Business Analyst with SQL & Banking Domain

Work with Executives to identify Client needs

- - Interaction with Sales Team to engage in pre-sales and post-sales activities

- Must be excellent in verbal and written communication

- Must be detail oriented in work and focused on results

- Ensure to take appropriate steps to resolve customer's problems

- Audit work orders for accuracy and make corrections if required

1. Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring feasibility, capability and bandwidth 2. Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques 3. Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation 4. Ability to translate intelligence from data into business language with clearly articulating the approach, impacts and results 5. Understanding of Analytical concepts, tools and its applications 6. Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress 7. Coordinate within the team and stakeholders for the flawless execution of project 8. Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and meet the objectives 9. Perform risk management to minimize project risks 10. Ability to multi-task and manage various project elements simultaneously 11. Analyzing existing system documentation to summarize existing system functionality as it relates to the work at hand 12. Supporting the identification of team priorities based upon feedback from the customers, key stakeholders and the team 13. A good understanding of Agile values, principles and methodologies with experience of working within an Agile environment 14. User Story creation and Gap Analysis 15. User Acceptance Testing Support 16. Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to the stakeholders, your peers and management level colleagues

Responsibilities

This role requires a person to support business charters & accompanying products by aligning with the Analytics

Manager’s vision, understanding tactical requirements and helping in successful execution. Split would be approx.

70% management + 30% individual contributor. Responsibilities include

Project Management

- Understand business needs and objectives.

- Refine use cases and plan iterations and deliverables - able to pivot as required.

- Estimate efforts and conduct regular task updates to ensure timeline adherence.

- Set and manage stakeholder expectations as required

Quality Execution

- Help BA and SBA resources with requirement gathering and final presentations.

- Resolve blockers regarding technical challenges and decision-making.

- Check final deliverables for correctness and review codes, along with Manager.

KPIs and metrics

- Orchestrate metrics building, maintenance, and performance monitoring.

- Owns and manages data models, data sources, and data definition repo.

- Makes low-level design choices during execution.

Team Nurturing

- Help Analytics Manager during regular one-on-ones + check-ins + recruitment.

- Provide technical guidance whenever required.

- Improve benchmarking and decision-making skills at execution-level.

- Train and get new resources up-to-speed.

- Knowledge building (methodologies) to better position the team for complex problems.

Communication

- Upstream to document and discuss execution challenges, process inefficiencies, and feedback loops.

- Downstream and parallel for context-building, mentoring, stakeholder management.

Analytics Stack

- Analytics : Python / R + SQL + Excel / PPT, Colab notebooks

- Database : PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, DynamoDB, Aerospike

- Warehouse : Amazon Redshift

- ETL : Lots of Python + custom-made

- Business Intelligence / Visualization : Metabase + Python/R libraries (location data)

- Deployment pipeline : Docker, Git, Jenkins, AWS Lambda

Job Description : Agile Expertise Experience managing requirements in an agile format from discovery through to delivery in an ongoing successful/sustainable model Experience as a scrum master & running Agile ceremonies, keeping stakeholders updated wrt to status Capabilities must include: Definition, importance & role ownership of Ceremonies, Scrum recognized and otherwise.  This would encompass, at minimum, Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Demo & Retrospective. Deep understanding of a user story & anatomy therein (Actor, Action Taken, Behavior, Business Value Justification acceptance criteria Business Analysis Capabilities 5+ years of business analyst experience performing requirements gathering, elaboration, story creation, acceptance validation etc. 3+ years of Hands-on experience with agile tools like Jira or equivalent Strong discovery experience Process/Sequence diagramming Postman and SOAPUI experience is a plus Diverse group facilitation Should be able to drive consensus around variety of Virtusa and Client business/technical leaders/SMEs

• Liaising between the IT department and the Executive branch.
• Acting as an information source and communicator between business branches.
• Crete Business Proposals and SOW.
• Understanding strategic business needs and plans for growth.
• Enhancing the quality of IT products and services.
• Analyzing the design of technical systems and business models.
• Utilizing IT data for business insights.
• Analyzing business needs.
• Sourcing and implementing new business technology.
• Finding technological solutions to business requirements.
• Producing reports on application development and implementation.

• Should be independent contributor.
• Writing individual user stories that are very clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development team.
• Identifying related user stories and epics, grouping them into themes as necessary and documenting the interrelationship and associated business process flows as necessary
• Prepare EPICS, Themes , User Stories and maintain product backlog, release backlog
• Constantly groom user stories, update acceptance criteria and keep the backlog up-to date
• Reviews, explain, orally, visually user stories, functional aspect of the system
• Participate in sprint review meetings, accept stories that meet the user acceptance criteria
• Manage changes to the stories, split user stories as appropriate
• Preparation of Documentation, Help files, and other project documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed.
• Serve as a liaison with the business community and IT to ensure that changes are understood.
• Promptly escalate issues, which affect product delivery and quality that are beyond scope of influence and report same to Project Lead/technical lead

• Experience in functional decomposition of requirement in a logical manner.
• Ability to articulate functional acceptance criteria.
• Ability to draw visuals manually or using any tool to present functionality and system behavior
• Ability to interview users and capture user requirement as stories
• Client interactions during the project/product life cycle
• Good analytical skills
• 3-5 years of experience in Agriculture domain.
• Over all understanding of ERP, SCM, CRM kind of business process for better comprehension
• At least 1 full life cycle development experience of Concept to Delivery
• Hands on tools like JIRA, TFS kind of requirement management repositories
• Working experience of 3-5 years of Agile based projects as B.A. and aware of all nuances of Agile, SCRUM methodologies.

We are looking for an ambitious and energetic Research and Market Entry Strategist to help us expand our clientele. You will be the front of the company and will have the dedication to create and apply an effective sales strategy.

The goal is to drive sustainable financial growth through boosting sales and forging strong relationships with clients.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a growth strategy focused both on financial gain and customer satisfaction
• Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs
• Arrange business meetings with prospective clients
• Promote the company’s products/services addressing or predicting clients’ objectives
• Prepare sales contracts ensuring adherence to law-established rules and guidelines
• Provide trustworthy feedback and after-sales support
• Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers
• Develop entry level staff into valuable salespeople 

Position –Business Analyst.

Location – Mumbai Andheri

Time – 1 pm to 10 pm

Experience – 7+ Years

Job description

• Gathering business and functional requirements.
• Developing requirements documents: goal model, functional modelling, business process, customer interactions/wireframes; writing high-level user requirements (Epics and User Stories) and Process flows/analysis in JIRA
• Preparing use cases and formal requirements documentation.
• Analyzing and simplifying the requirement scenarios and be able to write prerequisites, Acceptance Criteria. Work closely with the business and technology to gather & write end to end business testing requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Ensuring that releases are getting completed as per timeline and quality by working closely with the product delivery team and keeping daily track of progress.
• Coordinate UAT activities prior to new product releases and client onboarding events including tracking of defects and progress of resolution.
• Escalation of issues in a timely manner.
• Ensure adherence to audit, SLA and operational standards.
• Demonstrations of new functionality to business and technology users.
• Work closely with the support team to ensure timely knowledge transfer.
• Providing analysis and support for the project management, application development, and QA teams throughout the development lifecycle.
• Acting as a liaison between the technology department and other business units.
• Working on RFI or RFP proposals. Participating in process studies or pre-sales process of responding to RFI, RFP, and proposals.
• Leading business and technical analysis sessions to support new development efforts to meet current and projected business needs.
• Quickly understanding the business issues and data challenges of client’s organization and industry.
• Providing expertise on the system's capabilities/limitations as it relates to business goals.
• Preparing impact and opportunity assessments regarding the cost/benefit of proposed projects.
• Aligning stakeholders on business requirements, system requirements, program functions, and strategy.

Requirements

• Domain experience must include 4+ years of experience in the US property and casualty insurance.
• Good understanding and exposure to policy forms or insurance documents.
• Ability to coordinate with other business analysts and follow the direction of BA manager or the project lead BA.
• Ability to work with offshore teams located across time zones.
• Ability to work with QA team and define testing strategies.
• Ability to work independently.

• Proficient with tools like Jira, Confluence, Wiki, MS-Word, Excel, and Visio, etc.
• Have a good experience of the Agile Process (SCRUM)
• Can validate, refine, and optimize solution option models, through analysis of options, can select the option with the greatest business benefit bearing in mind the customer's & product objectives.
• Shows a good understanding of the domain and visualize new features and requirements from industry best practice and document them for technical implementation.
• Demonstrates active listening and values others input/expertise, diversity of views/opinions and responds appropriately.

1. Ensuring productivity of the team members viz a viz the sprint/tasks plan.

2. Collaborating with the product team to define the product vision

3. Setting the objectives and key results

4. Building a strategic product roadmap that fits in with the overall strategy of the department and the company

5. Speaking to customers to collect feedback

6. Working with the developers to deliver quality features and products within the expected timeline

Requirements

1. Good communication skills.

2. Prior experience in team management is a must have

3. Time Management Skills

4. Ability to focus on what and how instead of who

5. Should have a good understanding and knowledge of IT.

Desired Candidate Profile

1. Exp. In online bidding on various portal like Elance, Guru, Freelancer, Odesk, Upwork etc.
2. Expert in generating business from online bidding.
Writing proposals, costing and negotiations.
3. Prospect for potential new clients and turn this into increased business.
4. Candidate should be flexible in working hours.
5. Generate new business leads for Web design, graphic design, web development & internet marketing.