Role: Senior Business Analyst with Financial Broker Dealer industry experience
Key Skills: Business Analysis, Mutual Funds, Fixed Income, Broker Dealer, Security Finance
Experience: 10+ years
Location: New York, NY
Mode of Hire: Full Time
Skills Required:
- Minimum of 5 years' experience at a US Broker Dealer as a business analyst. Working in Equities, ETO's, Mutual Funds and Fixed Income Markets.
- Some experience in Margin Lending and Security Finance would be advantageous.
- Vendor management experience
- End-to-End project delivery experience
- Collaborating with vendors and internal/external stakeholders at all levels – PMs, BAs, Architects, IT Security Risk, IT Infrastructure, Testers, Application Managers/Senior Execs, etc.
- Working closely with IT Architects on defining the tactical and strategic integration solutions
- Cross-functionally reaching across business lines or operating units. Coaches, mentors, and influence others
Responsibilities :
- Elicits, analyses, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users.
- Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
- Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
- Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
- Research, reviews, and analyses the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
- Assists in conducting research on products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts.
- Participates in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
- Participates in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use.
- Analyses and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
- Develops and utilizes standard templates to write requirements specifications accurately and concisely.
- Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
- Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
- Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
- Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
- Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine, as necessary.
- Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.