Our client, a leading financial services company is hiring a Senior Business Analyst on a long-term contract basis.
Job ID 82698
Work Location:
Tampa, FL
Summary:
The Senior Business Analyst is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required to guide, influence, and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family. Lead Business Analyst is a senior-level position responsible for liaising between business users and technologists to exchange information in a concise, logical, and understandable way in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to continuous iterative exploration and investigation of business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.
Responsibilities:
- Hands on experience in converting business strategies to projects / products right from design to postproduction support and target operating model definition for Global financial institutions
- Responsible for supporting the management of front to back reconciliation, identifying operational risk, trade confirmation and settlement forecasts.
- Investment Banking Domain expert including hands on experience on Reconciliations development (Smartstream TLM / Other recon tools) & in-depth knowledge in at least one asset class
- Hands on experience in Regulatory Project management & Business Analysis in large scale financial organizations including budget, resource management and estimations
- Excellent communication, negotiation, presentation skills with hands on experience in Senior stakeholder management, Project governance, RAID management and reporting
- Experience in managing Machine Learning, RPA, APIs, Microservices architecture-based application development & Implementation including infrastructure estimations
- Develop creative technical solutions to meet business needs and manage complex, high volume applications in partnership with business partners and stakeholders
- Manage multiple work stream and applications across geographies for Credit Initiation and Onboarding
- Contribute to formulation of strategies/processes for Product Road map, Development and Governance and contribute to defining standards and new automation initiatives
- Develop communication to guide, influence and convince others, including colleagues in other areas and external customers
- Provide advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business and filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex material from multiple sources
- Supervise day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management, work allocation, mentoring of onsite and offsite resources and other duties and functions as assigned
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm’s reputation and safeguarding the business, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Required Skills:
- 10-14+ years of experience in business analysis or systems analysis
- Demonstrated expertise in presenting and using planning tools
- Proven diplomatic and analytical skills
- Proven ability to manage complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact by weighing various action plans and balancing potentially conflicting needs
- Mandatory :
- TLM Recon tool experience
- Basic SQL/UNIX knowledge
- Expertise in excel
- Develops partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
Pay: $46-$58 per hour.