Business analyst

Our Customer is one of the world's largest investment management companies. Based in Southern California, our client manages close to $2 trillion in assets and is looking for a new partner to participate in a full-scale upgrade of their technology. We are looking for talented and ambitious people to work on the new engagement in the client's offices near Los Angeles, California.

Responsibilities

Business, functional and non-functional requirements gathering, elicitation, and documentation

Convert business and functional requirements into project planning artifacts

Epics, Stories, Tasks; form product development backlog

Work closely with the IT Team to review requirements and support development process

Translate assumptions, technical design and limitations, and risks into business terms and negotiate their impact with the stakeholders

Lead planning and backlog refinement sessions

Prepare and review artifacts for the demo sessions, drive the demo preparations

Manage requirements changes to ensure a full understanding of the impact on scope, schedule, quality, and risks by all stakeholders

Ensure all requirements are correctly represented in JIRA, Confluence, and other collaboration tools

Cooperate closely with the onsite team on project preliminary analysis and high-level estimation

Mediate requirements clarification between business stakeholders and the project team

Collaborate with other analysts to detect overlapping parts and achieve synergy out of projects implemented jointly by multiple teams

Suggest process improvements related to teamwork planning, tracking, and ensuring the deliverable quality in close cooperation with Project and Delivery Managers

Skills

Must have

Product Management;

Business Analysis;

Elicitation and documentation of functional and non-functional requirements;

Confident working knowledge of Equity Portfolio Management;

Advanced data analytics and SQL skills such as:

ability to independently traverse a data model and infer data and relationships without constant guidance.

ability to confidently craft data SQL for production support and requirements analysis.

Upon getting a basic review has to be able to explore and reverse engineer understanding of the platform's capabilities and attributes.

Understanding of technologies involved and their impact on business needs and project timeline

Be able to navigate the organization to discover and negotiate data integration requirements and impact analysis.

Thought leaders capable of deeper insight determining opportunities for improvement and assessing risk. Assisting management with prioritization, escalation, and simplifying concepts that have layered complexity.

Strong and confident communication skills.

Nice to have

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Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior