The Business Analyst plays a crucial role in defining, managing, and implementing organizational changes. They are responsible for gathering, analyzing, refining, validating, and formally documenting business requirements to ensure that the most effective solution is identified and executed.
Key Responsibilities
Gathers requirements from stakeholders using effective elicitation methods, standards, and tools.
Analyzes and validates requirements with a systematic, disciplined, and analytical approach to problem-solving.
Conducts impact assessments to identify current and future processes, systems, and structures.
Maintains stakeholder relationships and obtains formal approval for all requirement documentation.
Facilitates workshop sessions with internal and external stakeholders to ensure they understand requirements, explore solution options and assists in completing solution design documents.
Supports functional and integration testing.
Aids in Change Management activities by providing necessary information to facilitate effective communication.
Supports project teams during implementation phases by addressing queries, troubleshooting issues, liaising with service providers, and providing regular updates.
Contributes to project management processes, including status reporting, risk management, issue tracking, change management, and compliance oversight.
Performs data analysis to clean, standardize, and ensure the consistency and quality of data.
Key Qualifications
5-7 years of experience as a Business Analyst preferably within financial services.
Possesses strong interpersonal skills and can communicate effectively and proactively with both external and internal stakeholders.
Proficient in established Project Management methodologies and frameworks.
Self-motivated, driven, and able to work independently.
Attentive to detail and adept at handling ambiguity.
Experienced with major asset classes and their associated analytics.
Good understanding of Middle Office and Back Office.
Skilled in business analysis techniques such as flow charting, requirements gathering, stakeholder analysis, use cases, brainstorming, solution prototyping, and traceability.