Senior Associate, Business Analyst - Renaissance Risk

SALARY: $95k plus 10% bonus

LOCATION: CHICAGO

Hybrid 3 days onsite/2 days remote

You will partner to both business & technology teams. You will support or develop test plans and test cases and participate in test results. 1-2 years pricing and risk systems financial services including pricing managing risk financial marker liquidity derivatives equities interest rate community products confluence Jira Visio

Responsible for discovering, synthesizing, and analysing information from a variety of internal and external sources, including tools, processes, documentation, and stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a proven change agent that demonstrates the ability to solve complex problems through logical, digestible solutions that deliver key value to our stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a partner to both the business and the technology teams.
• Identify scope gaps and missing requirements by acquiring an in depth understanding of current state (ie, Legacy system) and future state.
• Identify product team dependencies and plan for resolution.
• Prepare for and lead requirement workshop discussions with vendor, stakeholders and product owners.
• Lead requirement review sessions with product owners and stakeholders to verify the completeness and adequacy of requirements and use cases; assist in the development of acceptance criteria.
• Support or develop test plans and test cases; participate in test results verification.
• Assist in developing strategies for knowledge transfer and maintenance of risk systems.
• Participate in the final UAT following product deployment.

Program Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally to analyze and define key stakeholder business needs.
• Perform requirements analysis, story decomposition, system integration analysis, and data flow design.
• Regularly engage in agile activities including sprint planning and backlog grooming. Act as an advisor to the Product owner regarding next steps and approvals.
• Build high quality user stories and acceptance criteria; work with scrum team to refine user stories.
• Provide requirement and design support to scrum team.
• Support development of user interface requirements and design by collaborating with UI/UX tools and teams.
• Support or develop test plans and test cases; participate in test results verification.
• Assist in building cross-team collaboration and define acceptance criteria for integrated components.
• Adhere to analysis best practices for epics and user stories.
• Assists in developing and maintaining policies, standards, guidelines and documentation to ensure that a

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Previous work experience (1-2 years) building and working with pricing and risk systems preferable
• Basic understanding of the financial services industry, including pricing, margins, collateral, financial, market, liquidity, and operational risks of broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, commercial banks, pension funds, and financial market utilities
• Financial products knowledge is a plus: basic understanding of markets and financial derivatives in equities, interest rate, and commodity products.
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and software development.
• Preferred business experience in clearinghouse activities.

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge and/or vested interest in different data management and visualization tools (SQL, Figma, Tableau, Business Objects, etc.)
• Knowledge and/or vested interest in complex data analytics supported by python and R.
• Experience Confluence and Jira.
• Experience Visio.