Lead/Manager - IT Business Analyst - BFSI

Key Responsibilities

- Subject matter expert in pensions domain

- Ability to plan delivery of requirements – requirements prioritization, effort required for delivery of requirements based on project size, complexity and stability

- Determines stakeholder influence and relationship needs, is able to manage conflicting requirements from various stakeholders

- Is able to drive improvements in the requirements process

- Is able to manage and mentor team members/Junior BAs

- Uses all possible tools and techniques to drive sign-off across large programmes of work

- Selects appropriate analysis approach and artefacts and gains agreement to these from the project team

- Facilitates large workshops to reach a rapid consensus across a broad group of stakeholders

- 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

- Is able to drive the preparation of 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.

Experience and Qualifications

- 8-10 years relevant business analysis experience preferably with a financial services firm

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

- 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

Essential Skills

- Strategic mindset and big picture thinking to be able to be able to partner with business in business initiatives

- Ability to think creatively and come up with innovative ideas and solutions that can help transform business

- Excellent communication skills to be able to put forth ideas, engage team members and customers and drive decisions

- Demonstrated ability to teach, facilitate and communicate effectively including coaching and mentoring of team members to successful completion of projects

- Proven experience of collaborating and influencing at senior levels

- Being able to work in rapidly changing environment

- Ability to drive thought leadership on usage of tools in the requirements process

- 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 pensions 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

Exp. as a Business Analyst
Exp. in pensions domain
Current Company
Current Location
Ready to Relocate Gurgaon
Current CTC
Expected CTC
Notice Period

Ajay Gupta (Sr. Consultant)
www.planmanhr.com / www.planmanconsulting.com
(Delhi,Mumbai,Bangalore,Kolkata,Hyderabad,Pune,Chennai)
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