Business Analyst/Engineer

Principal tasks are to:

• Encourage and facilitate communications between teams including Business Change Management, peer IT Analysts and Developers.
• Provide developers, database designers and testers with detailed specifications, which address the business objectives of the project.

Specific Tasks/Responsibilities:

• Understand and document current application flows within the architecture.
• Identify and document changes to the application flows that will be necessary to support business requirements for the project.
• Present Specifications to the Development Team and resolve queries raised by them
• Review Designs produced by the Development team, to verify requirements coverage
• Review and provide input into the test scripts and test cases
• Identify and Resolve Issues as a result of testing
• Query Database using SQL.
• Use Excel effectively to manipulate and present data.
• Working to improve the analysis processes within the project

• Quick Learner who is able to pick up concepts and data flows quickly
• Strong analytical, problem solving skills and structured working methods
• Basic level of business knowledge is required.
• Ability to understand the asset classes and their basic characteristics
• Understanding the investment management value creation chain
• Has experience working with agile development teams.
• Experience with RE tools such as JIRA, Wiki, Mockup tools (e.g. Balsamiq)
• Experience with Architect tools such as Enterprise Architect is a plus
• Proactive and solution driven personality with strong communication skills. Able to clearly document and transfer knowledge to development/business in simple terms
• Good Stakeholder management.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Knowledge of software development methods (TSQL knowhow is a bonus as is .Net)
• Testing experience would be a plus
• Fluent written and spoken English; German will be nice to have

The candidate will be working with an application used by the Advisory and Lifecycle management teams (collectively Product Management) in Zurich, APAC and New York. The advisory section helps with open architecture pricing and issuance while the LCM section is responsible for data quality and RM Event Notification. It is a key application for sourcing structured product data to external systems and for business reporting.

We are a distributed team of 8 members releasing into production on a monthly basis.

The application is based on .Net 4.5 (C#) platform.