Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate across functional groups to review and interpret business issues and needs to develop accurate Business Requirements
• Perform requirements analysis
• Evaluate business processes, develop and implement robust solutions and identify areas of improvement
• Lead multi-functional group reviews of issues and process to successfully drive initiatives to completion
• Complete documentation of initiatives and communicate status and results
• Ensure initiative documentation is complete, accurate, and sored for validation and auditing
• Gather critical information from meetings and assist in developing and communicating reporting to business groups and management
• Work closely across internal business groups and Technology and external vendors
• Ensure solutions meet the business needs and requirements
• Effectively manage projects including developing plans and monitoring performance
• Prioritize initiatives based on regulatory, financial, and customer impact; escalate as necessary
• Serve as a point of contact and liaison between stakeholders
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of initiatives
• Research data required to properly execute queries
• Work in a controlled environment to mitigate risk and provide accurate and timely results by following controlled processes

Additional Responsibilities

• · Ensure query business requirements, structure, output, and approvals are captured and stored for audit and review
• · Partner with other teams to develop and maintain relationships by engaging stakeholders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives as required
• · Assist to coordinate efforts to investigate exceptions and errors with regard to business processes to identify root cause and solutions
• · Assist in identifying and/or resolving risk and controls issues impacting the business, including assisting in the conducting of control reviews or gap analyses for existing processes as needed
• · Review, analyze, and prioritize initiatives, transactions, and processes that have compliance and regulatory impacts
• · Coordinate and collaborate with various functions / departments and project teams across multiple locations
• · Partner with other teams to develop and maintain relationships by engaging stakeholders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives
• · Design/re-design for continuous improvement using Agile, Lean & Six Sigma principles and methods

Skills and qualifications

• · Bachelors degree and/ or equivalent work experience
• · Financial Industry experience preferred
• · 3 years of relevant Business Analyst experience
• · Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• · Sense of ownership and pride in performance
• · The ability to influence stakeholders of all levels and work closely with them to develop solutions
• · Excellent documentation skills
• · Experience in creating Business Requirements, reports, and presentations
• · Highly motivated, energetic, personable, thorough, detail oriented, and ability to multitask
• · Good problem-solving skills.
• · Team player with the ability to work independently
• · Excellent time-management, planning, and prioritization skills
• · Extremely detail-oriented and ability to prioritize and see initiatives through to completion
• · Able to work in a fast-paced organization and meet deadlines
• · Proficiency with Microsoft products, MS Word, MS Excel SQL and MS Power Point