Lead Business Analyst - Financial (Permanent - Remote Role)

Title: Lead Business Analyst/ Project Manager

******** Leadership experience leading a team of 5+ Business analysts REQUIRED *********

Duration: Full Time/ Direct Hire/ Permanent

Location: Remote

**Financial Industry/Investment Banking domain experience - REQUIRED**/

**Experience leading a small team of 7-8 members is a MUST**

Position Summary

The Principal Business Analyst is the most senior business analysis position and serves as a key subject matter expert for organizing and coordinating strategic business analysis services to business partners. The focus of this position is to work closely with the business units to gain in-depth understanding of customer's business strategy, processes, services, roadmap and the context in which the business team operates. This role will be key to understanding and documenting capabilities and business, functional and technical requirements needed to address business challenges. Business Analysts work closely with Business resources and stakeholders, internal Technology teams, and various vendors and third-party consultants and implementers.

What You’ll Do

• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency of business or technical processes
• Facilitate design sessions for business solutions
• This position supports multiple business units, projects, programs and software applications
• Provide leadership to other business analysts, coaching them on requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation approaches
• Escalate project roadblocks to Business Line and Program Management Leadership
• Identify opportunities to leverage existing capabilities in Business Line portfolio to solve business challenges
• Ensure that the design and integration of proposed system, software and hardware solutions leads to the development and growth of the business through effective use of technology
• Communicate high level technology requirements and specifications that meet current and future business needs
• Distill and analyze complex, enterprise level business challenges and to transform those challenges into succinct, written business, functional and technical requirements
• Lead large enterprise level projects working with cross functional teams in planning, development and implementation of technical solutions
• Review business processes from end-to-end to identify and address operational, financial and technological risks
• May include management of a team or other Business Analysts

Qualifications

• Expert working knowledge of change management principles and performance evaluation processes
• Ability to be creative and think outside of the box to see the whole business picture while maintaining an exceptional eye for detail
• Ability to work on multiple projects and programs simultaneously
• 10+ yearsof experiencewith special emphasis on coordinating business, functional and technical requirements and/or project management across large cross functional teams, programs or projects
• Must possess exceptional leadership, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills
• Exposure to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile and Scrum Methodologies
• Must have advanced knowledge of business productivity tools like Microsoft Office, Excel, Power Point, and Visio.
• B.S, B.A. in Computer Science or Businesspreferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, must be able to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical people
• Excellent attitude and positive demeanor
• Able to work with strict deadlines and time pressure
• Expert knowledge of general IT, and Business Operations