Business Analyst (Finastra Summit Experience)

Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, New Millennium Consulting, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today! Job title: : Business Analyst (Finastra Summit Experience) Job location: New York, New York ( Hybrid - 3 days onsite) Job type: Contract W-2 Sponsorship provided Key skills: Finastra Summit, PnL, Summit STP, Settlements, SQL queries A global bank is looking for a IT Business Analyst with Finastra Summit Experience. The Business Analyst (Finastra Summit Experience) will manage several evolutions or project aiming at: Deploying new instruments Implementing and improving PnL, 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. He/She/They also supports Fixed Income, Treasury and Credit activities as well as back-office stakeholders by addressing functional issues/questions. Position requires great knowledge of PnL, hedge, Market data setup and feed and a full transversal overview of the trade workflow from input until settlement. Requirements: • 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) • Knowledge of C++, C#, python, XML, XSLT, Excel VBA is a plus. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Close collaboration with the user representatives (traders, sales, operations, etc ) to gather business requirements, including the identification of any potential issue or functional omissions; define and document the business requirements. • Write detailed functional specifications for IT development teams. • Development of user test cases and validate test results during user acceptance testing, training with Summit end-users. • Coordinate the go live and ensure proper system behavior. Project scoping and planning, progress reporting, identification and management of issues/risks and communications. Functional support / maintenance: • Responsible for quick resolution of day-to-day 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.