Sr. Business Analyst/Fund Services/Custody/Investment Bank

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Job description

Our client, a leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries. They provide consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

Description:
Global Fund Services Technology team is building new capabilities for creating
competitive advantage for Major Global Bank.
Main contribution of this position is to build out new strategic Corporate Actions solution
for Global Fund Services business at Major Global Bank. The candidate will need to translate business requirements into functional specifications or User Stories for technology implementation of enhancements to applications. The expectation is for clear lineage from need to solution to ensure alignment with business strategy, working with crossfunctional IT teams, stakeholders, and vendors, on multiple projects.
This is not a role within PMO (Project Management Office).
Key Responsibilities:
• Perform analysis (including sequence diagrams, future state proposals)
• Creating and maintaining well-articulated and testable Requirements in Functional
Requirement documents, User Stories / Features or other document artifacts as per
Major Global Bank's standard SDLC procedures
• Managing project scope / Scrum Boards / Kanban Boards
• Ascertaining traceability and documenting evidence for it for each individual success
criteria from the original request, through development, and the successful test of that
criteria;
• Developing expertise in the project subject matter, sufficient to accurately assess and
address the business requirements;
• Evaluation of business requirements to ensure the feasibility of the success criteria, and
creating alternatives when the initial requirements cannot be met within acceptable cost
or schedule parameters;
• Discovery of all implications of instituting project requirements on the existing business
process, clients, and downstream systems; documenting those implications;
• Review of project supporting artifacts such as the Technical Design Doc and Test Plan
to ensure the project requirements are accounted for and accurately addressed;
• Collaborating with testing team and contributing towards test strategy and cases
• Obtaining timely UAT approvals;
• Following appropriate escalation path, when necessary;
• Identifying and communicating risks / issues and their impact to project deliverables in a
timely manner;
• Create and maintain issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules;
• Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements, provide necessary
guidance to testers;
• Supporting the project manager through effective communication of details to enable
the project manager to accurately represent the project to stakeholders.

Qualifications:
Knowledge/Experience:
• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS)
• Relevant Business / Functional Analysis experience in financial or technology sector
preferably in external client facing roles and significant experience across the full project
lifecycle
• Proven delivery record of independently handling multiple projects involving process
change and technology enhancements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to handle multiple complex projects
"Must have" Skills:
• Knowledge of and experience with Securities Services (Fund Services and Custody
businesses), as well as associated workflows.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (waterfall and agile)
• Proficiency with Agile development tools such as JIRA or Rally
• Enthusiastic and proactive approach
• Ability to summarize the expectations, decisions and actions resulting from key
conversations and publishing them to larger group of stakeholders in a manner that can
be easily understood.
• Excellent analytical and process-based skills, i.e. process flow diagrams, business
modelling , and functional design
• Data analysis - Must have proficiency with SQL, Microsoft Excel
• Expertise in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
• Proven self-motivation to take initiative and master new tasks quickly
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines and approach work
methodically with attention to detail.

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