Business Analyst

Vacancy Name: Business Analyst

Location City: Andheri - Mumbai

Description:

SmartStream's Fees and Expense Management (FEMS) business seeks a Business Analyst with capital markets experience and a proven track record of execution working on enterprise technology initiatives. Assignments will support IT, Operations and Continuous Improvement development activities.

Job Responsibilities:

Successful applicants will have experience working with internal and external clients, collecting and organizing data, have the ability to define collection methodology, templates, and tools, and be skilled at defining and prioritizing work in an efficient manner.

Key areas of responsibilities:

Requirements Management:
- Elicit, record and analyze requirements to enable traceability to a desired customer outcome
- Document dependencies and interrelationships among requirements, as well as any assumptions
- Use advance techniques to capture existing, new, and unknown requirements (e.g., brainstorming, process workflow diagrams, qualitative and quantitative analysis, reverse engineering)
- Use tools that promote better understanding of the desired end-product such as visual aids, prototyping, and modeling tools

Stakeholder Management and Client Engagement:
- Directly engage functional owners and other stakeholders professionally, without supervision, and with appropriate messaging
- Complete business case and impact analysis on implementing new changes
- Document and clearly articulate the 'as is', 'to be' and transitional states for impacted users and delivery teams
- Validate with stakeholders to confirm accuracy and completeness
- Liaise between business units, technology teams and support teams to ensure the solution delivered meets all business needs and to avoid rework
- Provide client engagement support to customers on behalf of FEMS

Solution Delivery:
- Identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions
- Contribute to the definition, design and delivery of solutions in accordance with specified scope, requirements, quality standards and target delivery dates
- Complete full range of required project activities related to maintaining artifacts and documentation
- Engage and support FEMS internal improvement initiatives as assigned
- Able to evaluate process and identify process gaps and suggest recommendations for improvement

Key Skills:

- Experience in the analysis of both business processes and the design of technology based solutions.
- Ability to understand, explain and present complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels in a persuasive and convincing manner.
- Ability to conceptualize and think creatively.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities while managing multiple activities, and objectives.
- Experience with Jira, business process modelling, Unified Modeling Language (UML), and UML artifacts
- Highly competent in MS Office Suite, MS Visio, and UML modelling tools, Macros & python
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.
- Demonstrated excellence in a variety of competencies including teamwork/collaboration, analytical thinking, communication and influencing skills, and technical expertise.
- Ability to work with changing priorities and with multiple projects.
- Ability to be precise and attentive to detail is essential.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to work weekend and off-hour work on occasion.

Desirable Skills:

- Knowledge BC&E (Brokerage, Clearing, and Exchange) expense categories, global securities market structure, and accounting
IIBA certification of ECBA; CCBA or CBAP preferred
Technically skilled in writing SQL queries, macros and use of python

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and/or its equivalent required.

Experience: Minimum 3 years' related experience.

Employment Type: Permanent

Equality Statement:

SmartStream is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity and following practices which are free from unfair and unlawful discrimination.