What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst - Financial Services position at Pitisci & Associates?
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Job Description:
- We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst, Technology, to play a crucial role in the analysis and development of transactional order data store across different asset classes.
- Collaborate with Trading Desks (Equity, Option, Fixed Income, Mutual Fund and Structured Products), Compliance/Legal and Technology Teams.
- The successful candidate will be instrumental from analysis, documentation, solution inception through to ongoing maintenance, covering a wide array of trading aspects and system integrations. This role encompasses the analysis and support of new technology solutions and processes, enhancements of existing systems, including workflow and data flow design.
- Analysis and support of new technology solutions and processes, enhancements of existing systems, including workflow and data flow design.
- Responsibilities include leading requirement gathering, analysis, documentation, user testing facilitation, and contributing to the development and maintenance of processes and procedures.
- Skilled in gathering information, writing BRD and FRD, and advanced SQL queries.
- Proficient in MS Office; TFS, Postman, and Oracle databases knowledge is advantageous.
- Adaptable, with the ability to translate between technical and business languages.
- Effective at problem-solving, decision-making, and maintaining current industry knowledge.
- Experience with FIX, FpML message formats.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Domain Expertise: Must have knowledge of the Financial Services industry, front, middle, and back-office experience and an understanding of an order/trade life cycle. Must have knowledge of building and maintaining of high volume, mission critical data stores
Technical Proficiency: Required experience with Agile methodology, SQL, JSON, and other relevant technologies.
Requirements Gathering: Lead cross-functional efforts to define detailed business and technical requirements.
Stakeholder Engagement: Work collaboratively across the organization to gather, share, and articulate information.
Design Collaboration: Utilize design-thinking to co-create and bring experiences to life.
User Stories Creation: Convert requirements into detailed user stories to guide development and testing.
Feature Prioritization: Manage and prioritize the application backlog for sprint planning.
Data Analysis: Use data analysis to inform decisions.
Agile Facilitation: Lead Scrum ceremonies, including planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
Client Data Synthesis: Develop customized solutions based on client data analysis.
Cross-functional Leadership: Drive practice management improvements by working with various departments.
Risk and Change Management: Apply principles effectively to manage risks and changes.
Professional Development: Engage in training and education programs to stay current with industry trends and technologies.
Firm Initiative Participation: Actively contribute to firm-wide initiatives as directed. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, with occasional non-standard hours including nights, weekends, and on-call responsibilities. Team collaboration is essential.
