Business Analyst
New York
Contract – Immediate Start
800-1000 per day
Our firmly established and highly respected digital transformation client specializes in the financial sector. Covering market data, trading, technology, and compliance, they are well-placed to deliver complete solutions for the largest of financial institutions. They now have an immediate need for an experienced Business Analyst to complete a minimum 12-month contract.
As an NYC based Business Analyst, you will:
- Conduct requirements management planning for medium to large-scale projects
- Lead business analysis across multiple coextensive initiatives
- Gather and record functional and non-functional data
- Facilitate and drive requirements-gathering sessions
- Collaborate with business and systems experts
- Lead analysis of business processes, procedures, data, and rules
- Negotiate and influence requirements direction
- Perform analysis and evaluation of business processes, information, and rules
- Make a determination of alternatives for optimizing business processes
- Identify solutions to business problems
- Create business process models, context diagrams, and use case models
- Facilitate process improvement and/or process mapping sessions
- Define, and update documentation tools
- Mentor junior business analysts
- Investment data knowledge: master data, pricing, valuation, holding, transaction, accounting
- Data management, data model, data mapping, and database structure
- Stakeholder management
- Financial Statement Reporting, Investment Accounting, Derivatives Accounting, Treasury
- Documentation, presentation, and communication
- SQL, informatica, ETL process
- Fixed income, equity, loan, private, and/or real estate knowledge
- Knowledge of Investment Management Systems
- Project management and planning
- Data Reporting
- Agile, Scrum, Jira, and Waterfall
- Demonstrated ability to partner with investment personnel to elicit and advance requirements
- Investment-focused projects (preferred)
- Working knowledge of investment credit or market risk (preferred)
- Broad-scope projects that have medium to long-term focus
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Attention to detail
The Certus Recruitment Group is an established and experienced specialist consultancy providing sales, marketing, and IT recruitment services to the business community throughout North America, The UK, Europe, and Australia.