IB Technology Compliance Business Analyst – VP recruitment
J.P. Morgan is a leader in financial services, offering innovative and intelligent solutions to clients in more than 100 countries with one of the most comprehensive global product platforms available.
We are in search of a Senior Business Analyst within JPMorgan's Investment Bank Technology - Core Processing area, specifically servicing the Compliance and Surveillance groups located in the US, EMEA and Asia-Pacific.
The Surveillance Online Analytical Reporting system (SONAR), has been designed for the purpose of assisting the JP Morgan Surveillance and Compliance groups in their efforts to detect inappropriate trading activity. SONAR collects various types of data from multiple systems, which it uses in the execution of filters (automated programs that detect irregular trades or patterns of trades) to produce analytical (batch) reports. This data is also available for ad-hoc analysis through the SONAR interface (Query Browser). SONAR is a highly flexible system that is quickly adaptable to the ever changing business environment, rules, and regulations.
The business analyst will to work with Compliance officers and analysts to define business requirements and specify data requirements. The role will involve working closely with the technical developers and component testers within the team to ensure requirements have been built correctly. The successful candidate will need to work with the project managers to ensure correct reporting of status and appraisal of effort and solutions, and be delivery focused with a keen eye toward project and artifact completion to meet deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
Responsible for the full data life cycle from business requirements analysis and data feed definition, to data mapping and working with QA team to facilitate feed testing
- Work with Compliance and Surveillance to organize, analyze and document business requirements for surveillance, reports, and relevant workflows
- Responsible for gathering and documenting functional requirements, producing detailed functional specification.
- Leverage the knowledge of functional requirements to assist with user interface design and wireframe documentation and review
- Develop use cases and oversee creation of test scripts by the QA team
- Work with build and component testing staff to ensure deliverables meet business requirements
- Contribute to development of best practices for the identification, collection, consolidation, validation, tracking and reporting of data.
- Oversee development of data definitions, helping to analyzing data sets for data anomalies and/or to verify data quality and content, and producing data quality metrics
- Oversees the integration of data transformation in the overall architecture. Recommend and develop if necessary, new methodologies for supporting information management security and compliance requirements as it relates to data management.
- Work with business partners to help identify, analyze and resolve data errors and inconsistencies
- Understand high-level database architectures and work with data analysts and architects to ensure database designs are consistent with information architecture and information management and industry standards.
Skills
- 7+ years experience in the fields of business and data analysis in Capital Markets
- Experience with front, middle and back office trade processing platforms and knowledge of trading products and flows
- Experience working with trading data in the context of Compliance and Surveillance
- Experience working with application support, or other type of client-facing function
- Experience with standard business modeling techniques, such as cross-functional process flows, use cases, wireframes, and UML
- functional understanding of data modeling and relational database design concepts
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated ability to interact with all technical and non-technical members of the organization including senior management
- Able to multi-task with ease including a demonstrated track record of delivering multiple concurrent complex technical projects on time
- Experience working within a SQL server environment
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills; excellent documentation and presentation skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, Visio, and Project
Preferred Experience
- Experience in related fields of Application development, QA, Project Management, or Technical Writing
- Formal training in the BA discipline, such as a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, CBAP certification from the IIBA, PMP certification from the PMI, etc.
- Ability to navigate on UNIX
- Functional knowledge of T-SQL