senior business analyst for a financial information company

Business Analysis, Management, SQL

Georgia

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Senior Business Analyst for a Financial Information Company

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We are currently looking for a remote Senior Business Analyst with 3+ years of experience in financial reference data systems, databases, and projects to join our team.

The customer is a British-based stock exchange and financial information company. It helps companies to raise capital and investors to build their portfolios across a range of global markets.

responsibilities

Take a high-level project/deliverable scope from Product and/or Technology management, turn it into detailed requirements that can be actioned by the technology team, and own these requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle
Two key subject areas: Search Tech Modernization (migrating the Search ingest system from on-premises to AWS, which in some cases will include significant changes to the source data and therefore business logic) and Search Business deliverables (adding new content/functionality to the Search backend, to support Business needs)
Scale will range from very large projects (example: migrate a data source from a legacy feed format processed on-premises, to a strategic feed processed in the cloud, including mapping specifications, gap analysis, content issues, etc.) to small enhancements (example: add a new field to a dataset)
Liaise with stakeholders (e.g., product/technology managers, content specialists) to gather and refine requirements
Write detailed requirements as stories and/or larger specifications as appropriate
Act as product owner for these requirements, actively participating in agile ceremonies such as scrum meetings
Proactively work with the development team to refine and deliver stories, removing blocks and answering questions
Prioritize deliverables within and across projects, with input from product / technology management where needed
Carry out user-acceptance testing to confirm deliverables meet requirements
Assist with planning and coordinating the implementation of changes
Where required assist the team with issues/queries requiring a deeper level of analysis to resolve (but note this is not a support role)
Proactively conduct ad-hoc or regular meetings as required to achieve project success

requirements

3+ years of experience in financial reference data systems, databases and projects
University degree required, in a technical or business-related field
Candidates with a combination of technical/engineering and business backgrounds are preferred
Strong Stakeholder Management Skills
Experience working with Technical Stakeholders
Previous experience working with BE Projects with several dependencies
Ability to implement BA process from scratch
Experience of software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies
Experience in analyzing and writing requirements for complex information systems/databases
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
Strong analysis and problem-solving skills along with attention to detail
Data-related skills e.g., SQL, JSON, Data testing
Proven ability to managing multiple streams of work concurrently
English B2+