Senior Transfer Agency Business Analyst

SENIOR TRANSFER AGENCY BUSINESS ANALYST

We are seeking a Senior Transfer Agency Business Analyst to join a major banking organisation based in Dublin on a 3 months rolling contract. Candidates must have considerable and recent experience of Transfer Agency systems as this is key to the role.

DESCRIPTION

A program is underway to change the Transfer Agency platform and surrounding applications/infrastructure within Dublin for this major banking organisation. The roles will evolve throughout the life cycle of the program (2-3 years), from Business Analysis, Client Migrations, Change Management, Test Management and Implementation Management. The program will utilise both Waterfall and Agile formal methodologies.

ESSENTIAL FOR THIS ROLE:

- Transfer Agency experience/knowledge
- Business Analyst experience
- Experience on Transfer Agency Systems especially Multifonds

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

- Perform Business Requirements gathering and analysis, and resolution of issues
- Liaison with all internal and external stakeholders, including vendors and clients to ensure Business requirements are agreed and signed off within allocated timeframe.
- Define requirements and ensure the end to end business solution meets the business needs
- Review Internal IT and Vendor development of Functional Specification documents and ensure sign off.
- Application Testing, Implementation and support for Operational Readiness
- Production of related training material
- General program support activities; action, RAID logs, Status updates; follow requests from PM etc

QUALIFICATIONS

- Considerable experience within Transfer Agency.
- Experience on Multifonds TA system although will also consider other TA systems
- Strong skills with Microsoft Office products (Visio, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint)
- Bachelor's degree, professional project certification, or equivalent work experience required
- Experience of data or system migration a distinct advantage
- Experience with Process Management, Analysis and Design methodologies.
- Experience working within a large program and with virtual teams
- Proactive, well organised, detail oriented, possess strong decision making ability and capacity to work independently.
- Demonstrate excellent analytical and logical thinking to understand and analyze complex business processes.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal. Fluent English essential.
- Good listening and questioning skills
- Attention to detail and strong organisational/planning skills
- Ability to multi- task and deliver within exacting timelines.