Job Title: Business Analyst
Need Business Analyst with equities and derivatives or brokerage STAMFORD CT 6 months Need inperson after telephonic Scope and Purpose: Equity Derivative IT is responsible for the delivery and maintenance of technology solutions to the Equity Derivatives Trading business. The business has enjoys strong revenues through organic growth; further opportunities exist based on expansion of client activity, investment in IT architecture and RBS integration. In order to improve identification and delivery of technology requirements, a Change Management function is being formed within Equity Derivatives IT, made up of project managers and business analysts. This small team will take on full project ownership (from initiation to completion) for all primarily-IT initiatives and contribute business analysis (requirements definition, design, testing, training and implementation support). This will include a number of strategic projects demanding business transformation, covering all regions and trading applications, as well as smaller-scale incremental change. The requirements of each project will determine the assignment of people, with the group therefore needing a range of the following: * Project management versus business analysis skills. * Deep equity derivatives -specific knowledge versus broad understanding of products and asset classes. * Business versus technical attitude, knowledge and experience. Organisationally, there will not be a strict demarcation of roles between project managers and business analysts; it is a requirement that project managers have business analysis skills and vice versa. However, it is recognised that each candidate's primary skill likely lies with one or the other, and for this reason the two roles have been assigned separate specifications. Main responsibilities and deliverables: Requirements definition * Current state, gap analysis and future state definition (IT applications, interfaces, data, etc; business process and people and organisational considerations). * Business requirements gathering, validation and enrichment and agreement. * Functional requirements definition and agreement. Solution design * Working with IT development team(s) to agree high level design and iterate functional and business requirements. * Prototyping as required and delivery of interim, tactical IT solutions. Testing * Definition of testing strategy, scripts, automated testing requirements. * System testing support. * Execution of testing and support for user acceptance testing. * Regression testing. Operational readiness * Training. * Business process definition. * Data clean up (including reference data). Implementation * Implementation planning. * Execution of post-implementation checks. * Post-implementation user and IT support. Secondary responsibility - project management * Project definition. * Co-ordination of project contributors, including trading staff, IT development team(s), operations, risk management, finance. * Project working group management and IT Steering Committee reporting. * Progress and cost tracking and reporting. * Risk and issue identification and resolution or escalation. Primary relationships: Equity Derivative change managers. Equity Derivative developers. Regional / product-owning trading heads and traders. Equity Derivative business development managers. Operations, finance, risk management teams. Qualifications, knowledge and experience: Broad knowledge of traded products and asset classes, with clear understanding of trading, risk management, financial, operational and regulatory considerations. Detailed understanding of equity derivative products required, preferably including: * Listed Bonds * ETFs. * Listed Options * Equity Linked Notes. * Convertible Bonds Experience of defining appropriate business and functional requirements, achieving meaningful agreement and iterating through the process of solution design. Understanding of project management processes and practice. Experience of software delivery (in-house, with some third parties, both internal and external vendors; experience of agile software development practices preferred). Experience of tactical IT delivery. Experience of testing planning, performance and co-ordination and support. Competencies: Technical understanding and skills to a level sufficient to enable engagement in software design. Motivated self starter, able to proactively manage change: drive tasks and issues to resolution; identify risks and manage or escalate accordingly; go beyond stated requirements to add value. Good interpersonal skills, able to work with trading and technical staff from junior to business-leading senior levels. Good communication skills (written and verbal). Free thinking individual demonstrating leadership and innovation, allied to a rigorous approach Rita Kanna Business Development Manager EGEN SOLUTIONS INC Innovation, High performance, Results PH: (630)-270-2642 E-mail id: [email protected] GTALK or Yahoo : ritakanna Linkedin:www.linkedin.com/in/ritakanna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open Source J2EE frameworks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-source-j2ee-frameworks?hl=en.
