Our client a large Investment Bank is looking for a Business Analyst with strong Equities experience for a long term consulting assignment.
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: Specific Experience Requirements
Candidates should have been actively involved in usability' analysis in a Sales & Trading environment, preferably Cash Equities. We are looking for someone to perform this analysis across a broad range of end users and extrapolate UI requirements and validate using wire frames'. Good communication in a trading environment is required.
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