Business Analyst - R&D
Location: New York
Apply To: careers@wallstreetsystems.com
Wall Street Systems (Wallstreet) provides functionally rich, integrated and scalable solutions for improved workflow, control and overall productivity for corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, FX trading and global back office operations. Wallstreet is the market leader in FX trade processing and through its award-winning products, including Wallstreet Suite, Wallstreet Treasury, Wallstreet FX and Wallstreet BackOffice, the company processes millions of transactions, aggregating to trillions of dollars, every day.
With a 20 year heritage, Wallstreet has an outstanding reputation for quality and responsive service, and prides itself on helping its clients achieve long lasting benefits and results. Its 500 employees service over 300 banking, corporate and central bank clients, operating out of 12 offices worldwide. The company is a privately held corporation, and is majority owned by Warburg Pincus, a global private equity investor.
Job Description
The Business Analyst will work within the R&D group, as a member of a software development team, focused on Interest Products, Futures, Credit / Risk, and Accounting applications.
The analyst will have up-to-date expertise of financial markets and a good understanding of day to day activities in the front, middle and back office functions of a bank.
The development team acts a centre of expertise for supporting the core application and delivering improving functionality. The Business Analyst will be working alongside application programmers and other business analysts, supporting a range of colleagues and customers. Excellent communication and analytical skills are needed to translate potentially complex business issues into system requirements.
Practical experience gained from using or supporting Treasury Management systems will be a pre-requisite.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyzing and responding to client’s enhancement requirements
- Analyzing and investigating issues raised, and where applicable recreating within a control environment
- Liaising with colleagues on the resolution of issues and the progress of enhancements
- Translation of business requirements into development specifications
- Preparation of test cases together with their execution, and documentation of results
- Preparation of effort estimates to build enhancements
- Preparation of development project plans
- Preparation of documentation, including Release Notes, Implementation instructions and help files
- Preparing and presenting demonstrations of the application to prospects
- Become a champion for the product within the Company
- Creation of Business Requirements and Functional Specifications for new product features
Required Skills & Experience
- Practical experience in the financial markets gained with a bank/corporate
- Practical experience of financial technology gained within a software house or an in-house technology department
- Good knowledge of financial industry, instruments and market processes
- Excellent numerical analysis skills and the ability to build simple spreadsheet models
- Excellent analytical and communication (verbal and written) skills
- Good customer relationship and interpersonal skills
- Organization planning skills
- Enthusiasm for taking responsibility and a passion for knowledge
- A self-motivated and hard working individual who is goal oriented, able to work with minimal supervision but also effectively as part of a team
Wall Street is an equal opportunity employer. At Wall Street Systems, we prohibit any type of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex, or national origin and value diversity of all types.