Job Description :
Role: Business Analyst
Location : Reston, VA
Duration: 6 Months+


Details:
Examine, assess, and document business operations and procedures of a financial management, product, or trading unit. Relate these procedures to IT/IS systems and applications that are designed to enable the operating unit to accomplish its objectives. Assist operating unit staff by developing reports, downloads, and analyses from discipline-specific systems and applications. Provide input to IT/IS specialists in development projects to assist in developing specifications and functionalities in financial IT systems.

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS
Assess procedures and business processes in a financial management, accounting, transactional, or business operations unit for methods of automating them or improving existing applications supporting them.
Participate in meetings with financial management, Accounting, or product management staff and application developers and project managers to plan development or upgrades of applications used by their offices or business units.
Participate in planning testing and acceptance of newly developed financial management software by client group who will be using it.
May provide support to applications in production by tracking and troubleshooting problems and ensuring continued and efficient operation of application in production, and full access by its users.
Develop queries, analyses, or reports from financial management applications for operations or management staff of assigned business unit.
Qualification:
EDUCATION Bachelor''s Degree or equivalent required
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE 5+ years of related experience
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Working knowledge of MS Office suite of products along with SQL, Database concepts and Business Intelligence tools. Ability to learn new skills and concepts and apply it to solve problems. Bachelor’s degree in an information technology related field preferred. Works well in a team environment and collaborates effectively.
Must be able to troubleshoot and resolve data issues for internal and external users Strong analytical, critical thinking and interpersonal skills Ability to quickly learn complicate application systems and understand business processes and navigate underlying data model Ability to work across different business units, build strong working relationship with business and technical staff, and communicate effectively across all levels of the organization Good working knowledge of MS Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Visio, and Project Working knowledge of mortgage data, loan data, trading data and other financial data is preferred Prior experience working with production support is a plus
             

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