Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business users and internal clients and stakeholders to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into requirements.
• Define the requirements and solution design that addresses the business problemand track solution throughout the delivery process.
• In collaboration with Calypso and other internal bank teams (ex: Cyber security, Architecture etc), ensure the solution adheres to internal standards and patterns.
• In collaboration with internal and external stakeholders (ex: Nasdaq), create and maintain a road map of functional and technical features.
• Manage the Jira backlog for projects, ensuring it is organized, prioritized and broken down appropriately into stories, epics and tasks.
• Lead/Facilitate Scrum meetings and product sprints.
• Continuously prioritize and refine the backlog based on changing requirements.
• Ensure the backlog is transparent, understood and visible.
• Ensure the development teams stay on task and work to agreed-upon priorities.
• Assist the development team in making priority decisions when conflicts arise.
• Work with the QA resources to ensure changes are tested appropriately and comprehensively.
• Participate in user acceptance testing and recommend improvements.

• Assist the Pod’s Program Managers, Scrum Masters in end-to-end activities related to implementation including project management, issue management, communication, and change management.
• Track requirements from elicitation to implementation, including design and development.
• Monitor and evaluate progress at each stage of delivery.
• Work with the Dev team and end-users to deliver updates and status reports.
• Provide demos and progress updates to the business users throughout the delivery process.
• Proactively identify and manage risks.

Qualifications

·         5+ years of experience as a product owner, business analyst, and/or project manager.

·         Verifiable experience as a liaison between customers and technical delivery teams.

·         5+ years of experience working in support of trading businesses.

·         Experience defining customer experience and user journey.

·         Experience completing complex technical projects.

·         Knowledge and familiarity with industry standard vendor tools such as Jira, Confluence etc.

Expected Skills / Aptitudes

·         Solid understanding of trading operations, finance, market data and banking processes.

·         Proficiency with Excel, Visio, PowerBI and Tableau and other standard tools & utilities.

·         Strong communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and collaboration

·         Ability to guide development resources through the requirements

·         Ability to write Jira user stories, including acceptance criteria

·         Ability to identify areas of improvement

·         Familiarity with agile and waterfall project management tools; Jira, Confluence, MS Project

·         Ability to analyze data and interpret trends.  Data mapping, data lineage, data governance.

·         High level of accountability

·         Outcome focused self-starter

·         Project management, planning and team organization

·         High level of analytical thinking and problem solving

·         Excellent communication skills