessments.
Support the analysis and definition of detailed functional and non-functional requirements based on business requirements, including the transition of these requirements to technology teams for solution design and delivery.
Support funding requests for projects within the programme of work, ensuring that requests align with strategy, roadmap and target capability/architecture views.
Monitor and manage risks/issues related to requirements and scope.
Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology teams to develop and deliver deployments plans.
Collaborate with Group Information Security, where needed, to ensure non-functional requirements effectively incorporate security requirements.
Testing & Scope Management
Work with the Testing Domain Lead and Test Managers to translate…