Manager Business Analyst is responsible for responsible for the analysis and evaluation of customer business problems and the development of solutions and working with the vendor to meet business requirements also ensuring the product backlog capturing and maturity. Person would be responsible for working with architects to define the data strategy for the department and play a leading role in its implementation. Manager BA is supposed to carry out data analysis and help downstream platforms with data understanding.
The successful candidate will take responsibility for addressing and supporting the UK and European business projects for new and existing products and functionality initiatives across our systems. The role will encompass the full spectrum of business analyst activities through the full project life cycle. Relationship management skills for the various business contacts for the area will be important to ensure a superior service to our clients is maintained.
Key Responsibilities
Understands complex business issues and has the ability to understand the technical implications associated with business requirements
Data Analysis and producing data mappings between various data and reporting platforms
Acting as Data owners, understanding end to end journey from business as we'll as data perspective.
Analysing the impact of upstream changes, in terms of data and communicating downstream impact as we'll.
Handle a demanding work environment and maintain a very high level of deliverable quality
Interact with all levels of the business community, seeking approval from all stakeholders of the projects
Must be able drive solution discussions and produce solution design documents
Define the scope of a business requirement, decide the approach and produce the specification.
Drive the analysis effort from start to end for a given area keeping various stakeholders in the loop and getting approvals/sign offs from them.
Assess and ensure that the solution being delivered is fit for purpose.
Obtaining agreement on business analysis deliverables and ensuring that they meet all the requirements of the business and tracking these across multiple systems groups
Working with business leads within the team to identify, define, and clarify the scope / issues in terms of complex business/systems requirements.
Functionality co-ordination across multiple system projects delivering common, re-usable functionality using service-oriented patterns
Acting as a proxy customer with the development teams, facilitating open communication between the customer & development team
Driving user acceptance criteria with the customer
Co-ordinate with onshore-offshore UK/India business analysts. Work with onshore-offshore UK/India development teams
Interact & work with third party partners and suppliers
Stay abreast of key emerging products / industry standards in the Business Analysis arena
Contribute to BA forum, lead process improvement initiatives
Experience and Qualifications
Minimum 10 to 12 years of IT experience in Investment Management/Investment Banking domain.
At least 8 years of proven experience as a Business Analyst.
B. Tech / B.E. or MBA is preferred.
Essential Skills / Experience
Should have experience of dealing with senior Stakeholders, covering different geographies
Experience of business process re-engineering, analysis, user requirement gathering, gap analysis
Data Analysis and producing data mappings between various data and reporting platforms
Should have experience of working in defining Data Taxonomies & Data Modelling skills
Should have experience producing functional specifications documents (FSDs)
Should have experience producing Solution Design Specifications by working closely with architects and developer community
Ability to progress the analysis and drive decisions to close open issue through discussions with multiple stakeholders.
Must be strong in translating business requirements to technical resources (internal and external) in supporting the project
Delivery and results focused
Strong customer awareness & business focus
Strong documentation skills of standard SDLC artefacts like SRA/SDS etc
Fair idea of Agile methodology, familiar with Stories - requirements artefact used in Agile
Must possess very good working knowledge of database technologies to query standard databases like Oracle
