Wealth Management Business Analyst (Ifds)

Job#: 1348473
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Wealth Management Business Analyst
Apex Systems is a global IT services provider, and our staffing practice has an opening for a BA for a Wealth Management Team. We are looking for an individual with strong funds manufacturing experience, stakeholder management, and experience with IFDS (directly, or within a vendor relationship capacity).
Client: Wealth Management Company
Terms: 6-months, high likelihood of extension
Location: hybrid, 1-2 days a week in office - Toronto core
The ideal candidate will have:

• Direct experience with IFDS, or IFDS vendor experience
• Fund Manufacturing experience
• Strong Stakeholder Management experience

The Opportunity: As a member of the Wealth technology team, you will work with key stakeholders to align technology solutions with business strategies. Your focus will be to gather requirements from business units and to work with the technical team to develop solutions. You will take a strategic view of the application portfolio and establish a longer term vision for the evolution of applications to support the evolving business needs.
The job responsibilities include:

• Elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders and business users
• Contribute to the product vision, strategy and overall roadmap of the Wealth portfolio, in alignment with overall business strategy and stakeholder priorities. Break down strategic problems, analyzing information from various sources to make strategic recommendations.
• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Serving as a liaison between business stakeholders, users, vendors and technical teams
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team; creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
• Create and maintain a prioritized backlog of requirements; work with development teams to establish release plans to deliver this new functionality
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood

Requirements:

• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to quickly assimilate and apply new concepts, business models, and technologies.
• Good understanding of the relational database design and modeling, data queries and reporting.
• Highly organized with attention to detail and ability to deliver projects and “get it done”
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills and ability to take a leadership role when necessary
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business requirements into data models, data flows, functional and operational requirements.
• Strong ability to navigate ambiguity, overcome confusion and simplify complex situations
• You should be a highly driven and results oriented individual, comfortable in a dynamic, fast paced, and changing environment
• A bachelor’s degree in business, technology or related field or an MBA.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in business analysis in Wealth management industry, with back office exposure. Fund experience (administration, accounting) is strongly preferred.

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