Acquisition - Pending Evaluation E

Grade Level (for internal use):

Department overview:

The Managed Corporate Actions service is a best-in-class centralized source of validated corporate action announcements for nearly three million equities, fixed income, and structured finance securities across global markets. MCA services customers as a single source that streamlines operations for the collection, validation and dissemination of corporate actions

Position summary

The role requires the candidate to have excellent organizational & communication skills, strong business analysis skills in leading the requirements gathering, documenting the same as visualized mock-ups/use cases, keeping the build backlog always up-to-date. The candidate is expected to work in the product management/business analysis requirement function and work closely with the Business/Product heads, fellow BA team members, Development and QA teams to deliver client requests, product enhancements, data quality improvements, operational efficiencies and system changes.

Duties & accountabilities

Understand the business requirements from the product and commercial team, business sponsors, external clients and the operations team along with understanding system capabilities from Development and QA leads and other key stakeholders

Gather, analyze and document detailed business and functional requirements. Obtain sign-off on requirements from functional stakeholders across the globe

Document requirements in the form of visualized mock-ups/use cases/user stories and keeping the product backlog well groomed & prioritized at all times

Manage prioritization of key projects including enhancements, system fixes, client/product/operational requests and keeping this in sync with product roadmap.

Drive innovations and efficiency by studying and analysing data and creating solutions which make existing processes streamlined

Define project/release scope, obtain development and QA estimates by working with project manager on the overall project plan

Transform business requests and other business requirements into technical requirements that can be implemented by the software development team, including filling in any gaps.

On daily stand ups, work with development team and business stakeholders to clarify work requests, overcome design obstacles, and make informed decisions in a timely fashion.

Work with the business and development team to establish acceptance criteria to ensure applications are thoroughly tested prior to release

Own the delivery and execution from the beginning of the business idea to final testing of the production release.

Identify any development risks and develop contingency plans.

Resolve complex design problems, specifically, integrating long ingrained heritage platform functionality into integrated solutions.

Independently and proactively evaluate and manage resolution for issues with the system using extensive knowledge of tools, application and process.

Develop clear action plans for problem resolution, monitor results and follows through until completion across multiple functional groups.

Work closely with development and QA to ensure implementation meets requirements and mitigate risks in overall project execution to enable completion of project per committed scope

Review test cases from QA team, conduct demos for end users, participate and monitor the UAT

Address client issues and escalated queries; participate in external calls/meetings with clients when required. Raise issues and requests from client service team, sales, or directly from clients with product managers.

Brainstorm and innovate solutions and new ideas to achieve efficiencies and new functionality to improve system usability, save cost, and increase revenue

Business competencies

Education and experience

Commercial awareness

Management requirements

Personal competencies

Personal impact

Communication

Teamwork