Business Analyst Sapient

Business Analyst for Capital Markets and Asset Management domain requires candidate with strong domain knowledge, analytical skills   and ability to communicate with Business and Technical teams.

Responsibilities:

• Work with multiple Business Departments and IT teams to capture requirements and help implement solution
• Analyze and conceive new business processes and re-engineer existing ones for optimization
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications for the development team.
• Create BRD/FSD
• Liaise between business and technical teams to ensure a full understanding of requirements on both ends
• Document and create use case scenarios for requirement verification
• Co-ordinate User Acceptance Testing
• Document product and business knowledge to make it accessible to team members and end users.
• Maintain extensive knowledge of all the business unit's applications around Capital Markets domain.
• Support application Development/production incidents and provide business support

Required Skills:

• Strong Knowledge in Capital Markets Domain ( trade Life cycle/reference Data/Performance/Accounts reference manager)
• Knowledge of financial markets, reference and market data
• Knowledge of key products including Equities, FI, Derivatives, FX etc
• Knowledge of Client Reference Data
• Knowledge of Trade Life Cycle
• Knowledge on Accounting /Reconciliation process used for Capital Markets
• Knowledge of Business processes modelling.
• Understanding of RUP/ SDLC / agile process around requirement engineering.
• Knowledge of system testing and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles/concepts.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written to communicate with global users
• Good understanding of SQL and XML an asset.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks according to criticality
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and decipher business unit lingo
• Ability to analyze requirements and determine testing mechanisms
• Ability to think strategically and provide insight into how to improve existing business and technology processes
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper Management, clients, and other departments.
• Ability to quickly digest new information and learn new businesses and processes
• Ability to investigate a problem, determines root cause, and work with end users to solve their issues.