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Requirement Phase
·   Gather business requirements through a variety of techniques (e.g. workshops, work sessions and interviews)
·   Analyze business requirements to understand the business needs and determine how the application can best functionally fulfill those needs
·   Ensure requirements are detailed and can be supported by the technology and that the project team is developing a common understanding of requirements
·   Responsible for detailed functional specifications, ensuring that they combine knowledge of what the business wants with knowledge of how the application is built
·   Review specifications with the development team to ensure common understanding
·   Load requirements and specifications into Quality Center/ALM and create linkages between business and functional requirements
Design Phase
·   Validate that technical designs have been reviewed by the project team and conform to business requirements and the goals of the organization
Build and Test Phases
·   Confirm test cases have the appropriate granularity and have traceability back to business requirements; Confirm that test cases are linked to specifications in Quality Center
·   During IST, support test case execution by the QA team, assisting with result validation and defect triage
·   During UAT, perform defect investigation and resolution
·   Provide assessments of Change Requests after investigation by the team; Responsible for the creation of appropriate re-testing regimes and regression testing of such changes
·   During Implementation, participate in the implementation planning activities

Must have skille

·   7+ years of IT Business Analysis experience
·   Excellent core systems analyst skills
·   Working knowledge of project management methodologies and associated project life cycle deliverables
·   Expert at writing detailed, actionable requirements and/or functional specifications
·   Capable of reviewing project deliverables for quality and delivery assurance
·   Proactive in learning the business processes, data flows, and systems functionality in order to support the
·   Business Analysts on the team and provide guidance/advice to business partners
·   Proficient in documenting use cases, process flow diagrams (i.e., swim lane diagrams)
·   Knowledge of one or more Corporate Finance functions (e.g., Regulatory Reporting, General Ledger, MIS, Reference Data)
·   Strong data query and analysis skills, including proficiency in SQL
·   Expert-level skills with data manipulation tools, such as Access and Excel
·   Proficient in use of HP Quality Center/ALM
·   Investment banking product knowledge – bonds, equities, debt securities, derivatives, and loans.
·   US Regulatory Reporting knowledge and an understanding of Accounting terminology and practices is desirable
·   Experience with Data Warehousing/ETL technologies and working knowledge of basic data warehousing design concepts