Senior Business Analyst - Compliance Job

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST - COMPLIANCE/CONTROL ROOM needed for a CONTRACT opportunity with Yoh's client located in New York, NY.

THE BIG PICTURE - TOP SKILLS YOU SHOULD POSSESS:

- Compliance
- Control Room
- Business Analysis.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

- Gathering, verification, analysis, and documentation of business requirements.
- Data and systems analysis to support documentation and understanding of the current-state.
- Gaining client and IT sign-off of requirements documents and specifications by conducting walkthroughs, presentations, and formal reviews.
- Perform reviews and provide feedback on documentation produced by other Business Analysts.
- Drive and deliver initiatives to improve the team's analysis processes, methods, and documentation.
- Work closely with the development teams to develop functional specifications and help develop technical designs.
- Ensure that development teams and management have a clear understanding of business priorities.
- Plan, script, manage, and execute acceptance testing - both UAT, with the client performing execution, and acceptance testing prior to UAT start.
- Plan and execute user training on new systems.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THE TABLE:

- Previous experience working as a Business Analyst in a technology team in a financial services organization (preferably a tier 1 investment bank).
- A good knowledge of equity or debt products, preferably though the whole product life cycle.
- Knowledge of the key responsibilities of an investment bank's Compliance department (preferably including Control Room and Position Monitoring/large shareholding disclosure requirements).
- Experience of Compliance, public/private side interactions, and particularly information barriers surveillance using the Actimize platform will be an advantage.
- An in-depth understanding of business analysis (including knowledge of at least one requirements management/modelling tool) and with the ability to select the right tools/methodologies for a given task.
- Experience of writing test strategies, plans, scripts, and cases.
- A good understanding of the technology product and project life cycle.
- The ability to work effectively with all levels of clients and IT stakeholders up to and including director.
- Excellent communications skills - both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Systems and data analysis skills, including SQL and desktop data analysis tools. Any data modelling/warehousing experience would be an advantage.

BONUS POINTS! OTHERWISE KNOWN AS PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Able to plan, own, and run a portfolio of analysis tasks.
- Flexible, able to organize and prioritize your own.
- Able to identify and interpret stakeholders needs and requirements
- Preferably educated to at least Bachelor's degree level or equivalent.
- A strong critical thinker with creative problem solving skills.
- Able to work with remote stakeholders and team members.

OPPORTUNITY IS CALLING, APPLY NOW!

RECRUITER: Arvind Thirumalaisamy

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Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.

J2W: INFOTECH

Tax Term: CON_W2 J2WBRNY

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Branch: IT & Telecom