FIS ALS Business Analyst
Job Summary
FIS ALS Business Analyst
About the role
We are hiring a Business Analyst to support and evolve a major lending platform built on FIS ALS. You will own the analysis that turns business need into deliverable well-governed change across the lending lifecycle from requirement elicitation through functional/technical specification and into test and release.
You will be the bridge between Product Management Product Owners Scrum Teams business users and leadership.
Responsibilities
Business analysis
Gather and document business requirements from stakeholders.
Run workshops interviews and requirement elicitation sessions.
Analyse current- and future-state lending processes.
Produce Business Requirement Documents (BRD) Functional Requirement Documents (FRD) and user stories.
Define acceptance criteria and business rules.
FIS ALS functional analysis
Understand and analyse ALS functionality across Loan Origination Loan Servicing Commercial Lending Credit Facilities Collateral Management and Customer & Facility Management.
Configure ALS parameters (incl. PARMS) to business requirements.
Analyse the impact of changes on existing lending processes.
Support ALS upgrade and enhancement initiatives.
Technical business analysis
Prepare detailed functional and technical specifications.
Analyse system interfaces and data flows.
Work with developers on API integrations batch processing file-based interfaces and data mapping & transformation.
Support solution design discussions.
Essential skills
Proven Business Analyst experience in banking / lending (loan origination and/or servicing commercial lending credit).
Hands-on exposure to FIS ALS ideally modules such as Servicing Manager PARMS configuration Escrow Loan Origination or Loan Servicing.
Strong BA craft: BRD/FRD user stories acceptance criteria current/future-state process mapping.
Requirements elicitation via workshops and stakeholder interviews.
Ability to specify interfaces batch file-based feeds and data mapping between ALS Core Banking and Treasury.
Comfortable querying data for validation (e.g. SQL / Foxtrot queries RDBMS concepts).
Desirable
Experience across tiered environments (Dev / Test / UAT / Pre-Prod / Production / DR).
Delivery of regulatory / compliance-driven lending change.
Awareness of the mainframe stack underpinning ALS (COBOL / JCL / DB2 / CICS / Coolgen) enough to converse with developers.
Prior work on ALS upgrades patches or vendor (FIS) releases.
What we offer
Long-term engagement on a high-visibility lending transformation.
Hybrid (Dublin) or remote-first nearshore working.
Competitive day rate (aligned to channel and discussed on application).
Required Skills:
Essential skills Proven Business Analyst experience in banking / lending (loan origination and/or servicing commercial lending credit). Hands-on exposure to FIS ALS ideally modules such as Servicing Manager PARMS configuration Escrow Loan Origination or Loan Servicing. Strong BA craft: BRD/FRD user stories acceptance criteria current/future-state process mapping. Requirements elicitation via workshops and stakeholder interviews. Ability to specify interfaces batch file-based feeds and data mapping between ALS Core Banking and Treasury. Comfortable querying data for validation (e.g. SQL / Foxtrot queries RDBMS concepts). Desirable Experience across tiered environments (Dev / Test / UAT / Pre-Prod / Production / DR). Delivery of regulatory / compliance-driven lending change. Awareness of the mainframe stack underpinning ALS (COBOL / JCL / DB2 / CICS / Coolgen) enough to converse with developers. Prior work on ALS upgrades patches or vendor (FIS) releases.
Required Education:
Essential skillsProven Business Analyst experience in banking / lending (loan origination and/or servicing commercial lending credit).Hands-on exposure to FIS ALS ideally modules such as Servicing Manager PARMS configuration Escrow Loan Origination or Loan BA craft: BRD/FRD user stories acceptance criteria current/future-state process elicitation via workshops and stakeholder to specify interfaces batch file-base