Business Analyst - AFS Vision (Finance/Banking)

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: 100% Remote

Duration: Long Term (Extendable)

Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years experience with AFS in an operational, business analyst, or tech support capacity.
• Cobol and SQL expertise a plus.
• Experienced in conversion validation and reconciliation processes including data and financial validations.
• Experience with ACBS to AFS conversions including mapping and extract, transform, load process.

JOB DESCRIPTION

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The person in this role will serve as a business analyst in our AFS Vision conversion squad leading discovery work, writing user stories, validating test cases, and performing other functions as necessary to enable successful conversions from our legacy systems to AFS Vision. Skills required for this role include:
• Experience mapping data between legacy systems and AFS Vsion.
• Strong understanding of the AFS data model including currents, futures, obligations, and process types.
• Familiarity with AFS Vision conversion extract, transform, and load processes.
• Experienced in validating conversions including data and financial validations.
• Ability to work independently, meet with line of business and ask questions to gain an understanding of their requirements. Critical thinking skills would then take those requirements and break them down into the lowest level what so that functional design can be completed.
• Ability to collaborate with team members that are more technical and communicate those requirements in a way that allows the tech team members to understand them and determine the proper technical design.
• Ability to create clear and complete Test Acceptance criteria and execute the testing to ensure accurate output during Unit and UAT.
• Capable of creating and executing SQL scripts for ETL/data testing.
• Conduct research and Development based on current trends and technologies related to the banking industry, data engineering and architecture, data security, and related topics.
• Provide Support and troubleshooting for data platforms.
• Plan and work on internal projects as needed, including legacy system replacement, Monitoring and analytics improvements, tool Development, and technical documentation.
• Provide guidance and mentoring for other team members.
• Manage and prioritize multiple assignments.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS/Experience

• Financial Crimes/Financial Industry knowledge
• SQL
• Analytical
• Strong Communications Skills
• Able to run meetings
• Problem Solving and Critical Thinking

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in business/technology or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong communication skills- Must be able to communicate ideas both verbally and in writing to management, business and IT sponsors, and technical resources in language that is appropriate for each group.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills when resolving data related issues or designing new solutions

Technical skills SQL

• Experienced in SDLC and can assist in Project Management. Able to understand release management protocols and manage important tasks for implementation.