State Street - Senior Associate/AM - Business Analysis - Finance Risk Infrastructure Business Solutions Team

The Finance Risk Infrastructure Business Solutions Team (FRIBS) is responsible for providing business and technology solutions for our Finance and Risk business partners. This role will require familiarity with business analysis for implementation of banking solutions will directly support the Global Banking Modernization Project and other similar projects in the financial services domain. This position will provide an excellent opportunity to interact with many different business areas within the bank.

Business Analyst - Senior Associate

The Business Analyst will perform business/systems analysis for various Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Treasury, Risk, Planning and Analysis projects. This individual will liaise with the project sponsors stakeholders external vendors and other divisions within State Street to ensure the delivery of quality products within the expected timeframes. This individual must demonstrate subject matter understanding ability to perform business/systems analysis and create documentation that ensures that our development solutions are successfully implemented. This individual must be able to work under minimal direction while keeping management and team members apprised of issues and project status.

Responsibilities

- Independently compile, analyze and interpret information related to complex business/system processing

- Provide clear, complete and accurate documentation of user requirements and functional specifications

- Identify and understand relationships among problems, issues, and data

- Serve as a liaison between business users and various development teams

- Document project requirements using clear, concise language, consistent with the appropriate methodologies

- Run meetings/workshops to explain and walk through business requirements

- Define and deliver test strategy, plans, and scripts

- Problem solving and issue resolution

- Define and document system interface requirements for other external systems

Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in technology, finance, business or equivalent, CFA a plus

- Minimum 5 years related experience in financial services technical projects

- Knowledge of products in investment banking domain

- Knowledge of the systems development process

- Experience in waterfall and agile mode of project implementation

- Experience in implementing T24 application Arrangement architecture, GL Module, accounts modules, Cash management module+

- Attention to detail and problem solving a must

- Excellent system and functional testing capabilities

- Excellent (clear and concise) verbal and written communication and presentation skills

- Proven ability to work cooperatively and effectively with business and systems personnel

- Experience with Microsoft Office tools: Word, Excel, Project, and Visio is required

- Knowledge of Agile Scrum Software Development Framework a plus