Senior Business Analyst

The platform is responsible for providing authoritative sources of securities indicative data to our clients across the organization, through implementing state of the art technologies and operational processes which promote the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of product, pricing, account and corporate action data. BA team is tasked with the enhancement to the system including integration of vendor feeds, data model enhancement and updates to existing data from vendors. This may involve analyzing multiple data sets manually or engineering automated solutions. The overall objective of this role is to understand business needs & conduct data analysis

Responsibilities

Financial Data Modeling Capabilities

Data Analysis for complex system

Reverse engineering functional specifications from data

Work closely with End Users/Clients to understand Business Process/Industry Standards/Regulatory Mandate requirements.

Work closely with IT and Operations partners

Work with external data vendors (i.e., Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, Markit, etc) and standards organizations

Able to execute projects Independently

Conduct Systems Integrated Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Create Function Specification Documents (FSD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), and test plans

Skills

Must have

Working experience of 8 years min. as Business Analyst

Strong background in financial reference data and capital markets

Strong SQL knowledge required (able to query data, analyze and troubleshooting)

Strong Data analysis and Mapping skill

College degree, specialized training or equivalent work experience

Data Oriented with an excellent attention to detail

Experience/understanding of business process reengineering and business modeling concepts, systems development lifecycle

Strong analytical skills and writing skills, to include solid experience in writing functional and technical specifications

Must possess good communication skills with the ability to be assertive

Ability to focus on high quality work while under pressure

Experience utilizing various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Agile (JIRA etc.)

Comprehensive knowledge of the Testing Lifecycle with SIT, UAT, and Production.

Nice to have

Experience working with major vendor data providers (i.e., Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, Markit)

Project lead experience

Experience working closely with IT Project managers and development teams

Knowledge of MS Excel, Visio

Experience with vendor product implementation

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior