| Urgent need of Business System Analyst in Boston, MA or Wisconsin. F2F interview is MUST. 6 plus months contract. Investment industry experience required. Thanks ! | Summary: Successful candidate will play a key role in enabling our Investment Management client's technology systems consulting team to deliver effective, timely and affordable information technology solutions to complex investment decision-making and execution problems/opportunities for our client. Responsibilities: - Interacting regularly with equity traders, portfolio managers and financial analysts to understand pro-actively the technology needs of the firm's various equity investment teams and to communicate opportunities, progress, and accomplishments
- Works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, document, communicate and validate requirements
- Demonstrates outstanding flexibility, teamwork and a sense of ownership
- Works closely with Investment Systems Development team to clarify business requirements and translate business requirements to technical requirements
- Develops detailed test plans & test cases and conducts system integration & user acceptance testing to validate and certify developed solutions
- Conducts user training and promotes solution adoption
- Provides project management oversight for small & medium sized projects
- Documents clearly and concisely the information necessary to support the applications and solutions
- Participates in the daily support and maintenance of the systems and applications
- Provides backup to Tier 1 trading systems support personnel (day-to-day support)
- Ensures that escalated issues are tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
- Provides backup to Investment System Team consultants as needed
- Results driven, conveying a sense of urgency and bringing issues to closure despite obstacles and opposition
- Demonstrating outstanding flexibility and teamwork
- Demonstrating sound decision making which reflects an understanding of the firm's equity business and its priorities.
Skills: - Solid understanding of equity investment decision process including trading, trade settlement the associated technology platforms
- Skilled in querying SQL databases, creating basic MS Excel/Access applications and creating basic reports using Microsoft, Business Objects (Crystal Reports) or similar tools
- Must possess excellent client engagement skills
- Must possess excellent communications skills, both oral and written communication skills (polished, consultative style) are essential in the interaction with investments professionals, technical staff and senior managers
- Good project management skills and ability to lead small/medium sized multi-disciplinary project teams
- Proven ability to document business & functional requirements, test plans & test cases, workflows, business processes and information needed for system support
- Ability to effectively work on multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to changing business priorities, unexpected challenges meet deadlines and works well under pressure.
- Ability build consensus and agreements by way of calm and focused negotiations
- Ability to resolve conflicts
- Proven ability to provide outstanding customer service to all stakeholders
- Ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts to solve complex business and technology problems
- Past experience working with software engineers and other technical support professionals
- Good understanding of relational databases like Oracle, Sybase, etc, and the ability to write simple to complex SQL queries
Experience: - Ten plus years of investment industry experience in equity Trading experience, in roles demonstrating strong business systems analysis, quality assurance, project management and application support expertise
- Must have prior experience with Big Data sets and Statistical modeling
- Must have prior CRD experience
- Experience with Equity Trade Risk Management and knowledge of implementing controls that reduce the potential of trade errors
- Ten plus years of investment industry experience in equity Trading experience
- Ten plus years of technology experience working in the Asset Management business
- Five or more years of hands on experience Charles River IMS
- Five years of Statistical modeling experience
- Five years of working with Trade Costs Analytics
- Three or more years of hands on experience working with Big Data Sets
- Prior experience optimizing business / trading workflows
- Three or more years of experience with portfolio analytical applications such FactSet, Bloomberg
- Experience with establishing and maintaining strong relationships with the various equity investment and trading teams .
- Experience with gathering, documenting and translating business requirements into technical specifications the support of the ongoing development
- Proven ability to tailor and deliver information to the needs of the target audience
- Experience or knowledge of complete software development life cycle
- Experience in different testing methodologies
Education: - CFA or MBA
- BA/BS equivalent
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