Business Analyst recruitment
Description:
The Transaction Management Layer (TML) team is responsible for defining and delivering trade capture and trade routing solutions globally for Citi's broker-dealer business units and functional units such as operations, finance, and trade processing infrastructure. TML is a key strategic component and transformation initiative for ICG that will bridge Citi's trade flows from different business and product units with Citi's evolving finance and clearance and settlement platforms. In addition, TML provides a repository for aggregate and robust trade data for many Citi internal consumers.
The business analyst will be responsible for business analysis and project management activities across the implementation project lifecycle from concept to post-implementation.
Key Responsibilities
-Write and review Business Requirement Documents (BRDs).
-Understand current front-to-back trade flow requirements, capacity and other variables.
-Develop business cases and project initiation deliverables including scope definition, project assumptions, project plans process and system flows across multiple business units and functions, measurable metrics and identify project dependencies and risks.
-Plan, coordinate and facilitate meetings and workshops with the appropriate subject matter experts and stakeholders globally to define requirements and identify issues.
-Ensure that high-level business requirements have been decomposed properly into useable functional requirements by creating flow diagrams, and other system/ process representations.
-Lead BRD reviews, feedback and sign-off process
-Work with technology partners to ensure understanding of the business requirements
-Coordinate with technology partners in development of Functional Requirements Document.
-Manage changes to baseline requirements through a change control process
-Work with business, functional and technology units looking to consume Trademart data for their processing and reporting needs.
-Develop and execute test plans that will ensure business requirements have been met.
-Create test plans and identify test cases and coordinate testing with multiple legacy applications and technology units.
-Create test scripts based on test cases including expected results
-Coordinate and plan testing activities for business resources and oversee test script execution
-Play a key role in implementation activities
-Develop training materials and deliver training when required
-Assist in initial production support
-Identify and document enhancement requests and additional business needs
-Assist in the organization and delivery of presentations and project status updates.
Experience:
-Previous experience in developing and documenting business requirements documents, business flows, use cases, test plans and documenting and reporting project issues.
-Minimum of 3-5 years of practical experience in analysis, design, testing and implementation on successfully implemented projects in the financial services and securities industry.
-Previous operations, client services, or middle / front office experience within the financial services and securities industry or project experience with securities operations processing (Back-Office and Middle-Office).
-Experience with major cash securities product types (equities, fixed income).
-Experience in working closely with technology development teams
-Experience with Unified Modeling Language, Agile methodologies and SQL are not required, but improve a candidate's chances.