[itroundtable] LEAD: Business Analyst -- Contract with Major Financial Firm in NYC

 

Please contact the recruiter directly.   Ann Bergquist http://www.linkedin.com/in/annbergquist Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:08:24 -0400 From: jobied@diversant.com To: annber@hotmail.com Subject: Business Analyst -- Contract with Major Financial Firm in NYC 04/08/11 2:02 PM Greetings, My name is Jason Obiedzinski and I'm a Recruiter at Diversant LLC.  You've received this email because the skills in your resume matched our search criteria for a Business Analyst in our database.  It is possible that you may not be best suited for this particular position, but we have multiple positions available in all areas and levels of IT where you may be interested and better suited.  Please respond if you are qualified, available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest in working with us as we have an excellent referral program. Below is the job description to which I am referring for a current job opening located in NEW YORK, NEW YORK.    Description:  An opportunity exists for a dynamic, quick learning individual with solid analytical and communications skills to analyze business requirements for mission critical projects in support of the Bank's diverse business needs. Area Overview The Program Management Office (PMO) is the Technology Services Group's (TSG) primary customer facing organization. It is made up of five groups including Project Management. The Project Management group provides a single point of focus for the management of development and technology projects. The group is accountable for all aspects of projects across all phases, through implementation, as well as across all parties contributing to projects. PMO has formed a centralized team of business technology analysts. The projects to which the selected candidate will be assigned will be based on the candidate's business analysis experience and businesses previously supported. The PMO is seeking candidates for Business Technology Analyst for projects within its Fedwire and Markets portfolios. These projects are to enhance critical applications for the settlement of wholesale banking payments as well as supporting the analysis of such data. The candidates must be able to work closely with developers to understand the current applications and system interfaces to ensure business designs satisfy the business needs. Software development background is preferred. The Business Analyst works closely with the various teams on application projects from inception to completion. It is the Business Analyst's responsibility to understand, document, and track the business needs and requirements throughout the project life-cycle. The Business Analyst will facilitate and participate in internal work sessions as well as JAD sessions with stakeholder to elicit and analyze requirements, create functional specifications, wired frames, user scenarios, process flow diagrams and other business design artifacts based on internal process. The Business Analyst must have a strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and foster communication between technical and non-technical audiences ensuring technology solutions fulfill the business needs. Job Responsibilities • Work with stakeholders to help them understand their requirements within the scope of a project. Elicit requirements, brainstorm business process enhancements, analyze existing business documentation, observe existing business operations, and facilitate focus groups. • Develop business design documents, models, and diagrams for verification by stakeholders including business users, developers, and testers. The business design includes functional designs to describe how users will interface with a system and non-functional requirements such as response time, contingency, and throughput requirements. Document the business design in a testable and unambiguous form by working closely with the developers and testers. • Analyze requirements to identify additional requirements that can be derived from what the users specified. Identify and resolve inconsistencies in requirements and business designs. • Communicate requirements and business designs, resolve conflicts, facilitate requirements prioritization, and gain formal approval. • Maintain traceability between business design and requirements. Identify, track, and resolve defects in requirements and business designs. • Perform analysis on change requests to help determine their impact on the project. • Act as primary requirements go-to person during the designing, development and system testing of projects • Review system test plans and test cases to verify that they thoroughly and accurately test the system. • Provides direction and mentoring to other business analysts or project analysts in performing activities for business analysis and design. • May assist in developing GUI standards or business analysis processes. Job Requirements • Bachelor's degree in business or IT related field. • Typically at least 7 or more years of experience in business analysis • Working knowledge of applications for the settlement of banking payments or funds transfers is preferred • Software development background is preferred • Excellent listening and observation skills • Excellent interviewing and questioning skills • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills • Strong ability to facilitate meetings • Flawless writing skills • Modeling skills; ability to define processes and workflows • Ability to teach and present material • Strong business knowledge • Good planning and organizational skills • Good interpersonal skills • Quick in learning and adapting to new projects with minimal supervision • Creativity • Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint • Proficient in Visio • Working knowledge of screen mockup or wire frame • Experience using SharePoint is a plus     **GREENCARD AND U.S. CITIZENS ONLY** Thank you. Note: Please allow me to reiterate that I chose to contact you either because your resume had been posted to one of the internet job sites to which we subscribe, or you had previously submitted your resume to Diversant. I assumed that you are either looking for a new employment opportunity, or you are interested in investigating the current job market. If you are not currently seeking employment, or if you would prefer I contact you at some later date, please indicate your date of availability so that I may honor your request. In any event, I respectfully recommend you continue to avail yourself to the employment options and job market information we provide with our e-mail notices.     **PLEASE RESPOND WITH YOUR MOST UPDATED RESUME IN A WORD DOCUMENT**  Thanks again.   Jason Obiedzinski Diversant. jobied@diversant.com www.diversant.com

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