About TSR:

TSR is a relationship-based, customer-focused IT and technical services staffing company.

For over 40 years TSR, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, TSR Consulting Services, have prospered in the Information Technology staffing business, earning the respect of companies both large and small with well refined candidate screening, timely placement, and a real understanding of the right skill sets required by our clients.

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We do not believe in building a vision around the company but building a company around our vision, which is simply;

Every employee's voice matters, their effort is appreciated, and their talent is rewarded.

We challenge each employee daily, to raise the bar on how we treat our consultants and candidates. For far too long in this industry, candidates have been ghosted, lied to, or placed at a client and then forgotten about. Each day our staff works tirelessly at qualifying and placing, top talent with our clients, in a compassionate and caring manner.

Not every candidate is a match for the job, but every candidate and consultant will be treated with respect and professionalism.
Senior Technical Business Analyst
Job Description

• Location: New York, New York
• Type: Contract
• Job #79299

Our client, a leading financial services company is hiring a Senior Technical Business Analyst on a contract basis.

Work Location : New York, NY
Job ID : 79299

Summary:

This role is part of the Financial Advisor Monitoring and Registration Department. 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.

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.

Required Skills:

• 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.
• IT Project Management and SDLC knowledge/experience (Waterfall, Agile/Scrum) and experience using BDD is desired.
• Experience working in medium to large-scale development projects is an advantage.
• Knowledge of trades data, positions data, reference data is a plus.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar.

Pay Rate Range: $53-$69/hr