Senior Business Systems Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

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• Create and manage priority of JIRA tickets relating to the specific work.

• Participate in system enhancements, UAT, and production support activities.

• Build and maintain detailed documentation of data flows, critical processes, and business logic.

• Perform data mapping, validation, and gap analysis.

• Set up and run meetings with stakeholders to gather requirements and obtain sign-offs.

• Run solution design meetings with engineers and solution architects.

• Translate business needs into functional and technical specifications for development teams.

• Work closely with developers to validate solutions and ensure alignment with business requirements.

• Write test cases and assist with unit testing/help business.

 

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What do you need to succeed?

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• Minimum 5 years of experience as a business systems analyst in financial services, preferably investment management or asset management.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

• Proficient in SQL (queries, joins, data extraction, etc.) for data mining and analysis.

• Experience working within Agile methodology, specifically Scrum.

• Experience leading a project (Project Management).

• Strong understanding of Investment Management business domain and concepts (equities, fixed income, derivatives, mutual funds, etc.).

• Experience in identifying and assessing key business processes.

• Expert communication skills (written and verbal)—able to interface with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Must contribute and work well with others, have good interpersonal skills (build relationships/foster collaboration).

• Able to build strategic business relationships with stakeholders and other team members.

• Work effectively through issues, with a proven history of keen judgement in distinguishing between what users want versus what they need and prioritizing conflicting factors such as urgency, time to deliver, regulatory considerations, etc.

• Think critically (on your own and with others).

• Be a continuous learner, open to new ideas/processes and to feedback.

• Self-starter, independent, organized, able to manage deadlines among different projects/priorities.

• Experience with clear, concise requirements gathering.

• Able to take problem statement and provide several solutions, including a root cause analysis.

• Able to write test cases for unit testing.