Description:

Hybrid 3 days a week onsite
Potential to convert
We offer:
- To work with some of the best professionals in the business - for a firm that values individual intellect as much as teamwork
- State-of-the-art offices that are designed to maximize collaboration
- Flexible working arrangements
- Enriching challenges that provide opportunity for constant learning and advancement
- An environment which is leveraging technology to its highest potential
Team Profile:
Non-Financial Risk Technology (NFRT) provides operational controls and surveillance capabilities to enhance the firm's resilience to threats and fraudulent behavior. Our support of critical business functions extends to archival & records management, business continuity planning and due diligence investigations.
Position Description:
This role is part of the Financial Advisor Monitoring and Registration Department, within NFRT. This team supports the Risk and Compliance divisions with tools and applications to assist them with their task of monitoring Financial Advisor's compliance with the Firm's policies and procedures.
As a Business Analyst, you will be responsible for providing business analysis, project management, and data analysis support for tool enhancements: eliciting and documenting business requirements, user acceptance testing, data analysis, and product support. The ideal candidate should have the skills listed below but in addition should be a self- driven, dedicated individual who works well in a team and thinks and acts strategically. When faced with a problem, the candidate should be able to ask questions and leverage the skills and expertise of those around them.
Key Responsibilities:
- Elicit, analyze, generate Business requirements documents (including Agile user stories, proof of concept models, and supporting documentation)
- Analyze data sets to determine data gaps and work with cross functional teams to bridge the gap
- Liaise with the development team to ensure the product is developed according to specifications
- Conduct Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), write and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test plan
- Create and manage the overall project plan at the project level; and escalate delays to the program lead.
- Provide post deployment support and respond to inquiries from business clients regarding specific controls.
Qualifications
Skills Required:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar required
- Minimum 10 years of experience in global organizations as a Technical Business Analyst.
- Proficiency in Data Analysis, with working experience in SQL and relational databases
- Established technical knowledge in software development life cycle and agile methodologies.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written; as well as work in an international team setting.
- Collaborate effectively across a variety of IT and Business groups, across regions and roles.
- Self-motivated individual and creative thinker who will take ownership of tasks assigned.
- Ability to problem solve and have creative solutions in challenging environments
- Able to thrive in a fast-paced, high energy, demanding and team-orientated environment
- Manage and delegate workload through the team
- Good customer service skills. Ability to deal with difficult situations gracefully.
- Experience in trade lifecycles and asset classes, Equity, Fixed Income, Options, Futures
- Understanding of Compliance surveillance platforms (Actimize, MANTAS, Sungard) and their models, Wash trades, Marking the Open/Close, Spoofing, Insider Trading, etc.
Skills Desired:
- IT Project Management and SDLC knowledge/experience (Waterfall, Agile/Scrum) and experience using BDD.
- Experience working in medium to large-scale development projects.
- Knowledge of trades data, positions data, reference data.