Business analyst

Luxoft; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in investment management seeks a talented Business Analyst for a full-scale technology upgrade project. This role involves requirements gathering, project planning, and close collaboration with multiple teams. The successful applicant will have strong SQL and data analytics skills, alongside expertise in equity portfolio management, driving improvements in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Confident working knowledge of Equity Portfolio Management.
• Advanced data analytics and SQL skills required.
• Strong communication skills for collaboration with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document business requirements, convert them into project planning artifacts.
• Lead planning sessions and manage requirements changes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure project alignment.

Skills

Product Management

Business Analysis

Equity Portfolio Management

Advanced Data Analytics

SQL

Communication Skills

Job description

Project description

Our Customer is one of the world's largest investment management companies. Based in Southern California, our client manages close to $2 trillion in assets and is looking for a new partner to participate in a full-scale upgrade of their technology. We are looking for talented and ambitious people to work on the new engagement in the client's offices near Los Angeles, California.

Responsibilities

• Requirements gathering, elicitation, and documentation
• Convert business requirements into project planning artifacts - Epics, Stories, Tasks; form product development backlog
• Translate assumptions, technical design and limitations, and risks into business terms and negotiate their impact with the stakeholders
• Lead planning sessions
• Prepare and review artifacts for the demo sessions, drive the demo preparations
• Manage requirements changes to ensure a full understanding of the impact on scope, schedule, quality, and risks by all stakeholders
• Ensure all requirements are correctly represented in JIRA, Confluence, and other collaboration tools
• Cooperate closely with the onsite team on project preliminary analysis and high-level estimation
• Mediate requirements clarification between business stakeholders and the project team
• Collaborate with other analysts to detect overlapping parts and achieve synergy out of projects implemented jointly by multiple teams
• Suggest process improvements related to teamwork planning, tracking, and ensuring the deliverable quality in close cooperation with Project and Delivery Managers

SKILLS

Must have

• Product Management;
• Business Analysis;
• Confident working knowledge of Equity Portfolio Management;
• Advanced data analytics and SQL skills such as:- ability to independently traverse a data model and infer data and relationships without constant guidance.- ability to confidently craft data SQL for production support and requirements analysis.
• Upon getting a basic review has to be able to explore and reverse engineer understanding of the platform's capabilities and attributes.
• Be able to navigate the organization to discover and negotiate data integration requirements and impact analysis.
• Thought leaders capable of deeper insight determining opportunities for improvement and assessing risk. Assisting management with prioritization, escalation, and simplifying concepts that have layered complexity.
• Strong and confident communication skills.Will entail some direct support and collaboration with Investment Group and IO leads.

Nice to have

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