Senior Business Analyst

Job Description
What is the opportunity?

As a Senior Business Analyst in the Trade Compliance IT team, you will execute all aspects of requirement delivery and data analysis- planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, and requirements management. You will be a part of a multi-disciplinary scrum team, working closely with requirements stakeholders to make decisions about requirements approach – requirements deliverables, activities, effort estimates and will recommend best courses of action.

What will you do?

• Elicit functional and system requirements for Trade Compliance projects for Capital Markets and Wealth Management

• Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of details and accuracy of estimates

• Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements using Agile methodology

• Define practical user experiences, including storytelling, personas, process flows and interactions

• Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards

• Apply advanced coverage analysis techniques to ensure relationship between scope, detailed requirements, and testing through to implementation

• Contribute to successful project completion within budget and on time by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies.

• Interact with source systems that will provide data for trade, market, client and reference data for the application.

• Manage data acquisition and data mapping activities.

• Lead detailed requirements and specifications phase identifying, tracking, escalating and/or resolving business systems issues.

• Address and clarify specifications for business partners on data mapping related issues.

• Work with the ETL team, developers, Vendor consultants and numerous data sources to gather data requirements and mapping specifications.

• Create mapping specifications from various data sources and file formats to a vendor data model.

• Contribute to successful project completion within budget and on time by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies.

• Develop detailed plans and accurate estimates for completion of the data mapping specifications and testing activities.

• Provide BSA support to development team during development, testing and implementation.

• Participate in implementation planning, data preparation and post implementation validation.

What do you need to succeed?

Technical Skills

• 5+ years of experience with business systems analysis and software development.

• Expertise in data mapping and creating data mapping specifications.

• Familiarity with ETL processes

• Expertise in gathering, analyzing and documenting business rules for processing data.

• Expertise in test planning, test case preparation and testing of applications and data mapping.

• Familiarity with SQL database and experience with scripting languages (SQL)

• Ability to understanding of data base models for data mapping.

• Experience in working with large projects with multiple data sources and system interfaces.

• Strong business system analysis fundamentals and documentation skills

• Experience with software development methods and life cycle.

• Expertise in coordinating business analysis activities during all phases of the project.

• Ability to work with a global business group and requirements

• Expertise in managing various stakeholder expectations in delivering project deliverables.

Business Knowledge

• Knowledge of global securities industry and products

• Advanced knowledge of North American and international securities trading and data related to complete trade life cycle.

• Knowledge of capital markets compliance is an asset.

• Knowledge of financial industry and functions.

Core Behaviors:

• Effectively communicates and builds relationship with team members, stakeholders and business partners in order to complete deliverables.

• Ability to develop quality solutions for business problems.

• Maintains client expectation regarding quality and timelines

• Creative problem solving skills and attention to detail

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, detail oriented project environment

• Works well in a team and supports team members and users

• Maintains a positive attitude and gets things done.

• Strong customer service, interpersonal and analytical skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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