Business Analyst Job at Collabera in Jersey City

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs.

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.

Job Description

• Acts as a liaison between client area and technical organization by planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of highly complex business problems to be solved with automated systems.
• Provides technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet business requirements.
• Works with user groups to provide training, resolve questions, assess user needs, and recommend changes.
• Prepares specifications for system changes.
• Recommends and initiates systems testing.
• Acts as an internal consultant within technology and business groups by using quality tools and process definition/improvement to re-engineer technical processes for greater efficiencies.
• Provides direction and guidance to less experienced staff.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of financial products and capital markets
• Knowledge of fixed income, equity, foreign exchange and commodity based derivatives, especially OTC derivatives;
• Knowledge of Sql or Perl
• Strong written, oral and interpersonal communications skills; Ability to communicate clearly and effectively across a globally dispersed team as well as with different business units to facilitate product development
• General knowledge of IT operations and mastery of industry standard project management practices and an in-depth understanding of SDLC, especially Agile methodologies and IT/Application Lifecycle management.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with a geographically dispersed group of business analysts, business users, developers, project managers, development managers, as well as senior technical leaders in a fluid environment to deliver high quality applications on time, to specification and within budget.
• Strong testing/QA/validation skills and experience are required
• CFA , FRM, PRMIA or other related risk management specific certification
• Knowledge of market risk (VaR methodologies and related metrics), Credit Risk and Counterparty Credit Risk,
• Experience of front and middle office analytical applications is desired
• Knowledge of Prime Brokerage, financing business, margin process and risk management methodology is a plus.

Additional Information

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