Digital Program Associate - Business Analysis (6265)

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank whose mission is financing Infrastructure for Tomorrow in Asia and beyond—infrastructure with sustainability at its core. We began operations in Beijing in 2016 and have since grown to 110 approved members worldwide. We are capitalized at USD100 billion and AAA-rated by the major international credit rating agencies. Collaborating with partners, AIIB meets clients’ needs by unlocking new capital and investing in infrastructure that is green, technology-enabled and promotes regional connectivity.

The Information Technology Department (ITD) provides technical services in the areas of information security, digital services, IT-related procurement, cybersecurity, IT risk and resilience, data management, digital learning, and digital transformation, ensuring their overall alignment with the Bank’s needs and priorities. The team oversees the development and refinement of the IT strategy as well as the effective management of technology resources and the provision of technical support across Bank operations. These efforts are critical to fostering a digital and data-driven culture within the Bank aligned with its Corporate Strategy, promoting the innovation of digital infrastructures and ensuring the smooth operation and security of daily banking functions.

The Digital Program Associate – Business Analysis, reporting to the Senior Digital Program Specialist, will be responsible for building up business partnerships between ITD and other departments by conducting IT business-analysis activities; collaborating with business stakeholders to identify and optimize business processes, digital capabilities, needs and technology gaps; and identifying, implementing, and supporting appropriate business solutions for the investment management business.

The Digital Program Associate - Business Analysis will ensure that investment-management-business requests are supported by ITD in a timely manner to meet the operational requirements of the business units and to align with industry best practices. The successful candidate will provide guidance on emerging approaches and trends in the design and implementation of investment-management applications to contribute to the success of the Bank's investment operations.

Responsibilities:

• Liaise between ITD and business departments and work as subject-matter expert for investment-management business, specializing in nonsovereign-backed financing (NSBF).
• Collaborate with various teams across the Bank to gain a deeper understanding of diverse business perspectives and to identify opportunities for the further refinement of applications and work processes supporting NSBF business.
• Optimize approaches and build consistency in the demand analysis, requirements prioritization, solution evaluation, and delivery of NSBF solutions, ensuring that outputs are delivered to meet the specific demands of stakeholders while introducing adaptive measures to sustain responsiveness to evolving needs.
• Support project managers in business analysis activities to develop systems and solutions for NSBF applications, customizing parameters, functionalities, and features to meet project requirements and specific operational contexts to ensure effectiveness, adaptability, and usability.
• Lead the exercise for gathering and prioritizing business requirements, business process modeling, impact analysis, and feasibility studies, and propose solutions for business units. Support solution design and full project-cycle delivery.
• Provide enhancement and operational support for IT systems used by NSBF business, including but not limited to analyzing new initiatives and process changes, supporting production troubleshooting, enhancing the quality of ongoing IT products and services, and utilizing IT data for more business insights.
• Work closely with various IT teams, such as infrastructure, data management, IT security, and risk management, to ensure full coverage of IT requirements when rolling out new products and services to business users, and maintain a highly secure system through proper configuration and system-access monitoring.
• Ensure that processes comply with IT governance processes and procedures and AIIB’s audit and control requirements.

Requirements:

• Master's degreein information technology, computer science, software engineering, business administration, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 3-5 years of work experience in business analysis.
• Good understanding of investment management business. Experiences or knowledge in multilateral development bank (MDB) NSBF business will be an advantage.
• Demonstrated expertise in gathering and defining requirements, creating detailed specifications, managing process flows, and developing business use-case scenarios.
• Understanding of process modeling and agile and waterfall IT system rollout methodologies.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is essential.
• Strong business and technology acumen.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated capacity gained through education and experience in the investment-management business, reflecting conceptual understanding across operational settings.
• Understand the NSBF business and the integration of different elements into the investment-management process.
• Demonstrated skill in relationship management, gained through exposure or experience.
• Engage stakeholders proactively to define expectations/needs and build an informed framework for service delivery.
• Demonstrated achievement in the consistent delivery of programs/services.
• Consistently meet program-delivery standards on timing and deployment of resources as well as quality/relevance.