BUSINESS ANALYST - $79k NYC

 

 Business Analyst to join our Product Management team. The qualified individual will be responsible for acting as an interface between our Options business unit and the platform development and implementation areas. They will also be involved in creating and assembling detailed business requirement specifications for new products/applications and product/application enhancements.

Responsibilities include:

• Participate in identifying user requirements by working on teams with a number of key individuals representing business and technology
  
• Document, communicate, and review requirements with product and project team members and sponsors
  
• Identify and document the impact of the requirements on existing systems and data
  
• Manage deadlines and work to meet feature requirements and customer expectations
  
• Assist in development of testing plans, scenarios and scripts and participate in user acceptance testing
  
• Assemble, complete, and distribute updates to key  documents for developers, testers, change management and our customers

Required Experience

Experience Required

• Must have previous experience writing business requirements and training materials for trading systems
  
• Must be familiar with formal requirements gathering and management process
  
• Working knowledge of system design, architecture and application programming/analysis
  
• In-depth understanding of software development life cycle
  
• Strong knowledge of equity or derivatives products, market data feeds, trade lifecycle and post-trade processing.  Knowledge of Futures is a DEFINITE plus.
  
• Understanding of the FIX financial messaging protocol a plus
  
• Bachelors degree in Finance, Engineering, Math, or Economics with a minimum of 4-6 years of IT business analysis experience
  
• Previous experience in equity or derivatives trading technology for an exchange or a brokerage/financial firm is preferable

 

Results Expected:

• Ability to learn details of managed applications quickly
  
• Able to handle dynamic trading environment and prioritization of projects/issues among a large client base
  
• Accurate and thorough requirements analysis
  
• Timely completion of requirements specifications
  
• Strong attention to detail
  
• Management of multiple analysis projects for various applications, developed internally and by other solution providers
  
• Effective communication and coordination with development, test and implementation colleagues, which will include external organization
  
• Know and apply best practices in requirements management

Job Location

New York, NY, US.

Position Type

Full-Time/Regular

Email resume in Word to thebiggamehunter@cisny.com  ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE SOUGHT. Please include the job code with the position.

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO 3RD PARTIES. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES.

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