Senior Business Systems Analyst (Capital Markets)

Title:Capital Markets - Business Analyst - IT

Contract Duration: 9 months

Project: T+1 project - Looking for Business Analyst with development background on Prime Services Data Interface (PSDI) team in PACE group with good communication skills. PSDI is a central operational data store and data warehouse for the Prime Services transaction processing systems The role requires understanding of Securities Lending business with the ability to work within a team of Business Analysts and Developers and work closely with business users and vendor for deliverables.

Typical Day in Role

• Work closely with business stakeholders in the Prime Services business in understanding business requirements and work closely with vendor for deliverables.

• Analyze and document business and functional requirements as per business needs.

• Must be able to test and analyze data as part of data testing using various tools such as Microsoft Excel, SQL tools etc.

• Analyze and understand the deliverables as per business needs and work on the allocated tasks based on priority.

• Work closely with QA for testing vendor deliverables

• Work closely within the BA/Dev team and QA team as part of system testing.

• The role will provide this person with extensive opportunity to interact directly with securities lending sales-traders in Toronto, NYC, and London and will provide them with unique insight into how hedge funds & prime brokers operate.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 8 -10+ years of experience as a BSA (have BA skills+ technology skillsets such as SQL, data analysis, data extraction, etc.)

• 5+ years’ experience of using SQL on databases (including writing SQL queries) such as Oracle, Sybase etc.

• 3+ years’ experience with Securities Lending (within Prime Services) a requirement to understand data being analyzed. (Include products)

• Strong experience working Unix or Linux environment

• Understanding of Software design and software development lifecycle.

• Experience in testing and analyzing data as part of data analysis.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience with inventory management, rehypothecation processing a strong plus

• Experience with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visio a plus