Functional Analyst - Sercurities

Functional Analyst

Tasks and responsibilities required of the Functional Analyst

- Review, analyse and comment business requirements.
- Prepare and describe the impacts on other projects, business processes and systems.
- Create detailed functional and systems requirements, ability to write SRA.
- Delivery of Functional Acceptance Criteria.
- Detailed reporting about test status, including documentation of software defects.
- Interface between business and IT development.
- Produce, document, perform and validate test cases.
- Assist and advise customer's testing activities.
- Prepare and support customer training.
- Presentations to end users about functional matters.
- Work with prescribed methodologies for involvement in all stages of project life cycle during Specification Phase actively support functional issue resolution.
- Work together with business and IT. to facilitate resolution of issues and defects during System Test and BAT.
- Help for production issue resolution and provide support for explaining system results and resolving customer queries.
- Write test approach document.

Skills required of the Functional Analyst

- At least 5 years within the financial industry (Back Office or Securitises division)
- Excellent analytical skills
- Team player with a positive and pro-active attitude
- Competent use of MS Office
- French/German skills would be an advantage

About the role of Functional Analyst

In your position as Functional Analyst you will interface between end-users and IT professionals in order to develop the requirements of mission critical business services and IT applications, to test them and   to participate in their implementation. Write test approach document.

About my client

My client is a financial services institution based in Luxembourg, they are seeking a Functional analyst with a profile similar to the one above. The initial contract will run for 3 months with possible extensions.