Insight Investment is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join the Integrated Solutions product team, as we look to provide automation and efficiency to our portfolio management platform.
Make sure to read the full description below, and please apply immediately if you are confident you meet all the requirements.
As a Business Analyst within the team, the individual must be able to face off to both business and technology stakeholders, applying an organised and proactive approach. Tasks range from business requirement gathering and documentation, writing user stories, testing, handover to IT support teams, and occasionally, ad-hoc query handling and support tasks.
Role Responsibilities
* Work with the Product Owner and the business to develop and detail the product backlog in the form of epics and stories describing problems and expected outcomes, running refinement sessions with the development team.
* Mentor the existing junior Business Analyst on the team.
* Assist the Development Lead by providing support to the Developers and Testers on the team.
* Act as a communication channel between product owners, business owners, and the development team.
* Contribute to the planning and execution of system and acceptance testing.
* Undertake documentation to support the team's sprint activities.
* Build and maintain a good working relationship with the business representatives, working across teams and multiple sites.
Requirements
* Excellent working knowledge of fixed-income instruments and derivatives, including pricing, analytics, and trading and uses in portfolio management.
* Asset Management Industry experience, in a Portfolio Management Front Office role.
* Ability to apply suitable analytical approaches to requirements discovery, documentation, and collaborative solution delivery.
* Capture of user stories and artifacts in JIRA, Confluence, and Mural.
* Skills in collecting and interpreting data, analysing results to identify patterns and trends in data.
* Competent in working with data, ideally through REST APIs through Swagger, GraphQL, and SQL.
* Excellent stakeholder engagement and management experience with the ability to effectively communicate at a level and depth appropriate to the audience.
* Demonstrable experience of gathering requests and technical specifications.
* Experience working in Agile delivery teams using Scrum or Kanban, including participation in different Scrum ceremonies.
* A sense of personal responsibility and the drive to own problems, can work self-directed and independently to accomplish results.
* Provides assistance to developers and testers of the team. Pro-actively removing blockers to maximise team productivity.
* Creates an environment where individuals are encouraged and supported to achieve their goals.
* Promotes a positive team culture. Identifies and implements ways to improve teamwork. Builds effective relationships throughout the organisation.
Insight Investment is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at TalentAcquisition@InsightInvestment.com
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