Description:
This position requires a professional committed to providing outstanding business systems analysis supporting Corporate Applications, Internal/External system feeds to various vendors and data analytics systems. The successful candidate will be a dedicated team-oriented individual with an excellent understanding of investment management industry and the related technology.
What You Will Do
- Interface with Project Team(s), other BSAs and developers, as well as with other technical teams, to identify, document and manage the business requirements/specifications for various projects and support those processes, that could be cross functional and technically complex.
- Responsible and accountable for the business requirements/specifications to be complete, correct, consistent, concise, achievable and to obtain sign off from the business stakeholders.
- Establish/maintain partnerships with business users in order to determine optimal solutions, automation and alternatives for various business and systems needs to ensure clients make informed decisions.
- Provide overall business/systems support for Production and User Acceptance Test environments.
- Ensure continued integrity of existing production systems.
- Ad-hoc reporting for business users.
- Investigative support for day-to-day system and business issues.
- Provide expert guidance with hands-on help where required to solve complex and challenging business problems to the satisfaction of key stakeholders.
- Set stakeholder expectations appropriately. Share complex concepts with non- technical audiences.
- Collaborate with project team on issue management and help coordinate resolution.
- Organize and participate in stakeholder meetings
- Initiate and lead on support items and projects tied to vendors and management surrounding that
- Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to Support team members and extended business teams
- Document and follow up on important actions and decisions from meetings
- Help to ensure project deadlines are met
- Undertake project and support tasks as required
- Help ensure project and support task adheres to JIRA framework and documentation is maintained appropriately.
- Gather stakeholder feedback and document new requirements as user stories in JIRA
- Help to ensure stakeholder views/expectations are managed
- Facilitate meetings with the support and project teams to review/refine JIRA backlog
- Help define the sprint schedule with support/project team
- Report on weekly targets, anticipated and existing blockages, progress towards project milestones
- Will function in an agile team environment and may be involved with planning and executing test cases and vendor system upgrades
Experience
WHAT YOU WILL BRING
- 5 years experience as business/systems analyst or business consultant within the Investment Management or Brokerage industry.
Education/Training
- College/University graduate in Business Administration, Computer Science or equivalent.