SEI has a challenging career opportunity for a Business Analyst. This position requires a foundation of business knowledge in the financial services industry, and the ability to work in a team environment. You should be adaptable, possess experience in Wealth Management, and demonstrate the ability to understand financial services business requirements.
What you will do:
- Perform business analysis and coordinate involvement of SMEs, users, internal and external stakeholders in order to gather requirements
- Ability to critically think through business requirements into order define product requirements and deliver testing criteria for sprint and release planning
- Articulate key decisions, open issues, case studies, workflow and functional requirements to bring clarity to cross functional teams.
- Proactively recommend innovations and modifications that are in compliance with industry requirements and are consistent with corporate objectives and goals to improve operational processes, systems, policies and procedures.
- Drive quality assurance with creation and execution of acceptance tests as needed. Prepare test plans and execute component or integration testing.
What we need from you:
- Bachelors degree from an accredited College or University, and/or equivalent relevant experience.
- A minimum of 1 year of experience in related business domain or background in Business analysis.
- Ability to work comfortably with a wide range of people and skill sets, including architects, project managers, analysts, designers and developers
- Detail oriented with the ability to organize and prioritize tasks to ensure timely delivery of the Sprints/PSI s.
- Grasp of good user experience design principles and business trade-offs
- Proficiency in data analysis tools, business intelligence software and potential programming languages would be a plus
What we would like from you:
- A willingness to work a flexible schedule to accommodate business and travel requirements
- Ability to collaborate effectively with other disciplines including business analysts, technical leads, senior level managers and project managers
- Advanced written and oral communication skills are a must
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward project completion
- Ability and desire to work in an iterative development model which emphasizes speed and proactive decision making
- Excellent time-management skills and an ability to multi-task or work on multiple projects concurrently
- Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
- Proven ability to apply situational leadership concepts in a matrix organization.
- Familiarity with systems scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of the various members of the team
- Proven self-starter with track record of setting goals and delivering results