Business Analyst - 155899
Considered a global leader in socially responsible investing, our client is looking for a Business Analyst. If you have a background in Investments and business Domain (Equities, Fixed Income, Mortgages, Real Estate, and Credit Derivatives) and want to be a part of A Fortune 100 financial services company that serves 3.6 million active and retired employees and has $363 billion in combined assets under management, look no further!
Job Purpose/ Description:
Investments Domain (Equities, Fixed Income, Mortgages, Real Estate, and Credit Derivatives)
• Analyzes with strong investments business domain knowledge in the brokerage or investment banking industry, specifically in equities, fixed income, mortgages, real estate, and credit derivatives, involving front-office / trading, middle-office support and operations, as well as portfolio management and research functions.
Insurance, Pension & Annuity Domain
• Analyzes with strong pension and annuity product / business domain knowledge, including Life Insurance, Universal Life, After-Tax Annuities, and Retirement Plans, e.g., SRA, IRA, Keoghs, 401k, 403b.
Trust Services, Educational Savings (529) Domain
• Analyzes with strong trust services and educational savings knowledge, e.g., 529 College Savings Plans, Mutual Funds, and brokerage business domain information
Corporate Support Domain (HR, Law, FAF, Accounting)
• Analyzes with strong corporate support domain knowledge of one or more functions, including Human Resources, Law, Compliance, Finance, and Accounting.
Marketing
• Analyzes requirements for campaign execution and tracking, as well as channel integration and analytics, e.g., CRM.
• Excellent ability to work with business owners and AD teams to support applications that comprise components from different vendors; develops RFIs, RFPs, and business cases; monitors SLAs and Disaster Recovery requirements / testing with vendors.
• Excels at designing GUIs into visually compelling layouts with fluid navigation; adheres to enterprise GUI standards and extends to business application GUI requirements; may design screens / layouts for portal, web or rich client interfaces; adept at working with GUI design / tools, e.g., Photoshop, Dreamweaver or other comparable HTML editors, as well as Illustrator, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Negotiates deliverables from initial requirements to final implementation by leading communication between business units and IT.
• Recommends buy vs. build decisions, as well as the development of new code vs. the reuse of existing code.
• Participates in component and data architecture design, performance monitoring, and product evaluations.
• Evaluates and implements new initiatives on process improvement and technology initiatives.
• Serves as initial point of escalation for all processing and operational issues.
• Assists management in coordinating business area activities and balancing workload.
• Analyzes complex performance and capacity issues with
systems / applications software
and / or system components.
• May design, implement and improve workflows, as well as assign projects.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
• Completely adept at understanding and executing the details across multiple operations functions within the end-to-end flow of operations.
• Displays problem solving and analytical skills, using them to resolve business problems.
• Adept at understanding operational nuances across multiple business areas.
• Excellent communication, analytical, negotiation, and leadership skills; solid technical and problem solving abilities.
• Responsible for supervising staff in the execution of projects
• May serve as back-up for manager.
• May have involvement with the business during its strategic planning and budget cycles to leverage knowledge and anticipate technology transformation potential from a customer persp