Senior Data Analyst - Capital Markets

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Senior Data Analyst - Capital Markets

Job Title: Senior Data Analyst - Capital Markets

Company: Direct IT Recruiting Inc.

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Status: 12 Month Contract

Job Category: Data Analysis

Career Level: Senior

Work Experience: 5+ years as a Data Analyst, legal compliance, PL/SQL Scripting, capital markets

Industry: Financial

DESCRIPTION:

Seeking a Senior Data Analyst to work on a Legal Compliance program.

- Delivery of detailed data requirements documentation and sourcing data elements to support required data for a Compliance system and other projects.

- Providing data analysis effort estimates

- Delivery of detailed data requirements for new or changed data models where required, transformations logic for information technology to build new data models or implement data processing improvement initiatives.

- Writing detailed PL/SQL scripts for sourcing data and preparing test cases.

- Providing global securities data expertise and data management leadership to achieve sustainable quality of information needed by the businesses to meet their objectives.

- Developing and maintaining a network of relationships with information technology, data management and the data management project team to manage ongoing processes, controls, and operational service levels.

- Working with appropriate business unit leaders to identify opportunities to standardize, streamline and automate incoming data files and flow of data.

- Understanding vendor data rights and ++communicates our obligations to our users to ensure we remain compliant with all data vendor contracts.

- Developing and implementing data management processes and controls to continually monitor data quality.

- Creating unit tests, integration test, and UAT test plans to certify the data quality for data repository upgrades, new data feeds, and application integrations.

- Documenting policies, procedures and work processes.

- Reviewing Application Design document to assess enterprise data required for metadata registration

- Building and maintaining metadata.

- Understanding the information technology concepts and ETL processes.

- Provide status in weekly project status meeting and/or daily buzz

- Assess inter-project risks and dependencies

- Other duties as may be required.

Senior Data Analyst consultant would also provide:

- Oversight of a team of DM analysts including data analysis activities and deliverables

- Provide data analysis staffing and effort estimates for work stream

- Support UAT

- Delivery of Detailed Data Requirements/Specifications for work stream

- Provide metrics for weekly status reporting

- Monitor requirements in terms of quality, completeness and accuracy for a work stream

- Monitor adherence to review and approval process

- Provide status in daily buzz (daily status reporting)

- Provide status, issues and risk by participating in Operating Committee

SKILLS:

- 5+ years of experience in Capital Markets

- Advanced knowledge in PL/SQL or WIN SQL

- University degree or equivalent experience (Business/Finance, BA, BSc, Financial Mathematics, Accounting or Computer Science)

- Broad knowledge of Finance in general

- Experience in working with cross functional groups.

- Experience with the full project life cycle from conception to implementation and support

- Excellent communication skills

- Candidate must be able to work independently and as part of a team with minimal supervision

- Compliance background

- Advanced designations such as CFA, FRM, MBA, Masters Finance

- Experience with Portfolio Accounting Systems, Bloomberg, FAME, FactSet or other financial systems an asset

- Other designations that may be an asset:

- Certified Business Analyst CBAP

- Certified Data Management Certificate

- Derivatives Fundamental Course

- Canadian Securities Course CSC

- Understanding of data legal agreements

Start date
Immediately
Duration
12 months
From
Direct IT Recruiting INC.
Published at
22.08.2015
Project ID:
970738
Contract type
Freelance
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