My client, a leading asset management company, is looking for a Business Analyst to join their team. You will be required to have experience in the Asset Management/Investment Administration environment and act as a bridge between the business and the IT development teams. Duties:
- Responsible for the systematic and methodical investigation, analysis and documentation of all or part of a business area in terms of business functions and processes
- Perform business analysis tasks through specialisation in understanding the business usage of information technology and helping technology add value to the Investments business
- Responsible for developing and delivering system functionality and operational processes
- Ensuring the platform integrates with external software systems
- Identify and examine business needs and determine timely and effective solutions
- Manage the applications that integrate across business areas
- Comprehensive documentation of Test Plans and coordination of testing effort
- Document implementation plans and ensure successful implementation
- Conduct post implementation review
- Set up and facilitate workshops with stakeholders to identify business/system requirements
- Assist technical designers to understand the business requirements
- Provide input into the design, functional and non-functional discussions with the technical designers
- Project management of allocated tasks/projects
- Transfer product requirements to system architects
- Streamlining and re-engineering processes
- Guiding users in gathering systems requirements and designing/implementing new solutions
- Working with end users to capture and document business requirements
- Providing analytic support by coordinating data extraction from various databases
Requirements:
- BCom Informatics, BSC Degree or a relevant tertiary qualification
- Diploma in Business analysis preferred
- Business Analyst with at least 5 years’ experience in a CIS Management Company, Linked Investment Service Provider (LISP) and/or Asset Management arena (Front Office/Operations)
- Proven track record of implementation of systems and processes
- In-depth knowledge of the full end-to-end services, systems and processes required in a Linked Investment Service Provider (LISP) environment
- Understanding of systems interactions within the context of business process delivery
- i.e. workflow system, CRM, BPM, batch systems and data warehousing
- Financial markets and investment administration experience
- Beneficial Systems knowledge
- SQL, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Asset Management IM systems, Investment Management Retail systems, CRM systems, BPM systems