Business Process Analyst recruitment
Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Business Process Analyst. Candidate must be dedicated, self-sufficient, and demonstrate a history of accountability and delivery of complex process workflows, analysis, requirements, and system documentation. Lead analysis and undertake detailed documentation of any number of current processes oriented around the collection, evaluation and/or derivation of financial data. The resulting documentation will codify and unify existing procedures and standards. Primary objective will be to re-design operational flows and systems processes for maximum automation, streamlined workflow and transformation from end-of-day processing to a dynamic, continuous model. This position will lead, or solely be responsible, for the specifications of those changed systems and procedures. Measure of success will be a product that demonstrates the absolute minimum number of steps required for manual and systematic processing while preserving or improving level of quality/consistency in output.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead business through decomposition of current workflow and tasks to understand purpose and function of current processes.
- Identify opportunities to streamline and automate.
- Document findings and improvements on a project by project basis reflecting revised or new operational and systematic processes.
- Assess, demonstrate and document that revised/new processes do not degrade or, in fact, improve upon current quality controls.
- Ensure all requirements are complete, unambiguous and testable.
- Maintain detailed project plan to measure progress. Work closely with the various teams including business, development, and project management teams to:
• Maintain an up-to-date action item list by project that captures dependant activities of all groups affected by targeted systems.
• Escalate all knowledge of risk/issues related to actions required by other groups.
• Continuously identify areas of functional or data overlaps across systems areas to eliminate or reduce redundancies where possible.
• Provide timely, effective communication on status of activities
- Elicit, analyze and document business requirements and rules, including financial calculations/methodologies, compliance and corporate actions rules, use cases, and/or functional specifications, on a timely basis, with excellent quality.
- Maintain requirements/specification documents as needed through development life cycle, ensuring requirements are complete, unambiguous, and testable.
- Work within IT to ensure requirements delivered successfully within project constraints
- Continuously identify areas of functional or data overlaps across systems areas to eliminate or reduce redundancies where possible.
Required Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience working as part of project team within financial services technology. Strong knowledge of financial industry and market data is a must. Index or ETF experience is a plus..
- Excellent communication skills – both written and oral. The ability to extract logical processes from an audience not versed in this procedure is a key skill.
- Demonstrated ability to document workflows and requirements effectively.
- Expertise and demonstrated leadership in workflow development and analysis, requirements elicitation, complex business issue analysis and/or system migration analysis.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Quickly understands business or technical issues along with the ability to frame effectively for management, and identify possible remediation.
- Experienced with flow modeling visualization tools (ie: Visio)
- Experienced with MS Office Suite
- Ability to multi-task and juggle priorities among different efforts/projects.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.