Business Analyst

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

Mandatory:

• 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
• understand 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)
• 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)
• Fluent written and spoken English

Nice to have:

• Experience with Architect tools such as Enterprise Architect
• Testing experience
• German language skills

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 using the following technologies:

• .Net 4.5 (C#)
• HTML5
• MS SQL Server 2010
• MVC 4
• Spark
• SSRS
• SOAP
• WCF
• OData
• WebAPI
• JavaScript

And the following tools:

• Visual Studio 2012
• MS SQL Management Studio (+ BIDS)
• Confluence Wiki 4.3.7
• JIRA v6.0 (with GreenHopper)
• TortoiseSVN
• Team City Enterprise 7.1.5
• RedGate SQL Toolbelt