Business Analyst

• Work with stakeholders across the business to ensure that user stories are clearly defined, delivered, and approved for deployment
• Translate business requirements into detailed system requirements and technical design specifications
• Investigate, model, define and document required business processes
• Carry out requirements analysis for change requests including requirements gathering and participating in workshops to understand project objectives and scope
• To work with other business analysts and members of Group Infrastructure to develop realistic solutions to business requirements, taking into account budgets, timescales and costs
• Support the development of training and implementation material
• Assist in integration and acceptance testing
• Participate in sprint planning where applicable

Key Skills

• Experience using agile project management tools such as Pivotal Tracker
• Experience working within Scrum or other agile teams
• Experience in working with Marketing and Events tools such as Eventsforce
• Experience of working in a technology-focused company

• Minimum of 9 yrs of experience as Business Analyst, 2 yrs exp as Product Owner
• Take the lead of scrum teams as the  Product Owner/Business Analyst
• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
• Staying up-to-date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.
• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
• Performing requirements analysis.
• Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts.
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
• Working closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff.
• Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.
• Allocating resources and maintaining cost efficiency.
• Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements.
• Performing user acceptance testing.
• Updating, implementing and maintaining procedures.
• Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Serving as a liaison between stakeholders and users.
• Managing competing resources and priorities.
• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
• Advanced technical skills.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and PPT.
• A track record of following through on commitments.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Experience leading and developing top performing teams.
• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements 
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
• Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities 
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new   functionalities
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
• Follow our competitors and the industry 
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends

•  The Analyst will work with our Quant Research team and will assist in projects to improve stock selection, portfolio construction or implementation.
•  Main goals for the candidate would be around developing smart beta index portfolios.
•  Research on topics specific to quant trading, including AI/ML, statistical arbitrage, momentum, mean-reversion, factor investing and applications of statistics and econometrics models.

• Responsible for collecting all in-scope business requirements
• Able to prioritize requirements and negotiate on deployment timeframes on behalf of the development team
• Ability to perform detailed analysis to ensure all aspects of the business requirement are understood
• Able to formalize business requirements, ready for two way communication business communications up and technical communications down
• Capable of managing all non-technical aspects of the new requirements
• Capable of working with the test team to develop/ review test scripts and profile of test data
• Able to produce ad-hoc SQL queries/ ad-hoc reports that can be used to monitor success of the new requirement by ensuring data is being created as it should
• Must have worked on medium to large size custom application development projects and has exposure to all phases of the SDLC
• Experience in Insurance Domain is a must
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office tools
• Get actively involved in various project phases
• Act as a key interface between users and development teams
• Technology Graduate: B.Sc IT, MSc IT / B.Tech, M.Tech/ BCA, MCA