Description
Business Analyst, Finance, quantitative data analysis, functional.
Senior Business Analyst required to work in Paris for 11 months.
Working within a huge Financial firm in Paris you will bring your experience in regulatory IT projects and drafting functional specifications.
Ideally you will have experience in the Financial Markets sector, Banking sector, or Insurance sector and experience in quantitative data analysis.
Tasks and Responsibilities.
As the Senior Business Analyst you will support the users in analysing the user requirements, drafting functional specifications, follow up implementation and organising testing.
You will ensure that the IT solution meets the user requirements and complies with existing IT principles and policies.
Establish functional specifications and Datamodelling, co-ordinate the user acceptance testing and support the drafting of the business area's related documentation.
Assist the project manager in planning activities.
Organise workshops and co-ordination of project stakeholders, taking into account the data and information required for this activity and the project schedule based on user-requirements.
Formulate Service Management procedures and Service Level requirements based on end-user input.
Develop business cases and approaches/methodologies to the analysis work.
Perform requirement engineering activities based on formal techniques and methods (analysing, capturing and managing requirements.)
Perform modelling of business processes.
Tests according to business specifications.
The Business Analyst will work in a team which will cover all those requirements. The Business Analyst may also be requested to work on other regulatory requirements.
Education and qualifications:
University degree (BSc) in computer science, computer engineering or business administration or proven ability to perform the tasks commensurate with such a formal academic qualification.
*Professional qualifications in business analysis
*Knowledge and skills:
*Experience in drafting functional specifications.
*Experience in regulatory IT projects.
*Experience in the Financial Markets sector, Banking sector, or Insurance sector.
*Excellent knowledge in defining and documenting user requirements, both functional and non-functional.
*Knowledge in requirement engineering activities based on formal techniques and methods (comprising the analysis, capture and management of requirements.)
*Experience in applying test methodologies.
*Excellent analytical skills and a problem-solving orientation.
*Knowledge of IT Service Management processes and best practice (such as ITIL), in particular in the areas of service level management.
*Very good command of English with proven drafting ability;
*Excellent knowledge in using Microsoft applications, including: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio.
Strong interpersonal skills, customer orientation, self-motivation, and the ability to work in a small team are very important.
Advantageous for the service concerned by this request form.
Experience in quantitative data analysis.
Experience in XML.
Experience in analysing impact on existing system and documenting upgrades.
Experience in data mapping/modelling.
Experience in reference data/master data management.
Experience in information collection and processing systems.
Good knowledge of financial instruments, including derivatives.
Good knowledge of the trading life cycle.
Experience in the upgrade or refactoring of complex IT systems.
If you are a Business Analyst with these skill sets then please do not hesitate to contact us for this great opportunity to flex your skills.