Senior Business Systems Analyst

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We are a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Why do we stand out in technology staffing? We listen and act as advisors for our candidates on how they can best add value, find interesting projects, and pave a path for career advancement. We advocate for best pay, diversity in tech, and best job-fit for every candidate we place.

Our client, an investment firm, is seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst to join their team in Los Angeles, CA!

Responsibilities:

• Communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of requirements, timelines, and deliverables.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear and concise technical specifications that developers can understand and implement.
• Create designs and formulates models, diagrams and documentation using industry standards, tools, version control, and build and test automation to meet business, technical, security, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Stay current with needs and strategies; utilizing formal and informal written communication methods (for example, emails, PowerPoint presentations, executive updates, task lists, updates) to communicate updates and findings; and facilitating project meetings and presentations to all audience types across the organization.
• Lead or participate in multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation; managing project scope; adjusting schedules when necessary; determining daily priorities; ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; following proper escalation paths; and managing client and vendor relationships.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate solutions with other enterprise systems, such as CRM, Accounting, and BI platforms.
• Collect data to identify trends, challenges and opportunities for improvement.
• Engage stakeholders, conduct workshops and collaborate with technical teams to validate proposed solutions.
• Gather, review, and analyze data to extract meaningful insights to enable informed and data-driven decision-making.
• Consult and advise in procedures relating to training and Quality Assurance (QA), testing and roll-out plan. Ensuring alignment between business objectives and software testing.
• Lead the analysis and evaluation of application functionality, providing recommendations to increase utilization of standard application functionality to improve business processes and capabilities.
• Map, review, and optimize business processes in relation to technical solutions, identifying areas for automation and efficiency. This includes recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Economics or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in a business systems analysis or a related technical role
• Proficiency in business analysis tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio, Excel).
• Thorough understanding of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) is paramount.
• Comfort with database/querying tools (e.g., SQL), and PowerBi for data visualization is a plus!
• Strong knowledge of enterprise-level applications (e.g., CRM systems, portfolio management tools, financial reporting systems).
• Strong familiarity with SDLC processes related to both Waterfall and Agile.
• Ability to dissect complex technical and business problems, providing detailed analyses and actionable recommendations (proactive and reactive).
• Must have experience working on large scale projects as well as handling and prioritizing day-to-day operational requests from various stakeholders.
• Strong project management, ability to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point, strong relationship building skills & communication skills.
• Strong ability to adapt to new tools and processes as part of continuous improvement.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills; able to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent organization and documentations skills, with the ability to design and facilitate a group process, elicit contributions, stimulate.
• Knowledge of the Financial Services Industry, specifically Asset Management is a plus!