Lead Business Analyst

Job Description

About the opportunityDepartment DescriptionInvestment Solutions and Services (ISS) Technology provides systems development, implementation and support services for FIL s global Investment Management division. We support Fund Managers, Research Analysts and Traders in all of FIL s international locations, including London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Mumbai.Key Responsibilities
• Understand complex business issues and has the ability to understand the technical implications associated with business requirements
• Data Analysis and producing data mappings between various data and reporting platforms
• Acting as Data owners, understanding end to end journey from business as well as data perspective.
• Analysing the impact of upstream changes, in terms of data and communicating downstream impact as well.
• Understanding Data Lifecycle, Creating Data Catalogues, Writing User Stories and helping with solutions
• Leading Story walkthroughs for the delivery teams
• Doing extensive data analysis, and deriving business insights from data.
• Work on finalising and documenting new business processes with business users
• Knowledge on data warehousing conceps like Facts, Dimensions, Dimensional Modelling
• Good knowledge of SQL for analysing data
• Awareness around Reporting platforms & Tools (OBIEE / OAS, Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
• Help with understanding the current and proposed Operational Processes.
• Handle a demanding work environment and maintain a very high level of deliverable quality
• Interact with all levels of the business community, seeking approval from all stakeholders of the projects
• Define the scope of a business requirement, decide the approach and produce the specification.
• Drive the analysis effort from start to end for a given area keeping various stakeholders in the loop and getting approvals/sign offs from them.
• Assess and ensure that the solution being delivered is fit for purpose.
• Obtaining agreement on business analysis deliverables and ensuring that they meet all the requirements of the business and tracking these across multiple systems groups
• Working with business leads within the team to identify, define, and clarify the scope / issues in terms of complex business/systems requirements.
• Functionality co-ordination across multiple system projects delivering common, re-usable functionality using service-oriented patterns
• Acting as a proxy customer with the development teams, facilitating open communication between the customer & development team
• Driving user acceptance criteria with the customer
• Co-ordinate with onshore-offshore UK/India business analysts.
• Work with onshore-offshore UK/India development teams
• Interact & work with third party partners and suppliers
• Stay abreast of key emerging products / industry standards in the Business Analysis arena
Good to have knowledge / past experience of
• Functional understanding of Capital Markets & Investment data
• Good understanding of alternatives as an asset class, particularly Real Estate.
• Acting as Data owners, understanding end to end journey from business as well as data perspective.
• Analysing the impact of upstream changes, in terms of data and communicating downstream impact as well.
• Creating Data Catalogues
• Experience of business process re-engineering, analysis, user requirement gathering, gap analysis
• Should have experience producing functional specifications documents (FSDs)
• Ability to progress the analysis and drive decisions to close open issue through discussions with multiple stakeholders.
• Must be strong in translating business requirements to technical resources (internal and external) in supporting the project
• Delivery and results focused
• Stakeholder management.
• Strong customer awareness & business focus
• Strong documentation skills of standard SDLC artefacts like SRA/SDS etc.
• Fair idea of Agile methodology, familiar with Stories requirements artefact used in Agile
• Excellent inter-personal, communication, documentation, facilitation & presentation skills
Behavioural
• Learnability- Ability to collectively push the boundary & pioneer the adoption and industrialisation of emerging data technologies in the organisation. Passion for growing your skills and, tackling challenging problems
• Self-motivated to rapidly pick new skills, work directly with senior techies and fellow technology teams in a cordial environment
• Fungibility- Ability to flex in different roles as per project demand & willingness to move to new roles
• Ready to give and receive feedback in a candid way
• Proven ability to understand and manage senior stakeholders.
Personal Characteristics
• Enthusiasm for an agile approach to development
• A real desire to do things the right way whilst remaining delivery focused
• Ability to handle multiple assignments concurrently.
• Innovative and enthusiastic about business/financial domain and using it appropriately to solve problems
• Good interpersonal skills, confidence and ability to interact professionally with people at all levels
• Strong customer awareness and business focus
• Motivated, flexible and with a can do approach
• Team player with commitment to achieve team goals
• Disciplined and conscientious approach
• Ability to handle complex and challenging analysis and be able to define a suitable approach to handle the complexity.
• Ability to understand complex integrated enterprise systems layout.
• Ability to prioritise work and deliver in a complex and
• Keen to learn and develop proficiency
• Ability to thrive in a rapidly changing and expanding environment
• Strong desire to continually expand knowledge and learn new skills
Experience and Qualifications Required
• 5 - 9 years of experience as a business analyst
• A graduate or Postgraduate in Engineering or Computer Science from a reputed University. MBA (Finance), CFA, FRM or similar industry certifications are desired.
About you About Fidelity InternationalFidelity International offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.56 million customers globally. As a privately-held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Operating in more than 25 locations and with $783.6 billion in total assets, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals.Our Workplace & Personal Financial Health business provides individuals, advisers and employers with access to world-class investment choices, third-party solutions, administration services and pension guidance. Together with our Investment Solutions & Services business, we invest $567 billion on behalf of our clients. By combining our asset management expertise with our solutions for workplace and personal investing, we work together to build better financial futures.Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We are proud of our inclusive culture and encourage applications from the widest mix of talent, whatever your age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, social background and more. We are a disability-friendly company and would welcome a conversation with you if you feel you might benefit from any reasonable adjustments to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process and beyond.We are committed to being a truly flexible employer, encouraging and trusting our people to perform their role in the way that works best for them, our business, our colleagues and our clients. We offer the maximum possible flexibility over where and when you work for all, considering your role and any local regulations. We call this new approach dynamic working.Find out more about what we do, our history, our new approach of dynamic working and how you could be a part of our future at https://careers.fidelityinternational.com/about-usApplying to this Job Role: Please note you are only required to upload your CV/Resume to the application screen.,

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