It Business Analyst

Primary Talent Partners has a 6-month contract opening for an IT Business Analyst with a multinational investment bank located in Jersey City, NJ. This is a hybrid position requiring 2-3 days onsite a week.
Job Description:
We are looking for a Business Analyst with banking regulatory knowledge and experience. The person should act as both Business Analyst and project manager, working with business and IT stakeholders
The primary function of role is to support, maintain and enhance an application called STAR. STAR is a trade processing system responsible for the deal capture of Interest Rates Derivatives, Futures, Bonds, MBS and Secondary Loans, and the subsequent passing of the trades through Middle Office to Back Office, to risk and to reporting systems. STAR is the backbone of the Rates Trade Processing IT suite.

• Over 2,000 regular users
• Booking over 1.5 million trades a month
• Users across Europe, the Americas and Asia

Ownership and Scope:

• Take ownership of projects and other mission critical assignments.
• Perform role of Project Manager and Business Analyst for Global Markets initiatives.
• Stay abreast of intricacies within bank's workflows & infrastructure across Global Markets.
• Provide subject matter expertise on Fixed Income Securities and regulatory workflows.
• Collaboration- Interface with Front office, Operations, IT, other functions and subject matter experts within the bank to understand & document business requirements.
• Analysis - Perform analysis, define specifications and design for the assignments.
• Be responsible for end-to-end implementation of functionality on the Fixed Income IT applications.
• Documentation - Create business user requirements documents, functional specs & test scripts.
• Workflow management - Manage tasks in Jira and contribute to running IT prioritization meetings with development team and business users.
• Testing and UAT - Perform & coordinate integration, regression & UAT testing.
• Run workshops/demo and arrange UAT for the stakeholders for the projects working and follow up on the action points.
• Reporting - Communicate & present solutions and risks to Business & ITO management.
• Provide effective and transparent reporting on all tasks and issues to management.
• Regulatory - Ensuring adherence to all relevant compliance and regulatory policies.
• Conduct-Mentor & share knowledge with team on topics to broaden the expertise and reduce the dependency.
• Present a comprehensive commitment to quality, with timely & functional deliveries.
• Show accountability and Commitment to continuous improvement. Embody a proactive, positive attitude and portray team spirit and collaboration across teams.

We are looking for candidates with following skills:

• Working in Scrum or another Agile environment
• Strong technical and problem solving skills
• High level of motivation
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work with other teams in remote locations and autonomously in New York
• Experience of technical support for STAR users, plus IT teams that interface with STAR
• Proactive and flexible approach to dealing with challenges

• Fixed Income business analysis experience, preferably experience in Client regulatory workflow is desirable
• Knowledge of SQL, XML, FIX messaging

Primary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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