Role: Business Analyst
Employment Type: Contract – 6-9 Months subject to extension
Location: 3 days a week working from Manhattan, NJ and 2 days remote as of now.
FinTech ecosystem (Wealth Management / Asset Management).
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support our applications in the FinTech ecosystem (Wealth Management / Asset Management). This role will require skills in business analysis, systems analysis, documentation of business/functional requirements, customer relationships, solution recommendation, and decision making. Understanding mutual funds, life insurance and/or annuity products would be a plus.
About the Role
· This role requires skills in business analysis, systems analysis, documentation of business/functional requirements, customer relationships, solution recommendation, and decision making.
· Understanding mutual funds, life insurance and/or annuity products would be a plus.
Job Responsibilities
· Interact with business, conduct analysis, and document business processes and requirements.
· Serve as a liaison between the business and technology teams.
· Ability to work with our technical partners to achieve an efficient and effective solution.
· Verify that the implemented solution meets the requirements.
· Analyze and interpret business requirements into functional requirements and specifications that have an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by the technology teams.
· Solicit business requirements using walk-through, document analysis, storyboards, use case scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
· Write clear and concise requirements ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, feasible, unambiguous, traceable, and verifiable.
· Support business and technology teams to ensure key deliverables are met in an accurate timely manner.
· Assist in the troubleshooting of problems and issues; make recommendations and provide alternative solutions when it applies.
· Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.
· Work closely with Agile and Waterfall teams across all phases of a project.
Required Skills
· 12 plus years of Experience as Business Analyst.
· Working experience in data analysis.
· Working knowledge of Agile tools like JIRA and Rally (Agile Central).
· Strong written, verbal and communication skills with the demonstrative ability to work with all levels within the organization
· Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
· Strong attention to accuracy and detail
· Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve services
· Interprets business challenges, identifies trends and recommends best practices
· Explains difficult or sensitive information; collaborates with others to build consensus
· Makes decisions that have cross-functional impact
· Must be team oriented in interacting with a diverse group
· A proactive self-starter with the ability to work independently with limited supervision
· Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple simultaneous priorities