Business Analyst Withholding Tax - German & English Speaking (2242)

For a global bank based here in Zürich we are looking for a BA to join a project.

Job Description For The BA:

- supports business in its duties through IT support and document it to provide a common understanding between the client who use the application and the IT people who built, test and maintain it now and in the future 
- understand business drivers and what needs to be delivered from a business point of view 
- obtain understanding of and commitment to requirements 
- develop, manage, estimate dimensions and consolidate information on the requirements of the project's customers, products and product components according to the requirements engineering process
- identify synergies, redundancies and inconsistencies between the requirements and the project's plans, work products, business strategy and the overall context in applicational and technical architecture

Technical or Other Skills:

Key Deliverables:

- 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

Mandatory education/experience: 

- fluent German and English
- university degree or similar education preferably in information technology or information management 
- requirements engineering experiences within financial institutions of 5 years 
- well understanding of financial instruments 
- SOUND KNOWLEDGE IN US-WITHHOLDING PROCESSES: QI (QUALIFIED INTERMEDIARY) CHAPTER II AND III. 
- GOOD KNOWLEDGE REPORTING FOR US-PERSONS AND US ASSETS 
- solid theoretical understanding and practical experience of use case modelling (UML) in IT projects 
- DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF SECURITIES, SINGLE ACCOUNTS, FX AND FORWARD CONTRACT TRANSACTIONS PROCESSING INCL. CORPORATE ACTIONS

Nice to have know-how:

- well banking-knowhow about tax, primarily Withholding Tax (Austria), EWT 
- experience in using tools like JIRA, Polarion, Enterprise Architect 9.x 
- background in software development processes/life cycle 
- project management experience

We look forward to reading your CV.