IT Business Analyst-Summit-Contract-6 Months

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Sia Title: Project Consultant (Exempt Contractor)

Project Title: IT Business AnalystSummit

Level: MidSenior

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 backoffice 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 endusers.
• 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 daytoday 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.

Qualifications :

• Minimum 5 years experience in business analysis functions in the Finance industry Deep knowledge on Summit must be familiar with products traded on Fixed Income Treasury and Credit business.
• Must be familiar with Summit STP services for Front Office and Back office as cashflows accounting operations and settlements workflows.
• Deep IT knowledge the successful candidate must be able to review source code write and execute SQL queries (Sybase Oracle and SQL Server) and read/understand a script (Windows and Unix as Bash Perl Python)
• Strong knowledge of PnL hedge Market data setup and feed and a full transversal overview of the trade workflow from input until settlement.
• Ability to analyze complex problems with strong attention to detail and ability to provide solutions to problems.
• Ability to prioritize and multitask in a fastpaced environment on multiple applications. Knowledge of C C# python XML XSLT Excel VBA is a plus.

Additional Information :

At this time Sia Partners does not intend to pursue employment with applicants who will require now or in the future visa sponsorship by our company for work authorization in the United States (i.e. H1B visa F1 visa (OPT) TN visa or any other nonimmigrant status).

Project Consultant Benefits

• Statutory Time Off Sick 
• Medical Dental Vision: Eligible for Purchase Option
• 401(k) Participation: Eligible after one month of employment with matching and 100% vesting first day of participation  

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Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including hiring promotion remuneration or discipline are based solely on performance competence conduct or business needs.