Required Skills- Must Haves:

5+ years experience as a business analyst.

•          5+ years of recent Derivatives Experience

•          Recent experience writing requirements documents, not just putting a presentation of project flows together (writing examples would be a huge plus)

•          Extensive work within Investments/Asset management industry

•          Vendor Experience –including working with off the shelf applications/Non-propriety

Job Description-

Scope: Our client is supporting multiple lines of business within the Investment Division along with the systems people at the corporate level; we are looking for professionals that have business domain systems knowledge in the Investments/Asset Management Arena.

Must Haves:

• 5+ years of recent Derivatives Experience
• Recent experience writing requirements documents, not just putting a presentation of project flows together (writing examples would be a huge plus)
• Extensive work within Investments/Asset management industry
• Vendor Experience –including working with off the shelf applications/Non-propriety

Nice to Haves:

• Experience using iterative/agile/RUP methodologies
• SQL experience (general queries, add/delete, joins)
• Visio- Huge Plus

General Responsibilities:

• Proven ability to deliver successful initiatives in a timely manner based on project success criteria and team goals
• Ensures high quality business requirements; including being able to document in various formats including BRD, Data Mapping Spreadsheets, User Cases, User Stories
• Presentations to senior management, project team members and steering committees
• Ability to ensure a heavy level of collaboration with Information Services partners, for example: Quality Assurance, Development, to ensure successful, quick delivery
• Ability to identify raise key risks, issues and dependencies
• Complex stakeholder management
• The ability to formulate and manage Business Analysis work plans and Business Analysts; You will assume the role of senior advisor, teacher, mentor and expert to more junior members of the organization
• Able to contribute to our team’s and organization's continuous improvement
• Ensures adherence to our project methodologies and Business Unit strategies; familiarity with Agile SCRUM and RUP/iterative development
• Ability to prepare and present strategic plans for developing large-scale systems
• Process modelling and analysis skills including but not limited to process improvements, gap analysis between current and future state along with root cause analysis