Business Analyst; Banking Experience

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Serves as subject matter expert associated with content, processes, and procedures associated with vendor and in-house developed applications.  Documents functional requirements, analyzes requirements in the context of software and processes, develops test plans, assists with and documents business process improvement efforts, and works with production issues.

Responsibilities:
Gather requirements from business units and translate those to programmers and developers. Prepare cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses to aid in decisions on system implementation. Confer with clients regarding the nature of the information processing or computation needs. Coordinate and link the computer systems within an organization to increase compatibility and so information can be shared.

Skills:
Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, attention to detail and interpersonal skills.
Basic ability to work independently and manage one's time.
Basic knowledge of design techniques and principles involved in production of drawings and models.
Basic knowledge of computer software, such as Visual Basic, Java, SQL, etc.

Education/Experience:
- University degree or similar education preferably in information technology or information management
- requirements engineering experiences within financial institutions of > 8 years
- solid theoretical understanding and practical experience of use case modelling (UML) in IT projects
- knowledge of securities, single accounts, bookkeeping
- well experienced in stakeholder involvement and management
-Fluent in German and English

KEY REQUIREMENTS:
- as lead RE, coordinate a RE team, define work packages and assign them
- as lead RE, ensure high quality of the work products and a consistent end-to-end requirements view for the project
- elicit and elaborate requirements
- model and Document requirements understandable for clients and subsequence roles within IT
- ensure that specification of the user's needs is accurate, complete and unambiguous
- maintain traceability between requirements and between requirements and requests
- identify impact of changes on the existing requirements
- provide inputs to a first test strategy for the application
- provide input to the Project Manager for prioritizing requirements
- supports testing phase by giving input, review test strategy and test cases

Nice to have:
- IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering or a similar certificate
- experience in using tools like JIRA, Polarion, Enterprise Architect 9.x
- background in software development processes/life cycle
- understanding of financial instruments
- project management experience
- well banking-knowhow about tax, namely about Final Withholding Tax or European Withholding Tax

Required Personality:
Distinctive analytical thinking, well structured, solution-oriented, autonomous, propulsive, proactive, flexible, able to work under pressure, communicative, insistent, responsible

WORK LOCATION: Zurich

START: Asap to 04.03.2015

DURATION: aprox 6 months                          

PERMITS REQUIRED: EU citizen or valid work permit

WORKLOAD: 100%  

LANGUAGE: English, German

REF: RE1622

BRINE SA is a solid, Swiss company with an impeccable reputation on the IT market for offering top IT professionals to major customers for their projects. We offer a speedy and professional solution by carefully selecting suitable consultants and IT-specialists on the basis of their qualification. We pay particular attention to their education, business and technical knowledge, professional experience, individual character and not least, personal preferences. We employ them while they work on our customer projects, take care of their payrolling, and generally strive to ensure they feel comfortable in their work environment, whether regarding business and technical issues, or administrational ones.

Interested?

If yes, then please send me your Curriculum Vitae.