Business Analyst

103; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Business Analyst with Capital Market Experience or Banking is sought to partner with QTS application teams migrating to Aperture. You will gather requirements, document business use cases, perform feasibility analyses, and create cross-functional diagrams.

You will coordinate with platform engineering to define data needs, validate requirements with senior stakeholders, and support planning, reviews, and UAT to ensure successful delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong business domain knowledge of Financial Services/ Capital Markets.
• Ability to work independently and manage deadlines while multi-tasking.
• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst on large, complex projects.
• Experience with Waterfall, Iterative, and/or Agile project delivery.
• Experience in requirements planning and prioritization including stakeholder analysis and effort estimation, with data analysis expertise.

Responsibilities

• Engage with QTS teams moving onto the Aperture platform to understand analytical use-cases and confirm product fit.
• Lead information gathering sessions and document requirements, business use cases, feasibility analyses, and diagrams as needed.
• Partner with platform engineering to understand data requirements, dependencies, and integration points.
• Validate requirements with senior stakeholders via reviews and walkthroughs; ensure specifications meet expectations.

Skills

Financial Services Domain Knowledge

Data analysis

Independent working

5+ years BA experience

Project delivery methods

Education

Masters Certificate in Business Analysis

CBAP / CCBA / PMI-PBA Certification

Agile Certification (CSM/CSPO)

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Python

Job description

Benefits:

• Employee discounts
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Role

Business Analyst with Capital Market Experience or Banking

Job Description:

Requirement Analysis and Documentation

• Engage and partner with QTS application teams moving onto the Aperture platform to understand their analytical use-cases/ business goals and confirm product fit
• Facilitate information gathering sessions including leading discussions, managing group dynamics, and maintaining group focus, to work towards accomplishing the stated goal(s) of the session within the context of the project objectives - From these information sessions, gathers the requirements and documents them, along with business use cases, feasibility analysis and cross functional diagrams as needed
• Partner with the platform engineering teams to ensure technical capabilities and data requirements are well understood, identify dependencies and integration points
• Work with senior stakeholders to validate their requirements and analysis via techniques such as reviews and walkthroughs and ensure system specifications meet the business stakeholders’ expectations/requirements, and negotiate solutions when appropriate

Communication and Planning

• Participate in reviews or inspections, in collaboration with the project team, to ensure the quality of the deliverables
• Participate in the user acceptance testing, implementation planning and post implementation validations.

Must Have:

• Strong business domain understanding of Financial Services/ Capital Markets, excellent data analysis and solid background dealing with complex software products (preferably cloud/ data analytics focused)
• Ability to work independently, apply critical and strategic thinking to issues, and manage deadlines while multi-tasking amongst different priorities.
• 5+ years of experience working as a Business Analyst with progressively increasing responsibilities in the areas of requirements management on large and complex projects
• Proven experience with various project delivery methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative and/or Agile
• Experience in requirements planning and prioritization including stakeholder analysis and effort estimation including Data analysis expertise (e.g., using SQL, Tableau, or Python)

Nice to Have:

• Masters Certificate in Business Analysis
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA), or Project Management Institute –Professional in Business Analysis (PMI – PBA) Certification (Preferred)
• Agile Certification (CSM, CSPO) or similar
• Experience of working with Capital Markets division of a multi-national bank or a Consulting firm focusing on similar clients