Job description

- A good understanding of the overall investment process and its data needs of a buy-side investment firm

- Thorough understanding of different asset classes – Fixed Income, Equity, Derivatives preferably with a Equity bias

- Thorough understanding of at least one buy-side processes - Trading, Portfolio Management or Research

- Knowledge of one or more standard market data products from providers like Bloomberg, Reuters etc.

- Must have the ability to visualise data and identify patterns within and across subject areas

- Must have the ability to understand and relate data lineage and its impact to investment process

- Ability to understand a business process and translate it into data requirement

- Basic knowledge of technology, third party products and their usage within the investment management domain

- Must possess working knowledge of database technologies to query standard databases like Oracle, Sybase etc.

- Must be an expert in using MS Office products like Visio and Excel

Experience and Qualifications

MBA Finance from Tier 1 and Tier 2

- Minimum of 3 years relevant business analysis experience preferably with a buy-side financial services firm

- At least 2.5 years proven experience as a Business Analyst

- Graduation in Commerce/Economics or MBA (Finance) preferred.

- Experience of working with 3rd party market data providers e.g. Bloomberg, Reuters, Factset etc.

- Exposure to structured software development life-cycle methodology (preferably Agile or Iterative development)

- Experience of working with multi-cultural teams in a geographically diverse environment

Key Responsibilities

- Work closely with business analysts/SME in strategic business programmes to define data requirements

- Analyse existing systems and understand the business process and data required to support the same

- Build solution documents to support data acquisition, management and consumption for end consumers

- Liaise with internal system owners and/or 3rd party data providers to develop effective strategy for acquiring data

- Prepare test plans and participating in system testing activities as per QA processes

- Support the System team during implementation- e.g. data loading & cutover/migration analysis

- Support business in preparation of user test procedures and user acceptance testing

- Provide pre-implementation and post-implementation support to the systems and business teams

- Perform current state analysis in legacy system with respect to usage of data subject areas. E.g. Reference data, Market data, Research data, Positions/Holdings data etc.

Revert ASAP with your updated profile with following details: -

Exp. as a Business Analyst ( In Yrs)
Exp. in Agile or Iterative
Exp. in Buy Side Financial Services
Exp. In Web Transactional System
Exp. in Bloomberg / Reuters / Factset
Current Company
Current Location
Ready to Relocate Gurgaon

Contact-
Ajay Gupta
www.planmanconsulting.com
(New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune & Hyderabad )
Feel Free to Connect with me
http://in.linkedin.com/in/toajaygupta

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