Job Title: Senior Business Analyst / Proxy Product Owner
Location: Dubai, UAE
Duration: Contract
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst / Proxy Product Owner to drive digital asset initiatives within a regulated financial services environment. The role focuses on translating complex business requirements into clear, structured, and implementation-ready deliverables while supporting product ownership activities across delivery workstreams.
The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in digital assets, blockchain/DLT, cross-border payments, tokenization, and compliance (AML/KYC), along with the ability to collaborate effectively across business, technology, and control functions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end business analysis from discovery to delivery across digital asset initiatives
- Elicit, analyze, and document business, functional, operational, and control requirements
- Translate business needs into user stories, business rules, process flows, and acceptance criteria
- Ensure requirements are structured, traceable, and aligned with delivery needs
- Identify gaps, risks, and dependencies and drive timely resolution
- Define current-state and target-state processes, including workflows and user journeys
- Document transaction lifecycle, approvals, exception handling, reconciliation, and reporting flows
- Produce high-quality artifacts: BRDs, FRDs, process maps, gap analyses, and test scenarios
- Facilitate walkthroughs with stakeholders to validate scope and requirements
- Analyze and document requirements related to digital assets, blockchain/DLT, and tokenization
- Capture cross-border payment flows, settlement, reconciliation, and controls
- Support real-world asset tokenization (issuance, lifecycle events, ownership, redemption)
- Document wallet, custody, and transaction handling processes
- Ensure solutions are practical, scalable, and aligned with business objectives
- Collaborate with compliance, legal, and risk teams to define regulatory requirements
- Document KYC, onboarding, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and audit trails
- Embed compliance and AML controls into process design and documentation
- Maintain traceability of regulatory requirements across delivery lifecycle
- Act as proxy product owner for assigned workstreams
- Support backlog management, prioritization, and scope alignment
- Provide functional clarification during design, development, and testing phases
- Ensure business intent is maintained throughout delivery
- Align stakeholders on priorities, timelines, and expected outcomes
- Facilitate workshops, requirement sessions, and working groups
- Prepare MoMs, action trackers, and decision logs
- Track open items and drive closure with stakeholders
- Develop presentations, status reports, and management summaries
- Communicate complex topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Define test scenarios, test cases, and acceptance criteria
- Support UAT, defect resolution, and business sign-off
- Validate delivered solutions against requirements
- Ensure smooth implementation and business readiness
Required Experience
- 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst / Functional Analyst in banking, fintech, or regulated financial services
- Proven experience in digital assets, blockchain/DLT, or tokenization initiatives
- Strong exposure to cross-border payments
- Experience in real-world asset tokenization
- Hands-on experience in AML, compliance, and control frameworks
- Experience working with cross-functional teams (business, tech, compliance, legal)
Ankit Butola
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