FHC Program Management – Senior Business Analyst recruitment

Position Category: Administration/Clerical

Position Title: FHC Program Management - Senior Business Analyst

Job Level: Senior Manager

Location: USA - NY - New York

Education Required: Bachelors Degree

Position Description:
The FHC Governance Committee is chartered to oversee Morgan Stanley's efforts to achieve Financial Holding Company excellence. Morgan Stanley's Chief Operating Officer chairs the committee, and its members include business leaders from across the Firm.

In order to help it achieve its mandate, the committee determined that it was necessary to establish the FHC Program Management (FHC PM) department, reporting to the office of the Chief Operating Officer.

FHC PM comprises the following five functions:
1. Major Infrastructure Initiative Delivery and Financial Management
2. Regulatory Response Oversight
3. Standards and Tools
4. Governance and Reporting
5. Business Management and Operations

The Standards and Tools function is seeking to hire a Senior Business Analyst in New York.

The Senior Business Analyst would fill an important role within the function and have the opportunity to work closely with the business process owners, technology service providers and key stakeholders. They would help evolve the standard procedures and help establish the tools to support the procedures. Specially, the Senior Business Analyst would:

• Gather business requirements, synthesize the requirements and translate these to functional requirements that are meaningful to the technology service providers
• Document functional attributes of the tools as they evolve including artifacts such as the data dictionary and report specifications
• Liaison between the business owners and technology service providers to ensure successful translation of requirements and understanding of options for delivery against the requirements
• Help define and evolve the support model for the tools
• Develop UAT plans, engage the FHC PM department in UAT and assist with testing
• Assist with helping the users successfully adopt and fully leverage the tools by providing training and help materials
• Provide application functional support to the FHC PM department and the users external to FHC PM
• Assist with researching similar tools on the market and those used in-house to help define the tools strategy

Skills Required:
? 8-10 years of business analysis experience including requirement gathering and analysis
? Experience gathering and synthesizing business requirements and creating functional specifications
? Experience gathering and defining reporting requirements
? Experience with typical industry standard processes and templates for requirement documentation (e.g., wireframes, prioritization methods)
? Project / software development life cycle knowledge and experience (PLC / SDLC)
? Data analysis experience
? Excellent written and oral communications skills
? Ability to collaborate and build consensus
? Ability to negotiate and influence others without direct reporting lines
? Ability to work independently as well as part of team
? Attention to detail
? Excellent problem solving skills
? Experience as a team member on a team facilitating business process design and support tools
? Exceptional MS Excel skills
? Good MS PowerPoint and Visio skills
? Basic database modelling knowledge

Skills Desired:
? MS Project, Access
? Basic level SQL knowledge