Product Business Analyst Vendor recruitment

Alexander Black Recruitment is urgently looking for Business Analyst to join our high profile client who is a well known vendor.

Our client provides data management platforms to the securities and investment management industry. They have offices across the globe and are the have the number one product for the investment industry.

The successful candidate will have functional lead responsibility throughout a project implementation lifecycle. He/she will need to interface with the client and demonstrate high level of business competency and be adept at leveraging his/her experience to manage client expectations and ensure successful deployment of my Clients software.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a project delivery work stream alongside client business users and client project team to determine and implement solutions that meet their business objectives and timelines.

• Coordinate with business users and analysts to identify business solutions to meet their objectives. Presenting a pragmatic delivery approach; differentiating between what can be done and what should be done, and delivering this message to the Client.

• Preparation of risk assessments for a project work stream, identifying potential risks and quantifying their impact on the project budget and timeline. Management of the risks and issues arising from the project work stream to conclusion, escalating effectively where necessary.

• Lead the business users and analysts through the Analysis and Design stages of the project, providing ad-hoc training and knowledge transfer to enable them to make informed decisions on solutions provided.

• Provide industry expertise at the pre-sales stage, to support the pre-sales team in completion of pre-sales activities, such as RFP responses, client presentations and demonstrations.

We would expect the successful candidate to have played a key role in the full IT project lifecycle, with particular focus on the implementation of Vendor data services, centralization and aggregation of reference data, and distribution and integration to third party and in house systems.

Business Analysts must have:

§ Vendor experience – data management solutions or very closely related (accounting , trading, OMS, risk systems)

§ Hands on BA experience with data projects, integration projects

§ Works with and good knowledge of instrument reference data and vendor feeds / services that provide it

§ Very client facing and understands ideally buy and sell side clients

§ Sound technical skills for a hands on BA – working SQL knowledge and good appreciation of XML and generally IT architectures

§ Excellent understanding of relational data models

Knowledge and experience of vendor data service provider feeds, such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Telekurs, MarkIT and IDC is essential, and we are particularly looking for candidates with in depth understanding of data complexity and entity relationships across vendor feeds.

My client offers serious progression and a very reasonable bonus scheme.

My client is based in London

If this sounds of interest then please send your most recent cv to banking@alexanderblackrecruitment.co.uk or call James Holland on 0207 590 3681