Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location requirements/Schedule: (remote east coast hours)

Location/s: Boston MA

Start Date: 4/15

Bonus/Benefits: NO

Type of contract: C2C W2 Contract to Hire C2C

Duration: 3 months with a chance for extension (different phases of the project)

Visa: USC GC EADGC

How many interviews: 2

Interview Process: Video

Important Skills: Jira Story Agile Methodology experience doing daily stand up meetings

Must Haves:

1. 6 years experience working as a Business Analyst for a FinTech or Financial services company.
2. Experience with PreTrading Systems
3. Experience working with multiple different stake holders (Development PMO Trading)

Nice to Have:

1. Experience with Jira Story
2. Agile exp
3. Extensive exp doing daily stand up meetings.

Major Responsibilities

• As part of a team responsible for requirementgathering configuration and coordinating solutions with the development team (both functional and nonfunctional projects)
• Manage and coordinate our Portfolio Managers Trading Operations and Client Service Teams to gather requirements. These requirements could vary from existing or new application modules and reports.
• Liaison between the business and development team to capture requirements in stories.
• Produce project documentation implementation summaries solution design documents test cases and enduser guides
• Follow Change Management processes if the requirements change after the signoff
• Participate in daily scrum meetings analyze assign user stories identify/resolve gaps in functional user stories/business requirements closely working with peers
• Align solutions and activities to business goals and priorities
• Review issues and service requests from business
• Coordinate Tier 1 support team with their task and oversight

Experience/Skills Required

• 6 years of experience as a Business Analysts working closely with Portfolio Manager or pretrading systems
• Previous experience of working closely with Portfolio Managers and their connected teams
• Good understanding of Trading Account lifecycle
• Ability to write extensive business requirements documentation KPI needs and reports
• Good communicator working directly with the business and able to handle client expectations
• Experience with and proponent for change management processes
• Dedicated work ethic and is proactive in solving business and technical issues
• Experience using Project management and agile tools like JIRA or Azure DevOps

Experience/Skills Preferred

• Understanding of all stages of agile development and deployment
• Experience practicing SCRUM (daily standup) and using concepts like burn down capacity planning sprint planning.
• Previous Scrum training or certification is a plus