What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst - Summit Knowledge position at Argyllinfotech?
Job Description :
Within the Americas IT department, Business Technology Services is looking for a IT business analyst with Summitknowledge, in the Fixed Income IT team. This is a Front to Back-office position within the business analyst group of Client IT department.
He / She / They is managing several evolutions or project aiming at :
Deploying new instruments Implementing and improving PnL, Hedge and market data processes Implementing and improving settlement, confirmation and clearing workflows Implementing regulatory reporting and maintaining quality of the data Remediating the quality of data Identify and collect irregularities in business operations procedures and propose changes and new methodologies. He / She / They also supports Fixed Income, Treasury and Credit activities as well as back-office stakeholders by addressingfunctional issues / questions.
Position requires great knowledge of PnL, hedge, Market data setup and feed and a full transversal overview of the tradeworkflow from input until settlement.
He / She / They centralizes the user requests; coordinates with New York and Paris Head Office Business Analysts and ITteams; liaises with support functions to ensure all impacts are properly identified. Essential Duties and Responsibilities : For all that relates to Fixed Income, Treasury and Credit business : IT Business
Analysis : Close collaboration with the user representatives (traders, sales, operations, etc ) to gather business requirements, including the identification of any potential issue or functional omissions; define and document the business requirements. Write detailed functional specifications for IT development teams. Development of user test cases and validate test results during user acceptance testing, training with Summit end-users. Coordinate the go live and ensure proper system behaviour.
Project scoping and planning, progress reporting, identification and management of issues / risks and communications.
Functional support / maintenance : Responsible for quick resolution of day-to-day issues on Summit (booking, pricing, market data, straightthrough processing, settlement, reporting, accounting ) Monitor the trade workflow and make sure statements and regulatory reporting are accurately produced.
Requirements : Minimum 5 years experience in business analysis functions in the Finance industry Deep knowledge on Summit,
must be familiar with products traded on Fixed Income, Treasury and Creditbusiness.
Must be familiar with Summit STP services for Front Office and Back office as cashflows, accounting,operations and settlements workflows. Deep IT knowledge, the successful candidate
must be able to review source code, write and execute SQLqueries (Sybase, Oracle and SQL Server) and read / understand a script (Windows and Unix as Bash, Perl,Python)
Ability to analyze complex problems, with strong attention to detail and ability to provide solutions toproblems.
Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment on multiple applications. Knowledge of C , C#, python, XML, XSLT, Excel VBA is a plus
