IT Business Analyst

The business analyst responsibilities will include analyzing and documenting all Finance requirements for new project and/or modifications to existing system/process, liaise with IT developers to communicate those requirements and communicate to project leadership team on project status throughout the project lifecycle.
- Lead the requirements gathering and analytical efforts related to Regulatory Reporting and Financial Control initiatives.
- Ability to interpret Regulatory Regulations into development requirements/specifications as required for report development.
- Creation of business requirement documentation (BRD) and functional requirements documentation (FRD).
- Ability to lead the translation of Finance’s regulatory requirements into data sourcing requirements/specifications as required for report development.
- Perform gap analysis on data, systems, processes and procedures as required for the project.
- Close alignment with the development teams to ensure realistic plans are developed, respective milestones tracked, met and reporting provided
- Contribute to process re-engineering and process improvement where applicable.

**Specific experience includes**:

- Lead engagement with US Reg Apps and Axiom development teams to translate current interface specification requirements to new interface specification requirements.
- Develop and document current state environment and processing flows.
- Seeks out industry trends and regulatory knowledge to understand alternative approaches and/or solutions.
- Contribute to process re-engineering and process improvement where applicable
- Analysis of systems should include identification of functionality gaps in system and/or process
- Reference data analysis and documentation-product and counterparty static.
- Ensure GAP analysis is done for all related changes to existing IT systems, processes, procedures and/or interfaces.
- Develop functional and technical specifications (where appropriate).
- Liaise with US RegApps and Axiom IT developers to communicate data sourcing / system requirements and current/future state architecture.
- Communicate project status as necessary to project manager.
- Knowledge of Investment banking products.
- Knowledge of project SDLC lifecycle

**Qualifications**
- 5+ years’ experience in Business Analysis/Project management
- Experience in US or foreign banking organization (commercial bank or broker dealer), Bank Holding Company regulatory reporting
- Minimal requirements - MS Word, MS Project, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel, Visio
- Experience with Axiom preferred
- Proficient in data analysis using SQL
- Experience with logical and physical models, proof of concept to implementation.
- Experience in documenting Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Interface Specifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- Highly analytical and willing to lead work through root cause analysis on process, capability, and data issues; and to effectively facilitate collaboration on resolution
- Experience in data analytics, control, reconciliation and remediation
- Driving excellence in his/her own projects and peers
- Effective and professional verbal and written communication

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday