Position Details  

Client: Banking  

Title: Business Analyst - Risk Management   

Location: New York, NY 10013 (Hybrid) 

Duration: 6 months + Possible extension  

Schedule: Shift hours: Basic Business Hours  

Start Date: ASAP 

Job Description:  

• The Senior Business Lead Analyst is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business.  

• Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness.  

• There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise.  

• Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. 

• Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. 

• Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business.  

• Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family. 

Responsibilities: 

• Drive the overall strategic vision for the ERM Portal as an enterprise software both as a part of and beyond the Enterprise Risk Management sphere 

• Coordinate with business leads and senior pillar business leads to define requirements and drive adoption in a uniform manner 

• Meet with upper management and liaisons to define requirements and enhancements for CRO Dashboards and Attestation sign offs 

• Lead cross-cutting meetings with key stakeholders, outlining takeaways and action items with appropriate follow-up 

• Gathering and documenting business requirements 

• Developing individual project artifacts as necessary including Business Requirements Documentation (BRD’s), Functional Requirements Documentation (FRD’s), test planning and scenario documents for user acceptance testing (UAT), project plans as required for all key technical deliveries. 

• Ability to baseline an existing enterprise software and develop a strategic vision for future quarters as well as a long term BAU steady state 

• Day-to-day management of individual project responsibilities including milestone setting, task and actions management, co-ordination and execution of plan within required timelines and to stakeholder quality expectations. 

• Foster and maintain relationships with business stakeholders, support, testing and development team members 

• Identify key project risks, whether stated or not, and manage to resolution or escalate accordingly 

• Has the ability to operate independently on a day-to-day basis, using sound judgement to escalate as needed 

• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members. 

Qualifications: 

• 6-10 years’ experience in a related role. 

• must be extremely organized, motivated and a self-starter 

• Track record as a Business Analyst within the Financial Services/Investment Banking industry. 

• Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to facilitate discussions 

• Ability to quickly grasp and master new concepts / requirements and related product / functional knowledge 

• Experience of working with Agile Methodologies and Tools 

• Ability to work under pressure and manage tight deadlines 

• Ability to learn/understand some technical implications of system design 

• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative 

• Knowledge of the SDLC