Genesis10 is seeking a Technical Business Analyst for our client in the financial services industry. This 5 month + Contract position is located in St. Petersburg, FL. Financial Services domain experience is required. Open to remote for exceptionally skill matched candidates. Local candidates are preferred.
W2 Hourly Pay rate range: $65- $75, depends on skills and experience
W2 Status: Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.
Description:
Under general supervision, uses specialized knowledge and skills obtained through education, experience and/or, specialized training to serve as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization to provide solutions to meet user needs. Provides business analysis support for moderately complex trading workflows, including analyzing and documenting existing workflows and validates the same as we migrate to a new product. May train or lead the work of others. Works directly with vendor product development teams to evaluate and recommend solutions. Extensive contact with internal customers and external vendors is required to identify, research, and resolve problems.
Responsibilities:
- Adheres to established standards and maintains currency in business analysis practices, procedures and techniques.
- Consults with users to identify, analyze, refine and document business requirements.
- Follows up with internal clients about completed tasks to ensure client satisfaction.
- Develops and documents testing strategies for trading workflows, creates test scenarios to test/verify vendor product updates.
- Develops test plans and scripts and coordinates test transmissions, as required. Tests software.
- Provides training and may lead the work of others, as required.
- Reviews operational procedures and methods; maps current business processes; defines and analyzes business activities; identifies best practices; and recommends improvements.
- Serves as a liaison between end users and software development teams, including functioning as a subject matter expert (SME) in translating requirements to software development teams.
- Maintain currency in analyst skills.
Requirements:
- The key to this role is prior Financial Services domain experience and understanding of Trading, as the project involves Trading migrations.
- Need prior Financial Services domain experience in relation to Regulatory, as well as recent applicable experience with FIX protocol.
- Concepts of risk management, issue tracking, change management and requirements gathering.
- Concepts, practices and procedures analyzing business processes.
Investment concepts, practices and procedures used in the capital markets business. - This BA role is technical and functional, and Financial Services domain experience is a must. Need to be able to understand Order Management Systems, life of an equity order and trade and regulatory aspect of trading.
Equity trading workflows
- Sell side domestic and international equity trading business - both in Algo space and Retail OTC trading Middle office trading bunching and allocations Familiar with Client regulatory reporting.
- More detailed awareness of the business context of a technical solution, including specific business goals associated with the project, how the project will meet the goals, and their own part in advancing the goals.
- General financial industry knowledge and knowledge of supported business area.
- Business Analysis tools: Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), Software Engineering Methodology (SEM) process, Change Management, basic database query language usage, time tracking tools, advanced quality assurance (QA) tool usage for test case development, execution, and defect tracking/issue tracking
- Creating and interpreting process maps and flowcharts.
- Preparing various reports, and summaries.
- Conducting usability testing of software applications.
Ability to:
- Ask pointed questions to verify clear understanding of client issues.
- Analyze a business function and derive a set of requirements to satisfy a general request.
Take ownership of an aspect or task on a project with little to no assistance.
Education:
- BS degree or equivalent experience.
Traits for success:
- Provide a high level of customer service.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
- Exhibit a positive attitude when dealing with others.
- Follow all internal procedures for handling customer requests.
- Communicate timely and through proper channels to keep customer and upper management informed of the progress of an issue.
- Take personal ownership of issues, following through to issue resolution.
- Attend to detail.
- Analyze and solve logic problems.
- Meet all deadlines created by management or clearly communicate to management the reasons the deadlines are not possible.
- Effectively organize and prioritize all tasks and responsibilities.
- Participate in team projects and activities.
- Demonstrate flexibility in accepting and adapting to change.
- Clear, concise, grammatically correct oral and written communications, including SEM documentation.
- Demonstrate appropriate frequency and level of detail in communications.
Desired Skills:
- Previous exposure to Order Management systems (for example: BRASS, Flextrade) Exposure Foreign exchange transactions related to cross currency settlements for international equity trading.
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!
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Benefits of Working with Genesis10:
- Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
- The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
- Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
- Behavioral Health Platform
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- 401K
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF & Illinois)
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