Position Details:
Client: Banking
Job Title:Business Analyst - Operational Risk (Asst Vice President)
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33394
Duration: 6.5 Months + Possible extension
Schedule: Shift hours: Basic Business Hours
Start Date: ASAP

• Responsible for owning and contributing to projects throughout all phases of the project lifecycle e.g. Requirements Specification, UAT Testing and Sign Off, Rollout and Post Production Checkouts
• Requirements Specification: Understand, create, review, and enhance global Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) and Feed Specification Documents to meet the needs of the enhancement or feed onboarding.
• Act as liaison between Technology and Business Stakeholders. Working knowledge of relational databases (tables, datatypes, joins) and experience of manipulating and working with large datasets is essential.
• UAT Testing: Develop and execute UAT test plans that will ensure business requirements have been met / create test scripts including specific test cases and expected results
• UAT Sign off: Manage and collaborate with users at various levels within Business to take them through the UAT testing process and successfully obtain sign off during the UAT phase
• Rollout and Post Production Checkouts: Act as point of contact for Technology partners and contribute to project rollout and post production checkouts to ensure successful project closure
• Documentation: Create and update Alps C&C documentation including: Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), mapping specs, user stories, extraction criteria, RAIDLog, etc.
• Develop SME level knowledge of ALPS reporting and workflow platforms to share knowledge, provide training, and assist to end users.
• Identify areas of inefficiency and implement system and process improvements in the spirit of continuous improvement
• Understanding and utilize standard processes, design and testing tools throughout project development life cycle
• Face-off with Operations, IT, Internal Audit, Line Control to a senior level as a representative
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with exquisite attention to detail in order to facilitate decision making.

• Minimum 5 years experience as a Business analyst or in Investment Banking Operations or IT. Experience in operational risk and control is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work together with regional and global stakeholders to execute on program deliverables and share status updates
• Knowledge of Capital Markets Operations is a plus
• Comfortable analyzing data from numerous disparate source systems and large datasets
• Ability to facilitate global calls and manage various stakeholders at all levels of seniority
• Ability to build consensus and collaborate with others. History of success working in a team environment.
• Flexibility to handle multiple tasks and changing priorities.
• Monitor tight deadlines or unexpected requirement changes
• Ability to multi-task and take ownership of projects and change initiatives
• Advanced MS Excel skills including use of Logical, Data and Text functions in order to manipulate and analyze large datasets
• Effective use of Word and PowerPoint to create succinct project documentation and senior management presentations
• Working knowledge of data warehouse and experience of MicroStrategy is highly desirable
• Working knowledge of JIRA
• QlikView Business Intelligence or Tableau knowledge is a plus
• Project Management and direct experience of all phases within project lifecycle (SCRUM,6 SIGMA knowledge very applicable)
• SQL experience is a plus