Technical Business Analyst (ACBS v8 Production Support)

Role: Technical Business Analyst (ACBS v8 Production Support)

Location: New York City, NY 10019 (only local to NY/NJ)

Visa: USC/GC/GC-EAD/OPT-EAD/H4-EAD

Hire Mode: Contract

Client uses ACBS 8.0 for managing Loan and Letter of Credit originations for bi-lateral, syndicated, sub-participation and agent deals.

With-in clients IT department, the business analyst will be responsible for the support of the ACBS application.

Support includes responding to user inquires, troubleshooting and researching issues, liaising with other IT Teams, and working with the FIS vendor.

The candidate will also manage enhancements via sourcing user requirements, creating business requirement documents, performing unit and integration testing, coordinating user acceptance testing, designing solutions and workflows for business processes, and working on specific sub-projects all involving ACBS 8.0.

Context:

The technical business analyst will join an IT Team responsible for supporting ACBS 8.0. Support includes addressing user requests and delivering system enhancements.

The analyst will liaise between the Commercial Back Office and IT Support Team development staff.

Details:

Responsible for the functional knowledge

- Liaise with business line contacts for clarification and understanding of requirements

- Analyze functional impacts considering technical constraints in collaboration with technical teams

- Prepare and present functional aspects of changes/evolutions to developers

- Draft detailed functional specifications/users stories for developers, in line with general specifications or list of requirements provided by project manager / Business Analysts

- Support the technical development team in any functional aspects.

- Organize and keep up to date detailed functional documentation

Responsible for the functional testing of development

- Develop tests strategy in coordination with project manager / Business Analysts

- Conduct continuous testing in development environment for development monitoring

- Write unit test cases and functional test cases for system verification

- Follow the user acceptance test and coordinate the prioritization with project manager

Experience

Knowledge of ACBS v8.0 Servicing application is a MUST

5 years+ as a Business Analyst in Financial Industry

Technical experience to be comfortable with data models, hands-on with SQL

Hands-on experience as liaison function with end-users

Thorough experience in functional testing and validation of development

Required skills

Strong technical skills in tests methodology

Strong organizational and communication skills

Strong ability to analyze and summarize

Self-sufficient and pro-active in sourcing information

Strong sense of confidentiality

Credit Risk, Counterparty Risk, Financial product, Regulatory reporting, Accounting, Back-office processes

Project cycle methodology

SQL, XML, data warehouse

Experience with Business Object would be appreciated

Experience on additional ACBS components such as Datamart, Notifications, APIs, ATS is appreciated

Highly motivated, creative problem solver and team player