Business Analyst

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Understand clients' business processes.
• Responsible for managing multi-level relationships with clients.
• Provide or manage ongoing support for existing applications; prioritize new issues and working with the customers to determine the best use of IT resources in order to best address their business needs.
• Work together with a team of Business Analysts and other IT groups, either on-site or remotely, under the direction of your Project Manager.
• Act as the representative and be the clients' "single contact."
• Formally documenting prioritized solution requirements that are aligned with technical and business feasibility. Plan and execute acceptance testing.
• Provide consultation to clients and lead cross-functional linked teams to address business or systems issues.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in Business Analysis.
• BA/BSc degree in computer science or related business qualification, or equivalent business/technical experience preferred.
• Minimum 1 year of demonstrated work experience in the IT industry.
• Candidates with at least 2 years of specific business experience and/or related experience in Capital Markets and/or Basel II will be advantageous.
• Experience in end-user support, including the prioritization and rationalization of new support issues, business requirements analysis, functional unit testing, and facilitating user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Must have superior written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, analytical and project management skills.
• Must possess a solid understanding of information technology and have the ability to conceptually relate technology to a business' needs.
• Competence in data modeling, facilitation, rapid applications development, or process re-engineering is a plus.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
• Has experience with large-scale projects, ongoing production support, and software in banking/financial applications.