Business Analyst Job Listing at Citadel Information Services, Inc. in New York, NY

Staffing/Employment

Business Analyst supporting Financial Accounting for both area-specific and firm-wide projects that impact FA, primarily for US Regulatory Reporting.

? Develop business and functional requirements as per the defined format and obtain timely sign-off by all the respective parties.

? Manage and actively participate in and contribute to all phases of the project lifecycle, including business case development, cost benefit analysis, requirements gathering, test planning and execution and implementation.

? Work closely with the Users, line management, and IT groups throughout the various phases of the project.

? Prepare and maintain all project related status reports, chair project meetings, engage other departments and groups, as necessary, and manage all issues and risks through to resolution

? Establish strong working relationships with the Line and IT staff.



Manage project lifecycle using Operational Excellence/Lean Sigma methodology (DMAIC)

? Defining project scope, goal statement, opportunity statement, project plan and team (Define Phase).

? Meet with line personnel to collect data and document current processes including business and systems flows. (Measure Phase)

? Review data and determine root causes (Analysis Phase)

? Define new processes with users. Create proposed business and systems flows and validate. (Improve Phase)

? Develop plan and processes to continually monitor performance (Control Phase)



For Systems-related fixes, in addition to above:

? Develop formal business and functional requirements and obtain sign off by all interested parties

? Validate IT functional specifications against business and functional requirements

? Work with IT during their design and development.

? Develop test approach-define test cases, test data, expected results and perform testing itself

? Implement into Production

? Manage Day 2 enhancements

? Manage and prioritize Day 2 Book of Work