Information Technology Business Analyst

Role: IT Business Analyst

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid role - 3days Onsite)

Duration: 6 Months Contract

Requirements:

• Conduct interviews, workshops, surveys, and other elicitation techniques with various stakeholders (business users, subject matter experts, technical teams) to gather comprehensive business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Analyze and document current-state ("as-is") business processes
• Develop and maintain comprehensive Business Requirements, Functional Specification and process flow diagrams
• Translate high-level business needs into detailed, unambiguous, and testable requirements specifications
• Critically evaluate information gathered, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into detail, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true business needs
• Partner with local and Head Office IT teams to understand system capabilities, features, limitations
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and technical leads to ensure proposed solutions align with business requirements and strategic objectives.
• Participate in design sessions and provide input from a business perspective.
• Review and validate technical designs and prototypes against documented requirements.
• Define solution proposals based on information gathered from system SME’s taking into consideration system capabilities, features and functionality available and used by other platforms
• Drive project deliverables managing timelines, and proactively resolving blockers
• Escalate issues impacting the project in a clear concise and timely manner
• Liaise with local and AMER compliance members on projects ensuring that subject matter experts and stakeholders are appropriately engaged
• Make recommendations to improve effectiveness and overall process efficiency
• Provide clear and concise project reporting to USIT management

Note:

• Domain (must have) KYC / Client onboarding / Regulatory / Compliance Banking or capital markets experience Exposure to regulators (FINRA, Fed, etc.)
• BA capability (core) : Writing: BRDs / FRDs and Functional specs with Creating: Process flows / Data flow diagrams
• Data + technical edge (key differentiator) SQL + Python (data analysis) Power BI (or similar) for storytelling Ability to: Pull data, Reconcile across systems, Present insights