Job Description
Job Description
Job Description:
We are looking for a highly driven Business Analyst with strong Capital Markets expertise to join our growing team. In this role, you’ll play a pivotal part in analyzing, documenting, and validating business and functional requirements, while supporting system integration and user acceptance testing phases. The successful candidate will demonstrate a proven track record in financial services or capital markets, showcase advanced analytical thinking, and excel in cross-functional collaboration with business and technology stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Actively engage with business stakeholders to capture, document, and validate requirements comprehensively.
- Create alignment among stakeholders by illustrating proposed solutions through wireframes, workflows, and prototypes.
- Develop and maintain meticulous business cases, requirement documents, user stories, and operational workflows.
- Produce well-structured process and workflow diagrams utilizing industry-standard tools.
- Coordinate and lead the design and execution of test strategies, ensuring comprehensive requirement coverage during SIT and UAT phases.
- Analyze feasibility and alignment of business requirements with new or existing technical solutions.
- Facilitate strong collaboration with development and QA teams for optimal delivery outcomes.
- Develop and deliver relevant training materials and conduct sessions for stakeholder learning.
- Ensure robust traceability between gathered requirements and implemented features throughout the development life cycle.
- Support project change management processes, continuous improvement initiatives, and issue escalation tasks proficiently.
- Deliver professional-quality documentation and insightful presentations to both stakeholders and leadership roles.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related discipline.
- Minimum of 4+ years of professional experience in a Business Analyst role, ideally within Capital Markets or related industries.
- Expertise in Capital markets products, understanding trade lifecycles, and applying risk management principles.
- Proficient in creating functional specifications, test plans, and extensive business cases.
- Hands-on exposure to SDLC methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability in utilizing SQL for basic SELECT and data extraction tasks.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio for data presentation and documentation purposes.
- Familiarity with relational database design and techniques.
- Exceptional communication aptitude, particularly in translating intricate business processes into actionable technical requirements.
- Capability to independently manage diverse workflows and priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced setting.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in executing cloud transformation and large-scale technological advancements.
- Competence in tools like JIRA, Confluence, or Azure DevOps for task management and collaboration.
- Background in activities like data governance, establishing data lineage, or working on ETL/data warehousing initiatives in large-scale capital market solutions.