About This Role
This Business Systems Analyst role on the Collateral team involves architecting, designing, and managing software projects critical to clients' real-time transaction processing needs. The position suits an experienced professional with a financial services background who can quickly adapt to the environment and deliver time-sensitive projects for a leading investment manager.
Responsibilities
- Manage projects on a monthly software release cycle with minimal supervision
- Gather business requirements by effectively coordinating activities between business users, developers, and managers
- Develop use cases, functional specifications, and test cases
- Ensure test coverage and complete documentation for each software release
- Meet with client senior managers, present business solutions, and set up/optimize business processes
- Handle release weekend support and production support
Requirements
- Strong understanding of SDLC process and project methodologies (Waterfall/Agile)
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to independently perform data analysis, derive field mappings and transformations, and design business solutions in software
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously across different teams
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to coordinate with team members and stakeholders in multiple locations
- Aptitude for learning new things and flexibility to adapt and follow guidelines
- 7+ years of experience in the Capital Markets domain, with an Asset Management or Investment Banking organization, is strongly preferred
- Hands-on knowledge of relational databases/SQL (Sybase preferred)
- Understanding of post-trade processing and the trade life cycle for various financial instruments, including: fixed income, equity, foreign exchange, derivatives, and financing trades (repurchase agreements)
- Experience testing software designed for elaborate business scenarios
- Experience with multiple testing approaches: functional, regressions, integration, and user testing
- Experience with production support / issue triage
- Exposure to Unix is a must
Nice to have:
- Basic understanding of the margin collateral process
- Experience with Jira, Agile boards
- Understanding of XML, including creating XSD
