Business / Application Analyst

Description

Investments Domain (Equities, Fixed Income, Mortgages, Real Estate, and Credit Derivatives)Analyzes with strong investments business domain knowledge in the brokerage or investment banking industry, specifically in equities, fixed income, mortgages, real estate, and credit derivatives, involving frontoffice / trading, middleoffice support and operations, as well as portfolio management and research functions.Insurance, Pension & Annuity DomainAnalyzes with strong pension and annuity product / business domain knowledge, including Life Insurance, Universal Life, AfterTax Annuities, and Retirement Plans, e.g., SRA, IRA, Keoghs, 401k, 403b.Trust Services, Educational Savings (529) DomainAnalyzes with strong trust services and educational savings knowledge, e.g., 529 College Savings Plans, Mutual Funds, and brokerage business domain informationCorporate Support Domain (HR, Law, FAF, Accounting)Analyzes with strong corporate support domain knowledge of one or more functions, including Human Resources, Law, Compliance, Finance, and Accounting. MarketingAnalyzes requirements for campaign execution and tracking, as well as channel integration and analytics, e.g., CRM.Excellent ability to work with business owners and AD teams to support applications that comprise components from different vendors; develops RFIs, RFPs, and business cases; monitors SLAs and Disaster Recovery requirements / testing with vendors.Excels at designing GUIs into visually compelling layouts with fluid navigation; adheres to enterprise GUI standards and extends to business application GUI requirements; may design screens / layouts for portal, web or rich client interfaces; adept at working with GUI design / tools, e.g., Photoshop, Dreamweaver or other comparable HTML editors, as well as Illustrator, PowerPoint, and Excel.Negotiates deliverables from initial requirements to final implementation by leading communication between business units and IT.Recommends buy vs. build decisions, as well as the development of new code vs. the reuse of existing code.Participates in component and data architecture design, performance monitoring, and product evaluations.Evaluates and implements new initiatives on process improvement and technology initiatives.Serves as initial point of escalation for all processing and operational issues.Assists management in coordinating business area activities and balancing workload.Analyzes complex performance and capacity issues with systems / applications software and / or system components.May design, implement and improve workflows, as well as assign projects. Tasks and Responsibilities Completely adept at understanding and executing the details across multiple operations functions within the endtoend flow of operations.Displays problem solving and analytical skills, using them to resolve business problems.Adept at understanding operational nuances across multiple business areas.Excellent communication, analytical, negotiation, and leadership skills; solid technical and problem solving abilities.May serve as backup for project manager.May have involvement with the business during its strategic planning and budget cycles to leverage knowledge and anticipate technology transformation potential from a customer perspective; provides buy vs. build recommendations; assists in platform determination.Document business and functional requirements, support integration testing. Required education/experience Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Information Systems,Business or other related field.5 plus years of IT work experience in Application / business analysisExcellent working knowledge of systems / applications software and the Information Technology industry; understands their role in supporting/writing business requirements / technical solutions. Serves as point of escalation for complex issues.Familiarity wiht Web Development.