Business Analyst
Our client, a leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to come join their team. This is a remote opportunity looking for candidates available to work on PST.
Top Skills/Notes:
- Role is specific to market data – candidate must be aware of financial market data, equity and fixed income
- Product based rather than project based. Open ended analysis that needs to happen candidate will need to come up with solutions.
- Needs user research in a product based company experience
- Reflective market data - anyone who has worked in leading investment management firm have an advantage
- Business analyst or Product management background not project manager work history
- 8-10 YOE
- Excel, SQL, Visio for data mapping and document workflows
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Business Analyst will work with the business and technology teams on solutions from inception through ongoing maintenance. This position will play a pivotal role in providing analysis support from ideation to implementation of new technology and processes, including workflow, operational process, systems and data flow design for Parametric. This position will lead business and functional requirements gathering, analysis and documentation, including workflows, wireframes, user stories, acceptance criteria, data mapping, data flows, assistance with user testing and where applicable, processes and procedures documentation.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Communicate effectively - both verbally and written - to peers and business partners to include strong questioning and listening skills and the ability to look beyond obvious answers to understand impacts.
• Interview business counterparts to effectively draw out and articulate the business need/problem/ opportunity to be addressed. Provide scaled options for implementation based on the business need.
• Gather and analyze requirements. Organize and document business needs to enable design and development, including elicitation and documentation of current state and future state workflows, user stories, acceptance criteria, data mapping and UI wireframes.
• Elicit and document processes and procedures, as well as prepare training and adoption materials
• Lead and influence cross-functional teams.
• Provide consultation to development team and product owner for business facing application enhancements.
• Create test cases, coordinate user acceptance testing and verify production completeness
JOB REQUIREMENTS
• Bachelor’s degree required/Master’s degree preferred
• A minimum of 8-10 years of experience in Business Analysis
• Strong experience in requirements gathering, documentation and workflow diagramming
• Experience leading and directing others to achieve measurable results.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate customized solutions to meet business requirements
• Advanced experience working with Agile/Lean/Kanban software development processes
• Advanced skills using a variety of tools to document workflows and data mapping including but not limited to Excel, SQL and Visio
• Understanding of analysis and documentation goals throughout the project lifecycle
• Strong domain knowledge in finance/asset management
• Ability to learn quickly and work in a changing environment and under tight deadlines
• Ability to independently manage personal timelines and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to successfully manage and coordinate simultaneous project deliverables across groups and teams
• Strong experience with SQL, Excel, Visio, Balsamiq, Jira, Tableau, Agile
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level -
Employment type
Contract -
Job function
Analyst and Business Development -
Industries
Financial Services, Business Consulting and Services, and Investment Management
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