Senior Business Analyst

Company: Synechron
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: September 21, 2022

Job Description:

This business trades a wide variety of products which include Corporates, Municipals, Mortgages, Short Term, Structured Transaction, Banking as well as New Issues. The Business Analyst will be responsible for liaising between business users and technologists to exchange information in a concise, logical, and understandable way in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to continuous iterative exploration and investigation of business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning. The analyst will focus on enhancements and strategic roadmap of GSP pre-trade and trading applications. Excellent opportunity to gain exposure and further knowledge of sales/trading of corporate, municipal, and mortgage backed securities/derivative products, while leveraging technology to address key business challenges.

Responsibilities:

* Drive and provide input during development and implementation phases, including formulation and definition of systems scope, objectives and necessary system enhancements for complex, high-impact projects
* Identify and communicate risks and impacts and propose risk mitigation options, considering business implications of the application of technology to the current business environment
* Evaluate new IT developments and evolving business requirements and recommend appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems by analyzing business processes, systems and industry standards
* Provide in-depth and sophisticated analyses with interpretive thinking to define problems, develop innovative solutions and influence strategic functional decisions --- Work with developers across multiple global regions to translate business requirements into technically feasible and efficient solutions
* Partner with the GSP business managers/partners to understand business requirements and develop solutions for trading applications
* Collaborate with Application Managers to ensure project deliverables are understood, remain on track, and aligned with business goals
* Prepare bi-weekly status deck and maintain meeting minutes to ensure effective, on-going communications across all teams and stakeholders
* Effectively multi-task and prioritize numerous ongoing projects concurrently
* Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

* 7+ years of experience
* Prior experience with trade capture and order management applications is ideal.
* Understanding of trade processing and lifecycle
* Solid understanding of capital markets products
* Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint) with extensive experience using Excel for data analysis
* Superb analytical, written and verbal communication skills
* Demonstrable understanding of multiple system flows
* Comprehensive knowledge of the principles of business analysis, and demonstrable hands-on experience
* Experience with effective scope management and stakeholder management
* Excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills with tremendous attention to detail
* Proficient at writing and delivering business requirement documents and presentations

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