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Business Analyst/Project Manager

Our direct client, dynamic growing financial services in Stamford is looking for a strong business analyst/project manager with financial industry experience. This position is for BA/PM in an application development group. You are responsible for leading the requirements, design, development, implementation and support of software applications to support business initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with the business in requirement discussions to ensure our solutions address business needs
• Work with key stakeholders from both business and IT to support As Is and To Be business process engineering
• Translation of business processes and needs into specifications and creating appropriate system documentation
• Work closely with developers to ensure successful transformation of business requirements into technical design / solution
• Consult across teams to receive input into operational delivery, planning and cross project alignment
• Work across internal teams to ensure a consistent and complete requirements definition is completed prior to work beginning.
• Define new software and/or document requirements by analyzing client, regulatory or internal requirements; constructing workflow diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications.
• Recommend improvements or products by writing analysis documents utilizing comparative analysis, revenue forecasting and SWOT analysis.
• Provide references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation; training client end users on software functionality.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in gathering user and functional requirements analysis and the technical skills to translate into functional design
• Ability to author lifecycle documentation (e.g. User Requirements Specification, Functional Specifications)
• Experience with software development methodologies
• Excellent presentation, meeting facilitation and communications skills
• Highly desired: background in data analysis with an understanding of information flow methods (CRUD) and master data management principles including data standards and master data governance
• Ability to read and understand and analyze industry trends along with build-buy-partner approach to validate business cases.
• Any prior software development experience is a BIG plus

Job ID: 4692