Functional Consultant

Job Description

Our Team

Oracle Financial Services consulting implements OFSAA (Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application) products in various Tier1, Tier2, Tier 3 Banks and financial institutions.

The Oracle OFSAA architecture offers a variety of implementation options, ranging from individual sites, local and regional hubs, cloud and centralized compliance. The OFSAA technology aligns to the operating model of the firm, rather than requiring their business processes to map to the technology.

The OFSAA Applications are grouped under two major categories ERF Enterprise Risk and Finance and FCCM Financial Crime and Compliance Management.

• Knowledge of Banking and /or Banking Analytics Consultant will provide his functional inputs and work closely with both Technical and Functional subject matter experts to successfully deploy the OFSAA products in the enterprise risk management, enterprise performance management or data management areas.
• Should have experience IFRS 9 or in any of the following OFSAA applications like Profitability (PFT), Fund Transfer Pricing (FTP), Balance sheet planning(BSP) , GL Recon, Credit Risk, Asset Liability Management (ALM), IFRS9.
• Experience in risk analytics such as OFSAA, SAS, Moodys Analytics, FIS/Sungard, Wolters Kluwer, AXIOM, etc.
• Experience in risk modeling and modeling tools like Python, SPSS, SAS, etc.
• Adopt and contribute to ERF best practice methodologies for knowledge dissemination throughout the OFSAA Delivery organization.
• Strong customer interaction skills and the ability to assess a clients Business processes and strategies. In addition, must be able to lead clients through the process of integrating the ERF Products into their operational environment.
• Implementation experience with OFSAA will be an added advantage
• Should be able to come up with the BRD / functional design document etc.
• Should have SDLC, Agile concepts and also cloud based implementation experience will be handy.
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills. The consultant must be able to clearly articulate functionality and requirements to both clients and colleagues at all levels, from engineering staff to senior executive management

Your Opportunity

You will be responsible for owning the functional delivery by liaising with the client Business experts in understanding the requirements, conducting workshops on the product, help mapping the requirements, documenting the BRD, work with Technical consultant to configure the application for user testing and rollout.

• MBAs (Finance), CAs, with experience from MNC banks, private sector banks, rating agencies, consulting firms, or high end risk analytics KPO firms. FRM&aposs / PRM / CFA Certification is desirable. Engineering degree will be an added advantage.
• General - Knowledge of Core Banking with Expertise in one or more of the following areas - Corporate and retail credit risk, Policies and processes, credit appraisal and monitoring, credit training and scoring, credit derivatives and credit portfolio management, securitization and loan approval for retail and SME, with experience in credit scoring and IT solutions
• Experience in Implementation of OFSAA ERF or similar products in a Functional capacity
• Knowledge of SQL and basic querying skills will be an advantage

Your Responsibilities

• Understanding the requirements from the Client Functional and Business Teams and qualify the requirements as per the product functionality
• Conducts Workshops, Trainings on the product functional scope
• Present to senior management at banks on best practices, solution design and functionality
• Take care of the functional delivery responsibility by delivering the Mapping support, BRD preparation, support for configuration, testing and rollout
• Working on Agile/ Water-Scrum-Fall based development methodology
• Support the testing phase (System Testing, SIT, UAT, Production) and ensure quick turnaround of defect fixes.