Business Analyst - Morgan McKinley
About the job
Our client is a global financial services institution looking to add a permanent Business Analyst to their growing team.
Job Summary
The role is focusing on project coordination for the department of our client's European entities. You will be working closely with other cross functional teams and you will have the opportunity to build an excellent knowledge of our client's wide range of products.
This role will be a key member of a growing team, you will assist with the setup and launch of new markets and/or strategies, coordinating across departments, and identifying operational requirements and system changes to support the business.
What you'll be doing:
Ongoing responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Business Analysis- Identify all stakeholders of business requests.
- Provide visibility into deliveries.
- Confirm goals and objectives with business and expected delivery timeframe.
- Escalate with stakeholders when other priorities begin to impact the roadmap.
- Work with technology teams to collect requirements with the goal of satisfying business needs.
- Identify goal & scope (i.e. list of in-scope / out-of-scope items) of a specific project.
- Confirm with stakeholders what criteria will be used to consider the project complete.
- Prepare, monitor, and update project plans for stakeholders
- Escalate early to stakeholders when issues or risks arise.
- Identify milestones and dependencies on other groups or external parties.
- Coordinate between teams.
- Provide status updates to stakeholders.
- Ownership of delivery of requirements.
What we're looking for:
- 3rd level degree preferably in a business, finance or engineering related discipline is desirable.
- Some industry experience within - fund accounting, middle office, trade support, settlements. Supporting projects in these roles is desirable. For example, experience with onboards of new business, fund launches or working on regulatory projects.
- Attention to detail and good organizational skills are essential. High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office particularly Excel. Some exposure to VBA/SQL and python an advantage.
- Strong communicator (verbal and written). Able to interact with all levels and departments within the company.
- Experience using Jira and Confluence to manage workflows and document requirements.
- Ability to work under pressure and multi-task.
- Ambitious and self-motivated, not afraid to ask questions and use own initiative.
- Effective problem solving and analytical skills; including effective troubleshooting in a fast paced, time critical environment.
- Knowledge of and an interest in financial markets.