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Senior Business Analyst, AI Transformation Programme

Surbana Jurong · Singapore

About this role

The Senior Business Analyst for the AI Transformation Programme is responsible for programme governance, dashboarding, and grant-tracking activities to ensure the AI Hub's fund programme remains on track. This role involves translating grant conditions into structured plans, maintaining budget and milestone dashboards, and coordinating data across finance and operations teams. The position requires a professional comfortable with business analysis and financial tracking who can leverage AI and BI tools to improve reporting accuracy and efficiency. Beyond the AI Hub, the role acts as an AI champion to extend adoption into Group Finance and other business units. Key Responsibilities: Programme Governance & Grant Tracking: Translate grant conditions into tracking frameworks, monitor progress against milestones, manage RAID logs, and ensure compliance for audits. Programme Dashboards & Reporting: Build and maintain dashboards using Power BI or Excel, automate reporting, and produce status reports for leadership. Cross-Functional Coordination: Act as the primary liaison between the AI Hub and business units, consolidating data and resolving discrepancies. Strategy & Vendor Support: Coordinate with the Group Strategy team, manage relationships with grant administrators, and support vendor onboarding and compliance. AI-Enabled Improvement: Apply AI tools for data cleaning and anomaly detection, and champion AI literacy across finance teams. Required Qualifications: A degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Information Systems, or Data Analytics. At least 8 years of experience as a business analyst or PMO analyst, with exposure to grant-funded programmes and budget tracking. Proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, or Excel is essential. Experience in a matrixed organization and working with Singapore government agencies is preferred. Professional certifications like CBAP, PMP, or Six Sigma are an advantage.

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Skills for this role

Business AnalysisProgramme GovernanceGrant TrackingBudget TrackingPower BIExcelTableauData AnalysisDashboardingAI ToolsCopilotChatGPTClaudeStakeholder ManagementProcess MappingRequirements Gathering

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What matters most

Grant Compliance and Governance
The role requires translating complex grant conditions into structured tracking frameworks, managing RAID logs, and maintaining audit-ready documentation. Success depends on ensuring strict adherence to funding requirements and proactively flagging risks to leadership.
Financial Dashboarding and Reporting
You must design and maintain dashboards in Power BI or Excel to track budget utilization, vendor onboarding, and KPIs. This requires high accuracy in consolidating data from multiple business units and automating reporting processes.
Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management
Acting as the primary liaison between the AI Hub, Group Finance, and various business units is critical. You must resolve data discrepancies and ensure consistent information flow across a matrixed organization.
AI-Driven Process Improvement
Beyond managing the programme, you are expected to apply AI tools for data cleaning and anomaly detection. You must also act as an AI champion, promoting literacy and identifying adoption opportunities within the broader finance community.

Likely challenges to think through

Navigating Complex Grant Audits
The requirement to maintain audit-ready evidence for government agencies creates high pressure for precision. Prepare by demonstrating your experience with rigorous documentation standards and your ability to manage external audit expectations.
Data Consolidation in a Matrixed Environment
Gathering consistent financial and operational data from disparate business units can be difficult due to varying reporting standards. Prepare by highlighting your experience in standardizing data inputs and building consensus among diverse stakeholders.
Balancing Operational Tasks with Strategic Advocacy
The role demands both high-intensity grant management and the strategic promotion of AI adoption. Prepare by explaining how you prioritize urgent compliance tasks while carving out time for long-term transformation initiatives.

Practice your answers

Technical practice

Translating Grant Conditions into Tracking Frameworks

What to coverExplain your methodology for decomposing complex grant requirements into actionable milestones, RAID logs, and budget trackers. Discuss how you ensure alignment between grant-specific deliverables and internal project management structures.

Dashboarding and Data Automation

What to coverDescribe your process for designing dashboards in Power BI or Excel to track budget utilization and KPIs. Suggestion: Focus on your approach to automating data consolidation from multiple business units to reduce manual errors.

AI-Enabled Data Analysis

What to coverProvide examples of how you have used AI tools like Copilot or ChatGPT for data cleaning, anomaly detection, or summarizing complex reports. Explain how you validate the accuracy of AI-generated outputs in a professional setting.

Managing Grant Compliance and Audits

What to coverHow do you maintain documentation and evidence to ensure readiness for external audits? Discuss your experience in managing relationships with grant administrators and responding to compliance queries.

Vendor Onboarding and Financial Tracking

What to coverDescribe your experience coordinating vendor onboarding and integrating invoicing data into broader programme tracking. Explain how you ensure vendor compliance with internal procurement and financial policies.

Business Analysis Fundamentals

What to coverDiscuss your approach to requirements gathering and process mapping within a matrixed organization. How do you ensure that technical requirements from the AI Hub are clearly understood by non-technical finance stakeholders?

Budget and Milestone Risk Management

What to coverHow do you identify and flag risks related to budget overruns or missed milestones? Explain your criteria for determining when an issue requires escalation to leadership.

AI Literacy and Adoption Strategy

What to coverIf asked to champion AI adoption in a finance team, how would you identify high-impact use cases? Suggestion: Describe how you would structure a demo or working session to build confidence among non-technical staff.

Behavioural practice

Managing Stakeholders in a Matrixed Organization

What to coverDescribe a situation where you had to coordinate data inputs from multiple business units with competing priorities. How did you resolve discrepancies and ensure timely, accurate reporting?

Handling Conflicting Priorities and Deadlines

What to coverTell me about a time you managed multiple high-stakes deadlines simultaneously. How did you prioritize your tasks and communicate status updates to different stakeholder groups?

Influencing Adoption of New Tools

What to coverGive an example of a time you successfully introduced a new tool or process to a team that was initially resistant to change. What steps did you take to build buy-in and ensure long-term adoption?

Navigating Ambiguity in Policy

What to coverDescribe a time when you had to interpret complex or changing policies (such as grant conditions) and translate them into operational plans. How did you ensure your interpretation was accurate and compliant?

Sharpen your knowledge

Topics to prepare

Grant Compliance and Governance
Review the principles of managing grant-funded programmes, specifically focusing on translating complex funding conditions into structured tracking frameworks, RAID logs, and audit-ready documentation. Exercise: Create a mock compliance tracker that maps specific grant milestones to required evidence and budget utilization metrics.
Matrixed Organization Stakeholder Management
Understand the dynamics of coordinating across multiple business units and finance teams in a large, matrixed organization. Exercise: Draft a communication plan for resolving data discrepancies between a central AI Hub and decentralized business unit finance leads.

Skills to revise

Advanced Dashboarding and Reporting
Develop expertise in Power BI or Excel to build automated dashboards that track budget utilization and KPIs. Exercise: Build a prototype dashboard that integrates dummy budget data and milestone status, incorporating an automated summary feature.
AI-Enabled Data Analysis
Apply AI tools to streamline data cleaning, anomaly detection, and reporting. Exercise: Use a generative AI tool to summarize a complex financial status report and identify potential data anomalies in a sample dataset.
Business Analysis Fundamentals
Refine skills in requirements gathering and process mapping to support AI transformation initiatives. Exercise: Map the current process for vendor onboarding and identify three specific points where AI automation could reduce manual effort.

Your preparation checklist

Prepare a portfolio of dashboarding and reporting projects
Curate examples of Power BI or Excel dashboards you have built to track complex budgets, grant milestones, or vendor performance. Be ready to explain how you automated data consolidation and used AI tools to improve reporting accuracy or reduce manual effort.
Develop a case study on grant compliance and governance
Prepare a walkthrough of a past project where you translated complex regulatory or grant conditions into a structured tracking framework. Highlight your experience managing RAID logs, audit-ready documentation, and reporting to government agencies or senior leadership.
Formulate an AI adoption strategy for finance teams
Draft a brief proposal or outline for a 'lunch-and-learn' session that demonstrates how AI tools like Copilot or ChatGPT can streamline routine finance tasks. This demonstrates your ability to act as an AI champion and your practical understanding of AI applications in a corporate finance environment.
Refine your stakeholder management narrative
Prepare specific examples of how you have navigated matrixed organizations to gather data from diverse business units. Focus on your ability to resolve data discrepancies and maintain strong relationships with finance, operations, and strategy stakeholders.
Draft targeted questions for the interviewers
Prepare thoughtful questions regarding the current maturity of the AI Hub's grant tracking, the specific government agencies involved, and the primary challenges in extending AI literacy to the broader Group Finance team.

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