Role : Business Analyst- Transaction Reporting
Location : New Jersy
Full Time
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
- At least 4 years of experience with Information Technology.
- Experience in Trade & Transaction Reporting.
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least 4 years of experience of working as a BA for large, complex systems.
- Experience working in agile methodology is required.
- Experience working on JIRA tools for requirement gathering and tech analysis details
- Strong understanding and working knowledge in Financial Derivative Products covering both ETD and OTC derivative is a must
- Experience with Python / OOP programming language is highly desirable to perform day to day data analysis work at code level
- Techno-functional BA, experience working on regulatory projects, preferably in Transaction Reporting space, e.g. CFTC/Dodd Frank/SEC/CSA, ESMA/EMIR, MIFID
- Prior work experience in big banks in Transaction Reporting space is a plus
- Great analytical skills and ability to deep dive into complex details and resolve issues.
- Excellent written & oral communication skills.
- Experience of working with AGILE methodology of software development.
- Ability to prioritize, adjust, and push for completion of multiple tasks in a fast-paced organization.
- Ability to problem solve, apply reason, take initiative, use judgment, and perform multiple concurrent tasks
Responsibilities:
- Liaise with business partners, project, and program stakeholders to analyze & refine the regulatory requirements given by Federal authorities & DTCC and then prepare detailed BRD (Business Requirement Document), FRD (Functional Requirement) for various technology teams (FO/MO SOR IT, Reference Data IT etc..).
- Translate and simplify the Business /Functional requirements into technical requirements and create user stories for the Development team to understand and implement the code.
- Performs gap and feasibility analysis, recommend alternative solutions, project strategy, and deliverable prioritization.
- Prepare the detailed use cases, functional scenarios, and Spec by examples.
- Work closely with Developers and Operations to answer all questions & queries about the regulatory requirements.
- Identify the gaps in software system from regulatory perspective and raise requirements to product owners.
- Provide support to product owner team to help guide the tech impact, story points, prioritizing, planning for all requirements.
- Work closely with SIT / QA team to help support BDD and functional testing as when required, review feature files with developers written as part of Dev acceptance testing covering functional acceptance criteria and edge cases.
- Provide support to UAT team for end-to-end testing by providing sample test cases, use cases, actual vs expected behavior etc. Work with them to develop user acceptance tests, and log and track status of defects.
