Business System Analyst

Skills

10+ years of IT experience as a Senior Business Systems Analyst. Familiarity with diverse technologies and platforms Familiarity with Agile techniques and tools - Scrum Kanban Jira etc. Solid experience in writing SQL queries – comfortable with unions inner and outer joins. Basic excel manipulations pivot lookup if/elseif substring manipulations etc. Work with multiple Collaborators to assemble functional requirements. When applicable create documents for customers and/or provides information for others to document. Familiarity with securities processing a plus. Familiarity with Z/OS a plus.

Description

The Senior Business Systems Analyst role specializes in acting as the main interface between Technology and Clearance and Settlement business / product areas, identifying, documenting and analyzing business requirements, crafting functional specifications for the project’s development teams.

We are looking for an experienced, energetic and technology minded Business Systems Analyst to join our team, with primary responsibilities:

Produce functional specifications by analyzing business requirements, constructing workflow charts and diagrams.
Lead workflow design and contribute to user experience design, where applicable
Collaborate with project team, product management, and collaborators on assigned aspects of the project.
Review estimates of resource needs and schedule of work with related collaborators.
Provide mentorship to junior team members by elaborating the necessary details required through all phases of projects.
Participate in creating system documentation under company-specific best practices and standards.
Recommend controls by identifying gaps and proposing opportunities for automation of processes.
Align risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk.

Responsibilities

• Clear communicator, with good verbal and written communication skills
• Detail oriented.
• Ability to prioritize and focus on most urgent tasks & work in a fast-paced IT environment.
• Not afraid to ask many questions, push back, or raise attention to risks or issues.
• A flexible, and proactive approach to track down resources to gather appropriate information.
• Comfortable working closely with team management to review approaches and requirements that solve the business problem.