Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Equities Business Analyst in New York, NY

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A well known investment bank in New York City is looking for an Equities Busiess Analyst.

Candidate must have experience in Cash Equities involving sales and trading.

Position Summary:
The Business Analyst (BA) has the primary responsibility to elicit, analyze, validate, specify and verify requirements and specifications. This position will provide this service as directed by the project stakeholders directly to the business, technology and end users. The BA serves as the conduit between the business or customer community and the software development team. This position will directly report into the Equities Central BA team for best practices/standards and project prioritization.

A BA is involved at some level throughout the entire system or software development life cycle. When the requirements baseline is established at the end of the Requirements and Design phases, the focus is shifted towards the management of the requirements specification and verifying the fulfillment of all requirements during the Implementation and Testing phases.
Business coverage and Location
This position will cover Business Analysis for the Cash Equities business (including Exchange Traded Options & Futures) based mainly in North America. However, there may be some travel required to Europe/Asia.

Job Responsibilities
- Work closely with project managers, lead developers and business users to formulize a business idea and define requests.
- Interview business users, subject matter experts and Technology resources to elicit requirements.
- Analyze gathered requirements data, verify requirements and create functional specifications.
- Support the decision process for vendor/build solution options by providing a well defined gap analysis.
- Work with Development and QA teams to transition business requirements into their respective parts of the development process.
- Work with subject matter experts to produce relevant artifacts e.g. process flow charts, architectural diagrams, and design documents.
- Create user documentation such as user guides, quick reference guides, and release notes.
- Create technical documentation such as system administrator guides.

Experience: General Experience Requirements
.Minimum of 3 years experience as a Business Analysis supporting Cash Equities.
.Equities market knowledge and a strong familiarity with trading, trading workflows, and trading technology is essential.
.Exposure to Business Process Modeling would be an added benefit.
.Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills (writing sample required).

Specific Business Experience Requirements
Any candidate would be expected to have strong working knowledge and previous experience in the area of Equities Sales and Trading from a sell side investment bank perspective covering Equities markets in the major centers.

PLEASE EMAIL RESUME IN MS WORD WITH SHORT SYNOPSIS OF MATCHING SKILLS/ EXPERIENCE.

Interested candidates please contact Pedro Garcia at pedro(dot)garcia(at)ajilon(dot)com
Adecco / Ajilon is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).



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