The Application Development Business Group Manager is responsible for providing authoritative sources of securities indicative data to our clients across the organization, through implementing state of the art technologies and operational processes which promote the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of product, pricing, account and corporate action data. SMC BA team is tasked with the enhancement to the system including integration of vendor feeds, data model enhancement and updates to existing data from vendors. This may involve analyzing multiple data sets manually or engineering automated solutions. The overall objective of this role is to understand business needs & conduct data analysis

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Working experience of 12 years minimum as Business Analyst in financial sector
• Experiences in managerial/leadership positions
• Strong leadership skills.
• Strong background in financial reference data and capital markets
• Strong SQL knowledge required (able to query data, analyze and troubleshooting) past working relationship with development and other teams
• Strong Data analysis and Mapping skills
• Experience/understanding of business process reengineering and business modeling concepts, systems development lifecycle
• Strong analytical skills and writing skills, to include solid experience in writing functional and technical specifications
• Experience utilizing various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Agile (JIRA etc.)
• Comprehensive knowledge of the Testing Lifecycle with SIT, UAT, and Production

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Experience working with major vendor data providers (i.e., Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, Markit)
• Experience with vendor product implementation
• Data Oriented with an excellent attention to detail
• Must possess good communication skills with the ability to be assertive
• Ability to focus on high quality work while under pressure

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred
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MOST RELEVANT SKILLS

Please see the requirements listed above.
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OTHER RELEVANT SKILLS

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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• Financial Data Modeling Capabilities
• Data Analysis for complex system
• Reverse engineering functional specifications from data
• Work closely with End Users/Clients to understand Business Process/Industry Standards/Regulatory Mandate requirements.
• Work closely with IT and Operations partners
• Work with external data vendors (i.e., Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, Markit, etc) and standards organizations
• Able to execute projects Independently
• Conduct Systems Integrated Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Create Function Specification Documents (FSD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), and test plans
• Mentor and coaching lower-level analysts