Job Title: Senior Business Analyst, Global Solutions
Business Unit: Global Solutions Group
Location: Chicago
Reports To: Executive Director, Chief Solutions Officer
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Hours : 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Position Summary:
R.J. O'Brien & Associates LLC is the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States. We are currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst to partner with business leaders throughout the firm to understand how to bridge the gap between their needs and delivery of a technical solution. The job will include collection and analysis of business requirements as well as drafting of project proposals, business requirements and creation of functional specifications. The role will require interaction with business leaders, system users, internal development teams and external vendors. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 8 years experience working as a business analyst.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Act as a consultant to senior management and all stakeholders who have a need for new or revised functionality
Collect, analyze, document, and review business requirements with project stakeholders
Create functional specifications and review them with development teams
Document and design business, data, process or workflows that show current and future flows
Review, analyze, and document changes to business processes that could benefit from improvements
Scope projects, create project plans and collaborate with developers to create work estimates and schedules
Organize meetings to track project status, manage deadlines and work with IT to meet project requirements
Help manage and provide governance for company project portfolio artifacts for project prioritization, decision making, resource management, communications, metrics and reporting
Assist in development of testing plans and scripts
Support end user testing
Help, plan and participate in testing and facilitate implementation
Manage, train and evaluate less experienced analysts
Qualifications:
Demonstrated knowledge and provide examples of recent experience working as a Business Analyst and / or Project Manager in the brokerage industry for a sell side firm. Candidate should have a general sense of the trading, clearing cycle, risk and regulatory backdrop in the brokerage industry. Confidence in working with a diverse group of colleagues across multiple geographies and multiple levels
A collaborative approach to problem solving
Familiarity with elicitation skills to understand business processes and needs.
Ability to document business requirements.
Ability to translate business requirements to a clear and logical functional specification that is coherent to IT developers and QA
Understand key concepts and standard methods employed by BA and PM roles in an organization
Enthusiastic self-starter who takes initiative
SKILLS DESIRED: Excellent interpersonal skills with a strong focus on internal client service
Experience in overseeing, directing, training and evaluating other business analysts
Able to produce clear system process and workflow diagrams
Familiarity and experience with various system development life cycle methodologies
Experience working for a brokerage firm
Demonstrate familiarity with business systems and process flows within the brokerage industry (front, middle or back office)
It is the policy of R.J. O'Brien & Associates, LLC to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
