Business Analyst - Dublin City Centre

Firstaff Personnel

Dublin City Centre

Business Analyst. Salary: €50-55K. Location: Dublin City Centre. Our client is a global RegTech platform delivering a set of comprehensive and complementary technology-enabled regulatory solutions that serve compliance professionals across the financial services industry. Position Scope: The Business Analyst is a key role within the client's engagement process with the successful candidate being responsible for the implementation of our client's strategic suite of products into their client base and for all aspects of the project lifecycle. Your core activity will centre on working onsite with their clients; defining client requirements for features or additions to our client's product suite, working closely with the Development team to ensure there is a complete understanding of the business requirements and appropriate mapping of business requirements to a technical design as well as mapping of requirements to test cases. The role will play a central part in ensuring that requirements are specified, developed and tested correctly. Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate will be working in the fund administration or asset management industry today in a back, middle or front-office role, or in a service provider company supplying technology and/or services to that that industry. In addition, the ideal candidate will be very comfortable working with fund related data that would be found in an institutional client report or on a retail factsheet. Duties and Responsibilities: Documenting client driven business requirements for new features and enhancements to existing product functionality. The business requirements must be complete, of excellent quality and represent industry best practice in their implementation. Review and signoff of functional specifications to ensure technical solution meets business requirements. Employing consistent business analysis methodologies to identify data sources incorporating frequencies, formats and data fields. Strong input to creation of a data dictionary and data model in collaboration with the client and internal development teams. Identification of appropriate business rules to validate the data and documentation of same. Communication and discussion with key stakeholders to ensure the business need is understood across the project team. Input to and review of test cases to ensure all requirements of the feature will be correctly tested. Support where required the implementation and deployment of features with new clients. Input to the product roadmap. Mentoring of more junior business analysts within the Project's team. Assists with the maintenance of the Information security risk assessment program (incl. Business Impact Analyses, Information Risk Processes, Due Diligence and Compliance) throughout the entire organization. Key Attributes and Qualifications: At least 3 years of Business/Technical Analysis or related experience, preferably within a commercial software company or at least 3 years of experience working in back-office/ operational area(s) of an Asset Manager (or TPA. Educated to degree level in economics, information technology or computer science or equivalent experience. Client facing experience. Experience of security master or data warehouse projects, and/or experience of regulatory reporting projects. Financial Regulation expertise/knowledge required. Good understanding of security and portfolio position data – ideally with a broad exposure to derivatives. Experience working with technical and business teams to translate internal and external business needs to drive functional and technical requirements. Strong analytical and requirements documentation skills. Demonstrated excellence in written and oral communications, including strong presentation skills. Experience with data modelling and data mapping. Experience in mentoring with a view to driving the team to position of being best in class. Proactive and eager to learn and contribute to new and emerging technologies, processes, and products. Candidates with knowledge of the funds industry and the related data will be preferred. *NB: All applicants CVS will be reviewed and should your skillset match our client's requirements, we will contact you via email / mobile. We are also happy to consider you for other open opportunities within Firstaff. If however, you object to us holding your data on file, please acknowledge via email by return. Please see our Privacy Policy below * Privacy Policy. Contact: Mary O Rourke. Senior Recruitment Consultant. Firstaff Personnel Consultants Ltd. 85/86 Grafton Street. Dublin 2. Tel: 003531-6797766. Mobile: 086 2632535. Email:maryo@firstaff.ie. Web Page: https://www.firstaff.ie/it-jobs-dublin/ LinkedIn:https://ie.linkedin.com/in/maryorourke. This job originally appeared on RecruitIreland.com.

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