Business Analyst

Job Description:
Business Systems Analysts will research and determine the clients needs to determine which features to include on products and will pitch ideas for product features to stakeholders. Product Owners will then continue to act as the primary contact between the scrum teams, product development departments and stakeholders. They ll collaborate closely with both the scrum and product development departments to ensure the products meet specific objectives as outlined by stakeholders and clients. They will oversee the analysis and development of a company s business Duties include analyzing requirements, estimating the cost, and establishing system protocols

Job responsibilities:
Implement advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data requirements
Master strategic business process modeling, traceability and quality management techniques
Estimate work effort and assist the Project Manager/Scrum Master with task planning
Lead cross functional business and technical teams to deliver the selected solution
Assess business process and system inefficiencies.
Identify ways to increase adoption and customer satisfaction
Recommend and institute BA best practice and methodology and tools
Take a leading role in the Analysis and the coordination of the developments
Take part in the team Agile / SCRUM development process, actively participate to SCRUM ceremonies, guide developers in the daily tasks
Evaluate the impact of new developments on the application and its data model and contribute to the functional design of the application as well as working closely with the technical team to ensure a clear understanding of those requirements
Creating detailed functional design documentation for the software solution to be developed
Create and maintain relevant tests cases based on the specifications made and ensure the developed software meets the expected acceptance criteria
Contribute to estimating development efforts and impact analysis
Create or enhance functional test data and expected results to test new developments
Define test scenarios, perform non-regression analysis, analyze test results to validate new functionalities in close collaboration with the other team members to ensure the application is correct from a functional (accounting, banking) perspective
Participate to product second line support, including analysis of customer cases, provide resolution recommendations and contribute to implementation
Following up regulator publications to detect changes / updates required for our applications
Quickly become the SME for business units so as to be able to troubleshoot issues, understand the impact of proposed system changes and document accurate requirements and specifications.
Produce high quality Business Requirements Documents that define project objectives resulting from business and process analysis
Ability to thoroughly document business processes in a manner that captures functions, roles, systems and workflows that enables others to understand the business processes, identify process breakdowns and opportunities for improvement
Produce training plans and/or Knowledge Base documents and materials that will enable users and/or support resources to become proficient process contributors.
Map as-is and to-be processes so as to identify breakdowns and opportunities for improvement.
Navigate through schema to troubleshoot issues and document data mapping for reports and interfaces

Required Qualifications:
Should have minimum 5+ years of experience in software development environment with emphasis on Business process
Strong knowledge in Financial services/Wealth Management domain
Ability to work in fast-paced, dynamic environment
Work directly with clients/Business to understand the individual needs of the business
Ability to influence others to achieve results
Experience in creating Process Maps, UML Behavior Diagrams, Business technology translation/mapping documentation
Strong knowledge of business information data sources, business data rules and business processes.
Experience with relational databases and/or SQL, Oracle
Experience with working in APIs, ability to understand/create service contracts
Good understanding of how relational databases work and interested to become proficient in SQL
Logical proficiency
Proven experience with IT and Software development
Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
High self motivated with willingness to learn new things and grow within the team
Proven ability to gather, develop, document, and maintain clear business requirements, operational policies and procedures, including the designing and documenting detailed process flows, and the development of operational performance and quality metric standards and reports.
Excellent presentation and facilitation skills.
Excellent understanding of system development life cycle and system architecture principles.
Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to communicate ideas effectively to the business community.

Preferred qualifications:
Proficient in Microsoft suite of tools including Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint, MSWord and Excel.
Proficiency in any data analytics/visualization tools to perform variety of data analysis to discover the most impactful insights
Proficient in JIRA or similar work management tool.
Experience with Scrum process and ceremonies.