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Business Analyst- Capital Markets

October 21, 2022 by

Business Analyst- Capital Markets

Typical Day in Role
• Preparing the BRD documentation for developers
• Manage, elicit, analyze and document detailed-level business and functional requirements (relating to data, business rules, calculations, report outputs) utilizing relevant requirements artifacts.
• Lead and conduct workshops to facilitate requirements gathering and discovery.
• Construct data flow diagrams, business and system context diagrams.
• Work closely with stakeholders to assess the current and future states and perform detailed gap analyses.
• Identify upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Produce breakdown of effort estimates for analysis and requirements-related activities.
• Deliver on project requirements using Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Effectively communicate and build rapport with all team members and stakeholders, including various source system teams and vendor teams.
• Provide hands-on support during various cycles of testing including Functional Testing, Quality Assurance, Systems Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Actively contribute to process re-engineering and process improvement.
• Ability to resolve complex, multi-faceted problems to meet the business needs of Global Banking & Markets, by applying their financial and technological knowledge to the design of systems solutions, methodologies, and/or processes. This may involve rapid prototyping, with requirements and solutions developed on an iterative basis that provides interim deliverables until a final production solution is created. This includes conducting research and analysis, accurately and clearly defining user requirements and processes, and liaising with the users.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
• 5 + years’ Business Analysts experience gathering requirements, designing methodologies, building test cases, executing test and supporting production system
• 3+ years’ experience within the Capital Markets field (ideally within Market Risk)
• Strong SQL skills required – min 5 years’ experience (contractor should be able to run queries easily and update if needed)
• Familiar with Linux applications
• Experience working and managing Agile requirements in JIRA is required.

Nice-To-Have Skills:
• Market Risk experience is an asset
• Kafka and Elastic Search Search – data is published to Elastic Search (just to have JSON Structure) * don’t need expertise in that*
• Recent (within last 3 years’) real time analytical and formal modelling tools and keep current with rapidly changing technology
• RiskWatch experience is an asset

Soft Skills:
• Strong knowledge of requirements / design methodology – detail oriented, analytical and capable of investigating complex / technical issues and provide alternative solutions, project methodologies including Scrum, Agile and DevOps
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to manage stakeholder relations, and work with cross-departmental teams
• Excellent team player by working with cross-departmental business & IT stakeholders, ability to manage conflicts.
• Highly motivated and committed, capable of working in a dynamic environment with aggressive timelines, multiple work streams running in parallel.
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner

Degrees or certifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in a field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
• FRM/CFA designation are an asset

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