Financial Software & Systems - Product Business Analyst

EXPERIENCE : 5 to 15 Years

LOCATION : Chennai

THE BUSINESS ANALYST IS EXPECTED TO :

- Be product team's eyes and ears and provide feedback / further opportunities to build/enhance the backlog

- Create and deliver FSDs on prioritized UJs for specific personas and evaluate relevance of backlog w.r.t strategic priorities and dollar relevance

- Evaluate competition and market potential for the specific product line and support the Product Owner and Manager accordingly

- Act as a Thought leader within the company

- To work with the sales/BD teams in handing over any pre-sales efforts

- To articulate (through written submissions and oral presentations) solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and their relevance w.r.t strategic vision and dollar relevance

- Support sales efforts with in-depth product and business knowledge

- To maintain a thorough knowledge of the company's products and service offerings and methodologies

- Understand, translate and map clients functional or business requirements to the product offerings and help customer evaluate the benefit.

- Ensure smooth transition to technical teams of the business and functional requirements agreed with customer and enable initial hand holding and relationship building with customer.

- Come up with suggestion and requirements that would enhance the Points-of-Parity & Points-of-Differentiation of the base product

- Formulate responses to and collate info of RFP/RFQ received from clients

REQUIREMENTS :

- Experience in Agile framework with Jira/Rally/Agile Central

- Knowledge and understanding of Personas, UJs, Epics - Specific Product line

- Ability to effectively develop & present to both business and technical audiences at all levels of the organization and communicate effectively thru remote virtual tools like Skype/Lync, WebEx

- Technically skilled with a customer focused mind and excellent communication skills

- Ability to work independently and to be proactive

- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills, ability to execute SQL queries

- Willingness to travel within a wide geographical area for client meetings upto 15% of the time

- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)