Associate/Vice President, Markit Trade Processing Business Analyst - White Plains
Role Summary
Markit Group seeks an experienced business analyst. The candidate should have experience with quality assurance, requirements gathering, functional requirements specifications, client data and environment onboarding, user testing, and product rollout. The position is based in our White Plains, NY office.
At Markit, you will work in a professional yet relaxed environment - with highly intelligent and capable colleagues - to create new financial products and support and enhance existing products for the OTC market. Our goal is, not only to meet, but to exceed the expectations of our clients, who include the majority of the top financial buy-side and sell-side firms in the world.
Duties and Accountabilities
- Produce detailed functional requirement specifications from existing systems, previous drafts, and SME interviews
- Conduct gap analyses
- Ensure consistency of specifications across sub-systems
- Provide input into user interface layouts and prepare mock-ups
- Analyze workflow and produce process flow diagrams
- Assist with test planning, execution and reporting, including writing, reviewing, and executing manual test scripts
- Coordinate system releases to ensure thorough testing and roll out to customers
- Write, revise, and edit client education, user, administrative, and support materials (user guides, quick reference guides, FAQs, training materials, online help)
- Conduct user training workshops as required
Business Competencies
- Previous experience as a business analyst
- Thorough understanding of the software development life-cycle
- Strong interviewing skills
- Ability to manage small teams
- Expertise in MS Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint
- Bachelor’s degree
- Understanding of OTC Deriatives a plus
- Ability to work with business stakeholders
- Expertise using HTML, Flash, and Help authoring tools
Personal Competencies
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Strong analytical and organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Availability to travel to Markit’s other offices: NYC (Midtown Manhattan), London (our Headquarters), Amsterdam, etc.
- Flexibility and attitude to achieve tight deadlines
- Proven ability to work independently
The Contact
Please apply with CV and covering letter to careers.na@markit.com citing "Associate/Vice President, Markit Trade Processing Business Analyst" in your email.