Business Analyst - (4-8 yrs)

Key Job Functions/Responsibilities :

- Interview customer users to identify business problems and requirements of new software

- Interview other Broadridge employees (and possibly third parties such as vendors, etc.) to obtain further insight into business problems

- Analyze conflicting requirements from different users, prioritize them, and develop business-oriented software requirements

- Liaise with the development team on the initiatives provided to you and lead the development priorities for your defined product areas

- Document and present the results of the above processes in a form that is meaningful to customers and the development team

- As the solution owner, monitor the SDLC progress to ensure smooth implementation from start to finish

- Resolve any oversights or ambiguities in the original specification

- Unit test all new system changes initiated by the development team

- Review the finished product with customers and confirm that all business requirements have been met

- Monitor production installation over time to ensure successful use of new software applications and features

- Lead focus group and information sessions to ensure successful use of new applications and features

- Present your products at internal information sessions

- Provide problem solving for client reported issues with the application

- Provide guidance to other business analysts and product team members

- Participate/lead larger scale, more complex projects

Additional Job Description :

Basic Skill Level Requirements :

Education :

- Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., business, computer science, engineering)

- Training in system integration life cycle methodologies

Experience :

- 3+ years' experience in the financial/brokerage industry with similar role in an agile environment

Skills/Tools :

- Analytical skills with financial/brokerage experience and specifically within the Cash Management / Money Movement domain

- Experience executing the development process with technical teams, internal partners and external vendors including writing business requirements / use cases / user stories, conducting user acceptance testing and communicating project status to project team.

- Expertise in following a SDLC process and a continuous improvement advocate during a Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) as well as project methodologies, including waterfall and Agile.

- Testing skills including creating business test cases and building test plans

- Seasoned at daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, backlog prioritization, user story preparation and demos.

- Interpersonal skills including building consensus, negotiation and facilitation

- Strong communication skills such as client interviewing, business writing, developing and delivering presentations

- Training skills: development and delivery of training

- Design Skills, data modeling, process modeling, knowledge of wireframes and prototyping

- Proficiency in MS Office suite of applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio

- Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, flowchart applications

- Knowledge of SQL would be beneficial