Business Analyst

Amsterdam  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Proteus Europe is searching for a Business Analyst available to work in a long term contract for one of our clients in Netherlands

Our Client :-
Are a globally respected consultancy company who operate at the highest levels of service and successful delivery. They have a track record for delivering projects on time with customer satisfaction as their first priority. They set high standards and as such working with them also reflects on your high standards of service and programming ability.

Your New role :-

Business Analyst will be working with sophisticated investment teams that manage a range of complex products. This is a hands on role which includes specifications and functional tests definition for the features of an existing solution for data Modeling, named Liability Driven Investments Front Office.
The BA would be expected to participate to all team meetings and he will be the business contact in order to analyze and specify properly the features and its functional tests. The Business Analyst will:o Gather and validate business requirements, based on discussion with the business stakeholderso Prioritize requirements, and understand the effort involvedo Participate in the planning process along with the development team and the business stakeholderso Communicate with stakeholders (such as end users, other teams within the organization or external data providers) in order to arrive at a solution designo Document the solution design at a functional level, and communicate this to the development and test team. He/she will completely involved as soon as possible in the functional tests with the development in order to improve our quality and efficiencyo Co-ordinate with the tests to ensure that functional requirements are fully covered in testingo Co-ordinate and participate in UAT testing with business stakeholders, leading to UAT sign-offo Train end users on new features
Deliverables/Livrables
Detailed specifications for the business requirements
Functional architecture setup
Data quality validation process
Business Process reviews
Functional tests

Essential Skills :-
Technical prerequisite/
SQL and Data base design
VBA and scripting languages
Excel
Testing tools

Technical skills
Mandatory
Sufficient domain knowledge/experience to understand, query and validate business requirements, and track these through the development process. Specifically:
- Detailed understanding of the investment process, including research, analysis, modelling, risk, performance and portfolio construction; understanding of liability driven investment.
- Strong knowledge about financial instruments and related information (e.g. ratings), to be able to understand how this information is modeled and transmitted by various data sources.
- In depth knowledge of the requirements and processes of the following businesses: asset allocation, global balanced risk modelling, strategy application and portfolio construction techniques, absolute return products, fiduciary management
Others: experience on SQL, Excel, VBA and data base design is mandatory

Functional Testing tools
Scripting languages (Python..)

Other skills (like language)
Fluent English (Reading, Speaking and Writing)
Agile methodology (Sprint Planning, Estimation, Stand up meetings, items management)

Proteus Europe operates in partnership with our candidates by building strong and lasting
relationships at all levels.

If you apply for this role, we will:

- Contact you within one week to discuss your current situation and suitability for this role.
- Keep searching for other suitable positions should this role not be right for you.
- Keep you informed at every stage of the recruitment process.
- Actively follow up with our client on your behalf to gain useful feedback throughout the
process.

If you are looking for a new role, but this role isn't quite right for you, please contact us in
confidence for a discussion about how we can help you.
Start date
02/2018
Duration
12 months
From
Proteus Europe
Published at
22.02.2018
Project ID:
1508212
Contract type
Freelance
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