Thursday, March 12, 2009

UI Business Analyst in New York, NY

Thursday, March 12, 2009
A well known in Investment Bank in the New York City area is looking for a Cash Equities Business Analyst with UI experience.

Individual must have Usability experience.

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.

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 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.

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

Interested candidates please contact Pedro Garcia at 212-661-8235 x237 or pedro(dot)garcia(at)ajilon(dot)com
Adecco / Ajilon is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).



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