Location: Austin,TX, USA
Business Analyst
Hybrid- Austin, Texas
6 months Contract
Minimum Requirements:
• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in management information systems or business administration.
• 4 years' Experience planning, eliciting, analyzing, and managing business requirements and monitoring throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) including regression testing. Validate requirements with Front office / Middle Office / Regulatory stakeholders.
• 4 years' Experience leading simple and complex business process reengineering and transformation efforts that deliver efficiency improvements in quality and customer experience.
• 4 years' Experience performing a business relationship manager (liaison) role between functional and technical teams.
• 4 years' Experience leading project teams and/or operational and strategic organizational efforts that involved managing changes and stakeholder relationships, tracking and communicating performance, ensuring resource availability and allocation, coordinating third parties/vendors and delegating tasks.
• 4 years' Considerable knowledge of public and private markets, investment concepts, terminology
Experience with investment transactions related to: credit & hedge funds, private equity, infrastructure, private real estate, public real estate, public equity.
• 4 years' Work with Operations teams, Trading desks, Investment teams, Software vendors and internal development teams to continuously improve technology requirements.
• 4 years' Analyzing and evaluating complex investment information, technology applications, policies, and issues; and developing creative and workable solutions to complex problems and issues.
• 4 years' Develop and conduct curriculum and training sessions covering new and enhanced systems.
• 4 years' Experience working in a scrum master role or in an agile scrum environment.
• 4 years' Experience with projects addressing some of the following fields:
o data management, data quality, data warehousing, data modeling, data migration and integration
o secure file transfers
o enterprise system analysis
o enterprise architecture
o information security principles
• 4 years' Experience with investments management systems implementations and enhancements:
o Eagle Investment Accounting.
o Bloomberg financial data and transfer.
Preferred Requirements:
• 4 years' Experience in a wide range of business environments including business consulting.
• 4 years' Experience with a variety of system implementations and enhancements supporting business
areas related to: building operations, finance, benefits processing, procurement, contracts, legal, audit, human resources, vendor relations, project management, and communications.
• 4 years' Experience with MS Azure DevOps for requirements management, and project implementation.
• 4 years' Experience with project management software.
• 4 years' Technical expertise and experience in business systems analysis, system configuration, information security, and internal control frameworks.
• 4 years' Technical expertise and experience with reporting databases, database design development, data modeling, mapping.
• 4 years' Technical expertise and experience conducting enterprise business analysis such as problem/opportunity analysis, business case and business architecture development, feasibility studies and comprehensive risk assessments supporting value-based decision-making.
• 4 years' Technical expertise and experience creating comprehensive system-level documentation, system implementation standards, and training materials for users with varied levels of technical understanding.
• Masters of Business of Administration (MBA), CCBA, CBAP, CSM, CSPO, PMI-PBA, PMP, ITIL, ICGB, or related.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex issues and propose solutions.
• Ability to analyze systems and procedures.
• Ability to write and revise standards and procedures.
• Ability to handle multiple projects.
• Ability to communicate effectively using excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate at all management levels and to communicate with both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Ability to understand each division's business processes and their dependencies.
• Knowledge of business analysis procedures, business process modeling and design, requirements and process modeling tools, and meeting facilitation.
• Ability to obtain and sustain the cooperation of others.
• Ability to provide excellent customer service.
• Ability to present a professional image and demeanor to internal and external contacts.