Business Analysis Associate

About This Role

The Business Analysis Associate partners with financial risk management users, subject matter experts, and technology teams to support financial risk management related projects. This role involves assessing, analyzing, documenting, and validating business, regulatory, audit, and system requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support management in meeting with business personnel to understand project concept, objectives, and approach; facilitate defining project strategy and scope.
• Assist in prioritizing, planning, executing, and tracking of BRDs and JIRA stories for all relevant projects.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Review Use Cases and other functional documents with IT project staff to ensure business requirements are adequately reflected in technical planning documents.
• Consult with business users for eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, business analysis, and workflow analysis.
• Distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs via discussions using "Use Cases" and mock-ups.
• Identify and understand problems, analyze data, and recommend solutions.
• Draft business requirements in collaboration with business subject matter experts and information technology.
• Coordinate with cross-functional business teams and technology delivery teams to support all aspects of business requirement gathering and user acceptance testing.

Requirements

• 4+ years Business Analysis, Data analysis or software testing experience
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile methodology (SDLC/SILC, Agile, Kanban, ALM, JIRA)
• Strong curiosity and desire to understand complex risk workflows
• Ability to think critically, ask insightful questions, and challenge assumptions
• Experience with Microsoft products, JIRA

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 4 years of related experience in Business Analysis, Data analysis or software testing

Nice to Have

• Willingness to build and expand skills in automation and quality assurance
• Experience with Axure, Power BI, Sigma, Cloud Technology
• Experience in Financial industry with focus on Risk Management, particularly Equity, Fixed Income, Liquidity Risk Management & Stress Testing

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits