Senior Business Analyst

The platform is responsible for providing authoritative sources of securities indicative data to our clients across the organization, through implementing state of the art technologies and operational processes which promote the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of product, pricing, account and corporate action data. BA team is tasked with the enhancement to the system including integration of vendor feeds, data model enhancement and updates to existing data from vendors. This may involve analyzing multiple data sets manually or engineering automated solutions. The overall objective of this role is to understand business needs & conduct data analysis

Financial Data Modeling Capabilities
Data Analysis for complex system
Reverse engineering functional specifications from data
Work closely with End Users/Clients to understand Business Process/Industry Standards/Regulatory Mandate requirements.
Work closely with IT and Operations partners
Work with external data vendors (i.e., Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, Markit, etc) and standards organizations
Able to execute projects Independently
Conduct Systems Integrated Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Create Function Specification Documents (FSD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), and test plans

Working experience of 8 years min. as Business Analyst
Strong background in financial reference data and capital markets
Strong SQL knowledge required (able to query data, analyze and troubleshooting)
Strong Data analysis and Mapping skill
College degree, specialized training or equivalent work experience
Data Oriented with an excellent attention to detail
Experience/understanding of business process reengineering and business modeling concepts, systems development lifecycle
Strong analytical skills and writing skills, to include solid experience in writing functional and technical specifications
Must possess good communication skills with the ability to be assertive
Ability to focus on high quality work while under pressure
Experience utilizing various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Agile (JIRA etc.)
Comprehensive knowledge of the Testing Lifecycle with SIT, UAT, and Production.

Experience working with major vendor data providers (i.e., Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, Markit)
Project lead experience
Experience working closely with IT Project managers and development teams
Knowledge of MS Excel, Visio
Experience with vendor product implementation