Sr. Process Business Analyst recruitment

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.