Business Analyst

Description:

Platforms include post-trade securities and corporate actions processing solutions providing single platform trade flow management and custody and investment accounting solution across business lines and geographies. Also, providing end-to-end automation of corporate actions and income processing, from announcement capture and validation, to complete downstream processing. Other supporting solutions include web-based self-service platform that enables front-office, middle-office and end-customer users to seamlessly interact with their post-trade environment.
A self-service business analytics application sitting on top of these, that enables operations to seamlessly interact with data.

From the reference data side, there is Managed Corporate Actions(MCA) service which is a best-in-class centralized source of validated corporate action announcements for nearly three million equities, fixed income, and structured finance securities across global markets. MCA services customers as a single source that streamlines operations for the collection, validation and dissemination of corporate actions. It also provides unlimited access to corporate action data and allows customers to view full details in real time, including event-level data, dates, options, terms and conditions and restrictions.

Position summary:
The Business Analyst role is one of the most important roles in any client implementation. S&P Global has a requirement for an experienced Business Analyst who can further enhance and evolve the post trade securities and corporate actions suite of products.

Business Analyst works with various stakeholders involved in the project, works closely with the Product Managers and act as the SPOC for development and Quality teams to deliver product enhancements.

Business Analyst is responsible to finalize scope, identifying gaps, defining client requirements as well as assisting the client in definition of their test suites & acceptance criteria. The candidate should be able to understand the existing business process of a client and how to define target state operational process onto the platform, based on which he/she then design and implement the most optimal product configuration for the client.

The candidate will be expected to work with teams in Dublin, New York, Dallas, London, Singapore, Noida, and Gurgaon.
The role requires the candidate to have excellent management skills, written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational / coordination skills, and strong analysis skills. The successful candidate will be process oriented and have a good understanding of product development lifecycle. The candidate should be comfortable in a fast-paced environment and be flexible to adapt to changes.

Duties & accountabilities

Ability to build & maintain strong relationships with all internal & external client stakeholders

Understand the underlying business, strategic direction, implementation & product usage of assigned client/s

Work with the client to define the most optimal future state operational process and related product configuration

Elicit requirements, identify solutions & deliver well defined functional specification documents

Manage scope by providing innovative solutions and challenging all new client requirements and change requests, while ensuring that client gets the required business value

Work closely with product & engineering teams to analyze and design functional enhancements

Ensure requirements are communicated correctly to development and testing teams

Support post release queries from clients, operations, and support teams

Provide onsite product consultancy and assist the client with acceptance criteria gathering and support throughout the project life-cycle

Travel will be required

Education and experience

Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Computer Science or Information Technology

3 - 7 years of relevant professional experience

Prior experience in Capital Markets, Post Trade automation, Corporate Actions preferred

Strong Analytical skills

Ability to work independently and in a team, proactive

Understanding and experience of the Agile software development process and overall project life cycle. DevOps knowledge will be a plus