Financial Services Business Analyst

Project Consulting Group is actively hiring Sr. Business Analysts to liaise between Business and IT to deliver business driven/IT enabled solutions allowing clients to meet their customers’ requirements. We are looking for “High Competence | High Character | Low Ego” leaders who are experienced, knowledgeable, passionate about their field, and eager to deliver value to our clients.

Our ideal candidate possesses:

• Background in Financial Services, Brokerage, Asset Management, IRA's, Managed Accounts, or Insurance and Annuities.
• Strong time management, communication, organizational, and leadership skills
• Able to do hands on work alongside teams

Primary Responsibilities:

• Facilitate interviews and requirement sessions to define, document, and prioritize business and user requirements.
• Perform analysis to determine which systems and applications are impacted by changes.
• Develop user acceptance test plan, test conditions, and the user acceptance test cases/scripts.
• Track record of successful completion of business analysis activities and deliverables (as is process flows, to-be process flows, business and user requirements, data dictionary, business rules, use cases).
• Analyze project performance, complete cost benefit analysis and recommend optimal solutions.
• Communicate with stakeholders outlining status, risks, issues, and action plans.
• Read and review design document of requirements.
• Translate business needs and rules into business requirements.
• Produce clear and concise requirements through requirements elicitation, documentation and management.
• Assist with project execution by providing business requirements, tests, and implementation plans.
• Act as a liaison through lifecycle of project.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• 5+ years of Business Analyst experience
• 1-3 years of Financial Services Experience
• FINRA series certifications are a plus but do not need to be current.
• Experience with Beta, Broadridge, or Phase 3 and working knowledge of Visio and Quality Center.
• Experience with Mutual Funds, Fees and Commissions, Insurance & Annuities, Front Office, Middle Office or Back Office
• Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and Microsoft Outlook knowledge
• Experience in the front office prime brokerage capacity dealing directly with clients
• Competent in adapting to changing environment and ambiguous situations.
• Attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize, work independently and manage multiple tasks.
• Thoughtfully lead and facilitate decision making.
• Able to develop and manage relationships and drive strategic thinking.

Please Note:

• This is a full-time position. Candidates must be eligible to work as Full-Time W-2 employees of PCG. Sub-contracting is not available for this position.
• This position includes a competitive compensation package which includes salary, hourly compensation and full benefits.
• Candidates must be able to attend on-site, face-to-face interviews in Minnesota on 24 to 48 hours notice.