Organization & Department Overview
The Securities Master Central (SMC) is responsible for providing authoritative sources of securities indicative data to our clients across the organization, through implementing state of the art technologies and operational processes which promote the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of product, pricing, account and corporate action data. SMC BA team is tasked with the enhancement to the system including integration of vendor feeds, data model enhancement and updates to existing data from vendors. This may involve analyzing multiple data sets manually or engineering automated solutions. The overall objective of this role is to understand business needs & conduct data analysis
Job Description:
- Data Analysis for complex financial IT systems
- Reverse engineering functional specifications from data
- Work closely with End Users/Clients to understand Business Process/Industry Standards/Regulatory Mandate requirements.
- Work closely with Dev, PM and Operations partners
- Work with external data vendors (i.e., Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, Markit, etc)
- Able to lead programs which have multiple projects for certain area such as Equities
- Conduct Systems Integrated Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Create/Review Function Specification Documents (FSD) and Test Plans
- Guide and review work of people working in the program and larger global teams
- Be flexible to have coverage across all three time-zones (APAC, EMEA, NAM First half)
- Quick learner
Qualifications:
- Working experience of 12+ years min. as Business Analyst
- Strong in financial reference data & capital markets (Equities, Derivatives etc.)
- Strong SQL knowledge required (able to query data, analyze and troubleshooting)
- Strong Data analysis and Mapping skill
- College degree, specialized training or equivalent work experience
- Data Oriented with an excellent attention to detail
- Experience/understanding of business process reengineering and business modeling concepts, systems development lifecycle
- Strong analytical skills and writing skills, to include solid experience in writing functional and technical specifications
- Must possess good communication skills with the ability to be assertive
- Ability to focus on high quality work while under pressure
- Experience utilizing various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Agile (JIRA etc.)
- Comprehensive knowledge of the Testing Lifecycle with SIT, UAT, and Production.
- Experience working closely with IT Project managers and development teams
- Knowledge of MS Excel, Visio
- Experience with vendor product implementation
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