Business Analyst

Exciting opportunity for an individual to join a newly formed team in a dynamic and fast-growing area looking to implement new and innovative solutions to serve our wealth client needs.

Business Analyst

• Consistently performs with a positive and proactive demeanor to understand business needs and contributes to technology solutions that achieve business and client objectives.
• Builds and maintains effective working relationships with internal and external teammates.
• Demonstrates ability to lead across projects and teams.
• Has strong analytical and problem solving skills, the skill to dissect and detail complicated situations and propose creative process & technical solutions.
• Can facilitate and engage in multiple intricate projects at a given time.
• Operates with a continuous learning and improvement approach to deliver high quality and timely outcomes.
• Possesses excellent facilitation, communication skills, and can communicate effectively at all levels, in all forms, and to all functional groups.
• Contribute to Wealth product roadmap development and delivery to achieve strategic business objectives.
• Engage business and technology partners to define and document requirements, features or user stories, while proactively identifying and mitigating related dependencies or risks.
• Provide input and feedback relating to solutions alternatives and prioritization to support delivering the highest business value.
• Coordinate with teammates to iterate on feature development, testing and readiness.
• Develop test plans and support testing to ensure the technical development enables the business needs.
• Capture business requirements, translating them into an easy to implement technical solutions, integrations, system designs, tests, transformations, and reports.
• Create and update project artifacts such as task boards, use cases, application documentation, release notes, and technical writeups.
• Proactively seek challenges to identify and resolve potential issues with new development or ongoing operational support.
• Identify and implement efficiencies to optimize capabilities.
• Conduct or facilitate training and information sharing sessions with supporting documentation or reference material for employees and team members as needed.
• Additional responsibilities related to the role as required.

Skills

• Proven capabilities and experience in three or more of the following areas : Applications Development, Business Process and Workflow Management, Enterprise Architecture, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, and Systems Support.
• Background in Financial Services and/or financial applications; Experience with Salesforce a plus.
• Experience with Agile software development, traditional project management, and Six Sigma methodologies and techniques.
• Data modeling and design understanding, including conceptual and logical modeling
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, including experience translating business and technical concepts or decisions with diverse audiences.
• Strength with analytical, data, problem solving and collaboration skills.
• Experience with systems integrations and data mapping preferred.
• Attention to detail and quality to fulfill responsibilities.
• Proficient with Microsoft, process/workflow and collaboration tools.

Education Preferred

• Bachelor of Arts (B.A) or Science (B.S), or equivalent experience