Business Analyst

Position: Business Analyst (Banking/Financial) -Open Position-CALocation: San Francisco, CAJob Description:

• Apply effective business analysis best practices; obtain, define, analyze, prioritize, and translate complex business needs into detailed non-functional and functional system requirements by collaborating with cross-functional teams; and communicate requirements to solution providers.
• Define and prioritize requirements to improve the KYC processes, workflow, systems, and data interfaces; understand the business rules and model; document data transformation and mapping requirements; document business and workflow processes; and implement efficiencies and improvements to the lines of business.
• Manage requirements through the project life cycle and test cases in JIRA.
• Analyze customer and transaction data from multiple integrated data sources.
• Work with business users to document end-to-end current state, pain points, and future state.
• Facilitate testing, including drafting test plans and test cases.
• Prepare data mapping documents and Traceability Matrices.
• Advise the solution provider, development, testing and production support teams as needed, providing requirements knowledge and subject-matter expertise.
• Understand system and data changes that potentially impact downstream systems.
• Continuously improve your subject-matter expertise in the business areas being supported, to become a trusted advisor to the business stakeholders.

• A bachelor’s degree or higher.
• At least seven years of experience as a Business Analyst in a financial institution.
• Experience working with BSA/AML/KYC function or systems.
• Strong understanding of software and systems development life cycles, including Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to write and execute basic SQL server queries to perform data analysis on customer and transaction data.
• Experience with process and data flow creation, basic data modeling, and business process improvement and innovation.
• Experience facilitating requirement gathering or joint application design sessions and writing requirements.
• Experience working on projects with multiple data interfaces and data mapping.
• Self-motivated and the ability to learn quickly and work independently, with minimum direction.
• Must possess strong interpersonal, organizational, team building, and communication (written and verbal) skills.
• The ability to multitask and balance competing priorities.
• A commitment to be a team player and provide extraordinary service.

• Must be able to review and analyze data reports and manuals; must be computer proficient.
• Must be able to communicate effectively via telephone and in person
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