Business Analyst Basel/Risk

The Business Analyst analyzes business systems and/or processes to identify user needs, document requirements, and address operations/process issues/improvements to accomplish business objectives. The Business Analyst has a thorough understanding of the business, industry, and/or product, is familiar with the systems used, and is responsible for analyzing, evaluating, and implementing improvements to business systems and processes.

Responsibilities:

* Establish, manage, and own end to end project plan small development projects including; Project Planning/Tracking; Status Reporting; Issue Management/Escalation/Resolution; Change Control; Quality Control; Risk Management; Financial Management; and Resource Management.
* Participate in the creation or management of the applicable Project Life Cycle deliverables
* Participate in the review of:

* Systems Prospectus (Systems Requirements Analysis-SRA).
* Systems Delivery Spec (SDS).
* User Procedure Documents (UPD).
* Training Documents.

* Perform feasibility and cost/benefits analysis.
* Identify and recommends product enhancements and best practices in applicable product category in collaboration with the Product Manager.
* Create current and future state process flows, performs gap analysis, and documents recommended solutions.

Qualifications:

* Ability to analyze business systems and/or business processes to identify user needs, document requirements, and address operation/process issues/improvements to accomplish business objectives.
* Previous experience working through a Basel implementation highly desired.
* Strong knowledge of Capital Markets, Risk Management as well as Technology and Technology Implementation, with a deep understand of various financial products including fixed income, foreign exchange, derivatives and securities lending. Financial markets background and risk domain knowledge are highly desired.
* Strong experience with Agile Methodology including Use Cases and User Stories.
* Demonstrated strength in requirements analysis and use case development; experience with large-scale systems development.
* Strong experience as a liaison between the Business Stakeholders and the IT group.
* Understanding of analysis and project life cycle methodologies (data flow diagrams, case tool analysis, work & process flow diagrams, FSDM, RAD).
* Working knowledge of business process to be able to effectively drive solutions as experienced in large corporate environments.
* Knowledge of MS Office.
* Advanced degrees in Math, Statistics or Engineering would be very helpful.

At this time, the client is only interested in candidates in the United States. If interested, call Kyle at 212-707-8501. Thanks!
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