Manager - Lead Business Analyst

The client is in the process of leadinga Digital Transformation across our Americas Division as we continue to modernize our technology, focus on our data-driven approach, grow, and plan. As a result of this expansion, we are seeking experienced Business Analyst in New York (N.Y) or Jersey City (N.J)  or Charlotte (N.C) with 10+ years of experience primarily in financial market data or reference data to support the design and development of a strategic data platform for client Capital Markets and Securities Group. 

Role Objectives

• This role will be part of the Data Strategy team spanning across the client Capital Markets and securities teams, client Americas Division’s broker-dealer and swap-dealer entities.
• Business and Data analysis for strategic data projects and enhancements across financial products.
• Lead new projects from inceptionthrough go live, managing the project lifecycle across authoring project initiation documents, business requirements documents, status reports, leading front to back UAT across users and developers.
• Collaborate with senior management, delivery leads on the creation of the solution roadmap and providing timelystatus of deliverables related to roadmap execution.
• Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with business and technology stakeholders.
• Facilitate daily/weekly developer scrums, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support agile activities, including user story creation, acceptance criteria definition, product backlog grooming, and identifyingkey dependencies and risks.
• Document QA test plans and execute test cases. Liaise with business users to create test plans, manage testing, and track defects, enhancements, and questions.
• Participate in general BA work including production support and BAU enhancements of in-house business applications.
• Write user documentation and conduct training sessions on new functionality as needed.
• Assistwith production implementation & coordinate user validation across impacted Control Functions
• Participate in general BA work including production support and BAU enhancements of in-house business applications.  

Qualifications and Skills 

•  10+ years of experience in Capital Markets as a Project Manager or Business Analyst with experience in system implementations or equivalent operational experience on central datamartslike Security Master or Pricing Master. 
• Good understanding of the financial terminology and various securities and asset classes
• Experience with data projects involving concepts and processes related to data management, such as critical data elements, data architecture, data models, data lineage, data quality, data dictionary etc. 
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively and confidently with users,team members.
• Strong work ethic with focus on meeting deadlines, objectives, and ability to learn new products and systems in a timely manner.
• Experience working directly within Technology.
• Experience with stakeholder management.
• Ability to prioritize efforts across multiple projects and manage competing deadlines with stakeholders.
• Strong skills working with MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, MS Power Point & SharePoint.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance or MBA or Computer Science or Information Systems preferred.