Business Analyst
Job Description
Level 3
Job Description:
The charter of this team is to provide business analysis support for the FA Platforms to help drive the requirements, execution of the technical redesign and strategy of the platform to meet the goals of the business and delivery/implementation.
Responsibilities:
– Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in Information Systems.
– Stay current with customer needs and strategies; utilizing formal and informal written communication methods (for example, emails, newsletters, PowerPoint presentations, executive updates, task lists, updates) to communicate updates and findings; and facilitating project meetings and presentations to all types of diverse audiences (for example, senior management, Customers, technical staff).
– Identify, create and facilitate process design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis and design at a complex level; focusing on quality improvement and data management; ensuring data is reliable and valid; developing process improvements or reengineering and recommending elimination; integrating new systems and processes with existing ones.
– Identify improvement opportunities (proactive and reactive).
– Elicit and clearly document business and systems requirements.
– Assess business process and system inefficiencies.
– Demonstrate fluency in business processes and process differentiation.
– Create and maintain issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules, project summaries and updates.
– Support system conversions, upgrades, enhancements.
– Identifies opportunities for improving business processes through information systems.
– Plans, organizes and conduct walkthrough with Business Units and Technical team for common understanding across teams of requirements and sign off.
– Liaison between Business Users and Technical team in analysis & design.
Requirements:
– Must have experience working on large scale projects.
– Exposure to Agile is a Must.
– Wealth Management / Investment Management background (Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office Activities).
– Understanding and Exposure to Financial Data (specifically, Balances, Position, Activity, Performance, Gain and Loss.
– Data analysis Experience.
– Must have proficiency with SQL, Microsoft Excel.
– Well defined and structured individual who can document, track and work on Functional, Technical and Data requirements seamlessly with minimum supervision.
Skills and Proficiency:
– Communication.
– Technical Understanding.
– Problem Solving.
– Leadership.
– Teamwork.
– Business Operations.
– Multitask.
– Data Analysis.
– Process Discovery and understanding.
– Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
– Wealth Management Back Office experience.
Furthermore, this position will work with the Scrum Master, Product Owners, PMs and business/data analysts in the team and work with other platform teams, driving issue analysis & resolution, educating peers, and drive the project throughout the SDLC process until execution. The candidate should be flexible, highly adaptable and excellent team player. The candidate should expect to work in a global virtual team members, sometimes across multiple time zones. The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated team player committed to delivering on time and should be able to work under minimal supervision.
