Client - Major Financial Firm
Role - Sr. Business Analyst
Rate - DOE
Duration - 6 Months (possible extension)
Location - NYC, NY
The position is part of the technology Delivery Management team for the MSO/MSM BA team, which folds into Field and Client Technology (FACT) under Wealth Management Technology Group. This team is comprised of resources located at NY. The MSO BA team supports analysis and design for any requirements related to MS Online/Mobile Digital suite of applications.
Educational Requirements: - Should possess a professional degree in Finance or Software from a premier institute
- Years of Experience:10 - 12 years of experience in the financial services sector as a Business Analyst.
Primary Skills / Must Have - Critical thinking and translation of business needs into technology solutions.
- Good problem-solving skills.
- Excellent root cause analysis skills
- Experience with metrics gathering, tracking, and reporting
- Ability to analyze vague project requests and clarify into specific tasks, next steps and deliverables
- Wireframe and mockups creation experience
- Excellent written/oral communication skills and listening skills
- Full systems development life cycle experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Microsoft Visio
- Flexible, highly adaptable and excellent team player as project evolves
- Credibility and confidence interacting with senior management, business unit personnel, branch offices and the technology team across the full lifecycle of a project
- Ability to work independently with minimal hands-on management
Secondary Skills / Desired Skills The ideal candidate for this position will have: - Experience in Financial Services, specific to Wealth Management
- Working knowledge of software development techniques, mainframe, distributed and web technology platforms
- Candidate should be comfortable working in a dynamic environment
Role & Responsibilities: - Participate in all phases of the development lifecycle, including working with the business areas to understand business requirements, writing functional requirements document, coordinating QA/UAT testing and assisting with deployment and roll out process.
- Conduct Impact Analysis for a BRD to assess work effort for Dev team
- Create detailed functional requirements documents with use cases, wireframes, data flow diagrams, sample reports, or other similar artifacts.
- Acting as the interface and advocate between the business users and the development teams.
- Proactively identify and manage issues to full resolution and providing status updates on progress.
- Developing into a subject matter expert for Field Management Technology applications
- Manage Change Requests
- Conduct review sessions with the various stakeholders on the artifacts
- Highlight risks/issues during the SDLC
- Test Case creation/review for QA and UAT
- Testing the application before implementation
- Participate in implementation planning activities. •
Last updated on Apr 4, 2018