*Position: Senior Business Analyst (Must Be local and investment experience needed )Location: Chicago ILDuration: 6+Months of contract*
*///Must be local to IL and Candidate should do F2F after Telephonic///* *PLEASE NOTE: *Candidates must have recent and advanced Investment Industry experience. Portfolio Management - trading, asset management, fixed income, bonds, trusts, securities, derivatives, etc. Banking experience does NOT qualify. *Background:* The Front Office IT team is responsible for the implementation of strategic and tactical portfolio management and trading solutions across the Front Office. As well as performing business analysis, the Senior BA must build strong relationships with the QA testers, Developers, Product Owner and end-users to ensure that the requirements properly meet the demands of the portfolio managers, traders and other business users. *Technical and Professional Qualifications:*Ideally IMC, or other qualifications or courses demonstrating an interest in the business Demonstrated history of learning, particularly in the front office environment. For example, conferences or specific training courses relating to front office. *Experience and Background:*Must have worked in a fund management company as a business analyst supporting front office functions Demonstrated ability to understand and develop a 3-year direction for a functional area Demonstrated ability to estimate the time taken to carry out analysis tasks, and meet the time estimated Demonstrated ability to develop excellent business cases, and requirements documents Demonstrated ability to develop and execute test plans Demonstrated ability to engage in multiple initiative simultaneously Demonstrated ability to work independently with users to define concepts or under the direction of project managers Must be able to demonstrate a collaborative approach with developers and subject matter experts to establish the approach to projects, and ensure good communication of requirements *Competence and Characteristics:*Communication: Must be able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts. Challenging: Must be able to demonstrate the ability to drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully implement plans Attention to Detail: Must be able to demonstrate the ability to drill into analysis, using interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, scenarios, workflow analysis, in order to ensure a thorough understanding of the problem and proposed solution Analysis: Must be able to demonstrate critical evaluation of information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests for the underlying true needs Leadership: Must be able to demonstrate the ability the confidence and influence to encourage business and technical users to show that the proposed solutions will deliver benefits. *Specialist Knowledge & Skills:*Good knowledge of front office functions for an Institutional Fund Management company Good knowledge of LGIM products (or such products in a similar organisation) specifically Liability Driven Investments. Good knowledge of complex OTC instruments. Experience in using Sophis Value or Sophis Risque or an equivalent front office portfolio management risk tool. *HARRY WILSON | * IT Technical Recruiter *CAT Technology Inc."Committed to Human Excellence Through IT"* * Hackensack, NJ 07601* Voice : 201 257 5081 Ext 167| Fax: 201-342-2385 Email: [email protected] ,*[email protected] <[email protected]>* Visit us at: www.catamerica.com | www.cattechnologies.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "US_IT.Groups" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/us_itgroups. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
