Position: Business System’s Analyst
Location: Boston, MA Area

Details:
Business System’s Analyst - Portfolio Accounting - Investment Management - Boston, MA Area - $120K+ DOE
Base + Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits
Local Candidates only - No sponsorship
Stable work history required

Company:
Successful, smaller, and growing, Boston based Investment Management firm
with $45B+ under management

Position Responsibilities - Summary:
As a member of the IT group, this position will play a key role in the
support of the portfolio accounting and other investment operations systems.
It is a highly visible position with exposure to many business units in a
dynamic quantitative investment management firm. The position requires a
high level of direct interaction and collaboration with end users, excellent
analytical and communication skills, and outstanding domain knowledge.

Detailed Responsibilities:
- Lead components of major initiatives (e.g. the accurate scope and
planning of a project including establishing milestones and implementation
plans)
- Drive efforts that identify business requirements and writes
specifications for new/revised systems based on knowledge of business needs
and working closely with senior department managers and key department
members Identify and document scope changes escalating appropriately to
project manager for action.
- Participate in functional and change impact analysis for existing
business processes and develops recommendations for improvements and
enhancements
- Conducts business and systems requirements analysis at code and
data level such as data mapping, and data conversion analysis
- Perform complex data analysis in support of standing and ad-hoc
customer requests
- Work with Business and Technology Departments to identify data
lineage analysis, source and destination requirements for applications
- Analyze the business processes in terms of activities (tasks),
workflow and dataflow.
- Facilitates the creation of testing documentation and manages the
testing process on projects.
- Research, track and communicate business issues and software
defects related to projects and level 2 applications support.
- Participates and supports post implementation process including
end user training
- Working with Program Manager, define standards for future business
analysis efforts.

Required Skills and Competencies:
The candidate should have a minimum of 5-8 years of experience working as an
IT business systems analyst in the financial services industry. In addition,
the position requires:

- BS degree in MIS, BA or related discipline
- Strong understanding of global investment portfolio accounting and
portfolio reporting
- Strong understanding of investment processes, accounting and
performance measurement systems, workflows and data
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong business and technical writing skills
- Experience in managing small to medium scale projects or
subcomponents of a major project
- Senior level competency, project management communication and
evaluation skills (e.g. options analysis, status reports, minutes,
presentations and GAP analysis)
- Ability to lead project meetings with users.
- Ability to effectively handle multiple priorities
- Solid MS Project /Visio and MS Office application skills
- Working knowledge of SQL (Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase)
- Experience gathering and documenting business requirements from
users.
- Experience with systems integration in the financial services
industry.
- Experience with systems development lifecycle methodology.
- Experience with portfolio accounting systems such as HiNet,
performance measurement systems such as StatPro and FactSet and fixed income
systems such as Aladdin.
- Previous direct responsibility for writing structured business
requirements, functional specifications, test plans and test cases.
- The Business Systems Analyst must comprehend and organize a
collection of business requirements and communicate those requirements to
application developers.
- Negotiate technical and non-technical solutions that both satisfy
the business user and conform to the technical architecture.

Contact Information:
Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354
Email - garywright AT prodigy DOT net
WEB Site - www.wrightassociates.org