Job Title:  Business Analyst II (Ref Code: 013113-KATFOR-IO35-E-SAN)

Location:  Washington, DC

Duration:  Long Term

Visa Type: GC/USC/EAD

Job Description:

Required Skills:

The candidate should posses

-7+ years experience in Financial Services IT out of which 3+ years as project lead is a plus

-Excellent understanding of General Ledger, Sub-Ledger, Chart of Accounts and accounting principles

-Experience with loans transactions and its accounting

-Experienced in collecting user requirements from different stakeholders

-Experienced in analyzing and documenting Business Process Model

-Experienced in documenting Use cases and Functional Specs

-Excellent communication skills written, verbal, and presentation skills.

-Ability to lead and facilitate discussions in large groups

-Experienced in managing test execution

-Experienced in recording, tracking and reporting resolving issues

-Ability to guide and work with multiple functional and technical teams

-Ability to juggle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

Desired Skills:

-Familiarity with financial applications, such as ACBS (Loans system), Investran (Equity system), Back-Office, Private Equity Applications, etc

-Experience with internal controls and IT controls and compliance is a plus

-Experience with financial COTS implementation is a plus

-CPA would be preferred

Terms of Reference

 

Project Background

ACBS Accounting Indicator project is to enhance Loan Accounting System (ACBS and ACBS datamart) to allow accounting of following Loan related investment products-

-Debt Securities Fair Valued through Other Comprehensive Income

-Debt Securities Fair Valued

-Fair Value option Loans

Duties and Responsibilities:

 

1.Assess business needs-

Gather and document business requirements, functional specs and use cases

Assess overall project requirements, business needs, pain points and areas of process improvement

Understand and document business process models

Conduct business process analysis meetings with business users and document in detail system processes in diagrammatic and textual format

Develop and document understanding of the system processes and data flows

Perform data analysis

Gain an understanding of existing systems functionality, compare current/envisioned business processes to system functionality, and document gaps

Create as-is and to-be process models and associated information/control flows to represent business processes for the area under analysis

Engage System Analysts and system owners to identify and document systems specific requirements

Collaborate with QA lead to ensure Testing Strategy covers all Business Requirements

Document discussions (meeting minutes) and circulate to the group and obtain sign off to ensure all the participants are on the same page with regards to any issues

2.Conduct prioritization

Formulate well defined user requirements tightly linked to overall project goals to limit scope creep

Create implementation approach in logical chunks based on criticality and priority

Manage the defined scope and present change request to the users for approvals.

3.Establish conceptual solutions

Provide inputs in developing solution architecture and design

Assess dependencies, potential issues and risks

4.Work with ACBS consultant

Work with ACBS consultant in understanding proposed changes being implemented in ACBS

Capture institutional knowledge about ACBS system and the changes being implemented

Create more detailed document of the understanding gathered from ACBS consultant

Perform impact analysis on other IFC systems due to changes being implemented in ACBS

5.Provide ongoing guidance to development teams

Provide clarifications to development team

Help Testing team in developing Test Cases

6.Support PM and Project team

Assist and provide back-up to project manager

Provide inputs for maintaining the project plan and schedule

Participate in status meetings and help prepare status reports - highlighting issues and constraints that would impact timely delivery of work program items.

Review IFCs policies, procedures and practices to determine specifications and requirements for any customization

Analyze and document dependencies, if any

Help develop UAT test scenarios and UAT test cases with the help of business users

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