Job description

Contract roles are geared toward independent professionals interested in temporary or project-based work.

Sia Title: Project Consultant (Exempt Contractor)

Project Title: IT Business Analyst-Summit

Level: Mid-Senior

Project Length: This is a temporary position with an expected duration of 6 months

Project Hours: 40 hours/week

Location: Hybrid- NY, New York

The expected compensation for this contract is $200k per year. The exact pay rate will vary depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to skills, experience, and location.

Key Responsibilities: One of our premier clients is seeking an IT Business Analyst with Summit experience. This contractor will manage several evolutions or project aimed at:

• Deploying new instruments
• Implementing and improving Profit and Loss, Hedge and market data processes
• Implementing and improving settlement, confirmation and clearing workflows
• Implementing regulatory reporting and maintaining quality of the data
• Remediating the quality of data Identify and collect irregularities in business operations procedures and propose changes and new methodologies
• Supporting Fixed Income, Treasury and Credit activities as well as back-office stakeholders by addressing functional issues/questions
• Responsible for centralizing the user requests; coordinate with New York and Paris Head Office Business Analysts and IT teams; liaises with support functions to ensure all impacts are properly identified.
• Provide close collaboration with the user representatives (traders, sales, and operations) to gather business requirements, including the identification of any potential issue or functional omissions; define and document the business requirements.
• Author detailed functional specifications for IT development teams.
• Development of user test cases and validate test results during user acceptance testing, training with Summit end-users.
• Coordinate the go live and ensure proper system behavior.
• Provide Project scoping and planning, progress reporting, identification and management of issues/risks and communications.
• Responsible for quick resolution of day-to-day issues on Summit (booking, pricing, market data, straight through processing, settlement, reporting, accounting…)
• Monitor the trade workflow and make sure statements and regulatory reporting are accurately produced.