Business Analyst - Product/Reference Data - Investment Banking Domain

Knowledge / Abilities / Skills:

- Experience in investment banking domain.

- Min of 3 years' experience as Business Analyst (Full time)

- Minimum 1-year exp.in Product/Instrument Reference Data.

- Should take care of Change Management, Requirement Gathering, Process Mapping, BRD, UAT

- Good to have - Regulatory reporting

- Exposure to Agile methodology

- Must have strong communication and organization skills; multi-tasking and time management skills are essential

- Must have cross-functional business and application knowledge

- Must have sufficiant technical background

- Must be able to take direction well but work independently, and have the ability to learn and assimilate information quickly.

- Must demonstrate a positive and professional attitude, personal integrity, problem solving ability

- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project) tools

- Quick Learner

- Ability to break down business problems into logical tasks

- Ability to think creatively

- Ability to work with senior stakeholders, lead meetings and report

Key Objectives and Responsibilities of this role will include the following:

- 100% hands-on senior consultant role, which will also include project management aspects.

- Define and document business requirements in BRD

- Develop fully defined logical and physical data models as related to assigned task and/or project

- Document business and functional requirements, process/data diagrams, and other deliverables

- Attend requirement reviews with business, IT, testers and end users

- Perform and manage UAT

- Conduct impact assessment on applications when new functions/features are proposed or designed

- Be involved with project plans detailing the expected level of effort and time required and consistently meet the allocated milestones

- Take the initiative to suggest new standards, implement new strategies and take on special projects

- Strong familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle and Agile

- Good team player, able to balance the needs of stakeholders and IT, and able to manage internal IT conflicts and demands as needed

- Ability to prepare standard and ad-hoc presentation decks in a timely manner on required topics, from high level functional overview to detailed technical overview of key data flows

- Ability to effectively engage and work with a global team

- Assisting the project managers and development managers to keep project status information up to date, to identify risks and mitigate against them