Business Analyst
The Business Analyst role provides business analysis support to the Equity, Real Estate and the Investment Services business areas. This role will encompass working on a range of concepts, proposals projects and some business as usual activities spanning the research, portfolio management and trading functions.
The successful candidate will be required to work on projects and initiatives primarily for the Equity Portfolio management and Trading business areas. The role is critical in providing business analysis to existing projects such as a new order management platform.
The successful candidate will have the following responsibilities:
- Conduct requirements gathering and analysis for concepts, proposals and delivery projects
- Current process and gap analysis
- Provide continued analytical input to development projects throughout the development lifecycle
- Management of small to medium sized projects
- Producing, checking and reviewing project documentation
- Communicating relevant, timely information on projects and issues to both business and systems colleagues
The successful candidate would be expected to have strong business analysis skills with a proven record of project participation and delivery ideally gained within an Investment Management business. The ability to understand technical design and assess approach to rectify any issues encountered is also extremely important.
We are ideally looking for a candidate to have been involved in similar projects from inception, and as the Business Analyst you will need to provide input into the planning stage. The successful candidate will ideally have both a technical and business background and have strong equity product knowledge.
You will need to be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Business analysis experience within a front office environment
- Investment management experience is highly desirable
- Exposure to equity trading, research and portfolio management functions a distinct advantage
- Strong understanding of the full Software Development Lifecycle
- Demonstrate an analytical and methodical approach to problem solving
- Ability to develop and maintain working relationships with business and systems stakeholders
- Strong customer awareness with the ability to manage customer expectations
- Ability to work on a number of projects and tasks concurrently
- Demonstrate the ability to learn and quickly get familiar with a complex business and systems environment.
Given the nature of this role you will need to possess strong interpersonal skills and be able to work face-to-face with senior stakeholders and therefore excellent presentation and communications skills are key.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a blue chip organisation where your success will be well rewarded in terms of career progression and remuneration. Please send your CV together with details of your current remuneration in strictest confidence to Maddy, maddy.nyman@nymanresourcing.com
Please note, only apply if you have the required experience, are based in the UK and have a valid UK work permit.
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