Business Analyst (Summit Experience)

Job title: : Business Analyst (Finastra Summit Experience)

Job location: New York, New York ( Hybrid - 3 days onsite)

Job type: Contract

A global investment bank is seeking a Business Analyst (Summit Experience)

Within the Americas IT department, Business Technology Services is looking for a IT Business Analyst with Summit knowledge, in the Fixed Income IT team. This is a Front to Back-office position within the business analyst group of Natixis IT department. He/She/They is managing several evolutions or project aiming at: Deploying new instruments Implementing and improving PnL, Hedge and market data processes Implementing and improving settlement, confirmation and clearing workflows Implementing regulatory reporting and maintaining quality of the data Remediating the quality of data Identify and collect irregularities in business operations procedures and propose changes and new methodologies. He/She/They also supports Fixed Income, Treasury and Credit activities as well as back-office stakeholders by addressing functional issues/questions. Position requires great knowledge of PnL, hedge, Market data setup and feed and a full transversal overview of the trade workflow from input until settlement. He/She/They centralizes the user requests; coordinates with New York and Paris Head Office Business Analysts and IT teams; liaises with support functions to ensure all impacts are properly identified

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

For all that relates to Fixed Income, Treasury and Credit business: IT Business Analysis:

• Close collaboration with the user representatives (traders, sales, operations, etc ) to gather business requirements, including the identification of any potential issue or functional omissions; define and document the business requirements.
• Write detailed functional specifications for IT development teams.
• Development of user test cases and validate test results during user acceptance testing, training with Summit end-users.
• Coordinate the go live and ensure proper system behavior. Project scoping and planning, progress reporting, identification and management of issues/risks and communications. Functional support / maintenance:
• Responsible for quick resolution of day-to-day issues on Summit (booking, pricing, market data, straight through processing, settlement, reporting, accounting )
• Monitor the trade workflow and make sure statements and regulatory reporting are accurately produced.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years experience in business analysis functions in the Finance industry
• Deep knowledge on Summit, must be familiar with products traded on Fixed Income, Treasury and Credit business.
• Must be familiar with Summit STP services for Front Office and Back office as cashflows, accounting, operations and settlements workflows.
• Deep IT knowledge, the successful candidate must be able to review source code, write and execute SQL queries (Sybase, Oracle and SQL Server) and read/understand a script (Windows and Unix as Bash, Perl, Python)
• Ability to analyze complex problems, with strong attention to detail and ability to provide solutions to problems.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment on multiple applications. Knowledge of C++, C#, python, XML, XSLT, Excel VBA is a plus.

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