Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Charlotte, NC

10+ years of experience

Onsite position

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 conducts 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.

Experience & Skills
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

Skills
Technical and Business knowledge of some of the following systems or software provides:
o Data feeds ICE Data Services, Bloomberg, Rimes, CBOE
o Margin Lending Softek
o Settlement and Stock Borrow & Loans FIS Global Various Products/ Capital Markets Syn Ops.
o Surveillance and Reporting S3, Steel Eye, FIS-R3
o Mutual Funds Broadridge Matrix

Microsoft Office, Teams, Visio, Confluence, Jira, MS Project
A good knowledge of the Operational processes required to support an American Broker Dealer s middle and back-office broker. With experience in Investment Bank Operations, Retails Financial Services or Financial Services Technology or similar
Proven dealings with senior management and vendors utilizing strong verbal, written and presentation skills.
hands-on data analysis/testing test case preparation, test execution, defect logging. Experience in application testing using a variety of testing suites.
Excellent Excel skills
Strong analytical ability: Present knowledge and perform research, making logical analysis, evaluating risks/benefits. Recommending alternatives for courses of action and implements creative solutions to complex problems.
Be comfortable leading discussions with Business & IT and driving the decision-making process.
Strong facilitation, influencing, problem solving and negotiation skills.
Excellent oral & written communication skills
self-Initiative: Initiates preventive measures and procedural changes. Ability to work cross-functionally reaching across business lines or operating units. Coaches, mentors, and influence others

Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

College diploma or university degree in the field of business administration, finance, or information systems
Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modelling, verification, and methodology development
Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources.
Working knowledge of Windows office systems
Excellent understanding of the organization s goals and objectives

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