Business analyst, Agile, Financial data, sql, finance, trading
Contract W2
Depends on Experience
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Role: Business Analyst
Location: New York, NY. (Remote)
Responsibilities:
- Senior BA with Financial Data expertise specifically Positions and Activity (Knows how trading data looks like). Person should be able to map various fields between systems
- Must have experience working on large scale projects
- Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in Information Systems
- Stay current with customer needs and strategies; utilizing formal and informal written communication methods (for example, emails, newsletters, PowerPoint presentations, executive updates, task lists, updates) to communicate updates and findings; and facilitating project meetings and presentations to all types of diverse audiences (for example, senior management, Customers, technical staff)
- Identify, create and facilitate process design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis and design at a complex level; focusing on quality improvement and data management; ensuring data is reliable and valid; developing process improvements or re-engineering and recommending elimination; integrating new systems and processes with existing ones
- Identify improvement opportunities (proactive and reactive)
- Elicit and clearly document business and systems requirements
- Assess business process and system inefficiencies
- Demonstrate fluency in business processes and process differentiation
- Ability to analyze and synthesize business requirements, including recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes
- Create and maintain issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules, project summaries and updates.
- Support system conversions, upgrades, enhancements
- Identifies opportunities for improving business processes through information systems
- Plans, organizes and conduct walkthrough with Business Units and Technical team for common understanding across teams of requirements and sign off
- Liaison between Business Users and Technical team in analysis & design
Requirements:
- Must have experience working on large scale projects
- Exposure to Agile is a Must
- Solid Financial Services background.
- Must understand Financial Data (specifically, Position and Activity)
- Solid Data analysis – Must have proficiency with SQL, Microsoft Excel
- Well defined and structured individual who can document, track and work on Functional, Data requirements seamlessly with minimum supervision
Skills and Proficiency:
- Communication
- Technical Understanding
- Problem Solving
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- Business Operations
- Multitask
- Data Analysis
- Process Discovery and understanding
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written