IT Help Wanted: [itroundtable] FW: Sr Businss Analyst opportunity in Manhattan 9438

Monday, October 6, 2014

[itroundtable] FW: Sr Businss Analyst opportunity in Manhattan 9438

From: Thomas Rella [mailto:thomas.rella@princetoninformation.com]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 8:33 AM
To: scott.sommer@ieee.org
Subject: Sr Businss Analyst opportunity in Manhattan 9438

10/06/14 8:29 AM
Hello,

My name is Thomas and I'm an IT recruiter at Princeton Information. I am contacting you today in regards to a Senior Business Analyst opportunity in downtown Manhattan with a global financial service company. I wanted to share the job description with you to see if you might be interested.

W2 Only
6-12 month extendable contract pending performance

Description

The Technology & Operations Management Systems Group aims to deliver best-of-breed solutions to optimize the management of Technology & Data and Operations businesses. Applications in this space support a range of management processes: Program & Portfolio Management, Client Budgeting, Capital Budgeting, Time Tracking & Client Billing, Resource Management, and Project Tracking & Delivery Management. The team typically manages large, complex multi-silo projects, or change programs across the Tech & Data and Operations divisions.

This position is for a Business Analyst focusing on capturing and converting business requirements into executable functional design. The role requires ability to face-off to a diverse base of user-groups to solicit requirements and manage expectations as to what is achievable within realistic time frames. Successful candidate will face-off to the Technical Team, acting as advocate for the various user groups and have very strong documentation skills.

Position will assist in all aspects of the software development life cycle, including:

Requirements Gathering - produce business requirements and process documentation. Will require facing off with multiple business lines and regions. Candidate must possess ability to synthesize user requirements, break them into logical phases and identify key dependencies required for success (e.g. business processes and standards).
Functional Design - assist project team with designing functional specifications to meet the business requirements. Specifications will include creating user interface wireframes, documenting application behavior, data analysis, and business rules.
Testing - assist in the creation of system and user acceptance test plans as well as executing the plans or coordinating their execution.
Training - Coordination and support of training program - work with business areas and training department to develop and deploy multi-channel training as needed.
Support - Assist in the investigation and resolution of day-to-day production support requests for existing applications.
Project Management - Candidate should be well-versed in project management tasks, such as developing a project plan/work breakdown structure, compiling project status reports for management, managing scope, and setting project governance models.

Qualifications

Experience with different requirements gathering techniques (ex. gap analysis, cross-functional process flows, use case modeling).
Proven ability to assimilate complex business problems and resolve ambiguous information into clearly articulated functional and technical requirements, then oversee the conversion to a technical solution.
Strong documentation skills for all aspects of a project life cycle (requirements, design, testing).
Demonstration of process and/or system ownership in one or more of the following areas: Client budgeting, capital budgeting, IT funding request management, cash/fiscal planning, or other financial management processes related to tracking planned and actual spend.
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.
Ability to operate/communicate horizontally and vertically across the various business units and IT and comfortable conversing with Business Sponsors/Business Stakeholders/Technical Developers.
Strong customer/client relationship skills (understanding and focusing on the clients' needs, establishing credibility and building relationships with clients, etc.).
Ability to work as part of a global team.
Self-starter able to execute with minimal supervision.
Accurate, tenacious & delivery focused, with an eye for detail and design.
Understanding of and exposure to full development lifecycle.
Excellent hands-on experience of MS Office (including Visio) and SharePoint.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience in writing functional requirements, user documentation and training materials. Must be able to get the message across to a variety of audiences.

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If you are interested please send me an updated version of your resume in Word format along with any salary requirements you may have and we can discuss this role and your background a little more in depth.

Thanks I look forward to hearing from you,

Thomas Rella
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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 Princeton Information. 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.
Thanks again.

Thomas
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Princeton Information
100 Harborside Financial Center, 11th Floor
Jersey City, NJ 07311
201-604-9900