Senior Business Analyst (19654)

Senior Business Analyst (19654)

Contract position at a large financial services conglomerate.(the reference # for this position:19654)

Detailed Info: 

• Understand customer requirements and translate into technical deliverables across a wide array of products and technologies.
• Analyze and understand the current Cash Management product offerings within the bank in general.
• Create business model and logical data models for cash management products.
• Reverse engineer the business model for the Cash management products on existing applications.
• Interface with and collaborate with the technology and architect team to help identify and define services interfaces for SOA.
• Partner with the business and technical teams and create and maintain the Functional design for the various modules in the platform.
• Identify, create and maintain Functional Requirements, User Interface requirements and Service interface requirements per the processes established in the organization.
• Document and maintain Use Cases, Functional design, and System Specification.
• Follow the SDLC process established in the organization and create and maintain all relevant requirements artifacts.
• Support development, QC and UAT teams of the various projects.
• Act as subject matter expert on the various domains.

Development/Computing Environment:

• College degree
• 7+ year minimum Business Analyst experience with enterprise level
• 7+ financial applications
• Prior experience with Cash Management products and Electronic Banking platform must have Cash Management Payments Direct Debit FX Global and Regional Payments Clearing and Settlement processes and settlement systems Ability to understand customer business process and requirements and translate into a functional requirement across a wide array of products and technologies.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation of complex information and data).
• Prior experience with UML.
• Ability to draft Use Cases, Process Flows, Activity Diagrams.
• Experience with creating data models, process flows and sequence diagrams are must.
• Expertise in Word, Excel, Power Point & Visio is a must.
• Good analytical and problem analysis skills.
• A strong commitment to quality and efficiency.
• Excellent multitasking ability - Must have ability to track multiple issues, effectively manage time and competing priorities, and to drive results through partner organizations.
• Relationship management skills -ability to develop and sustain positive partnerships and be a team player.
• Experience of using UML, SQL/PLSQL knowledge are desired but NOT required.
• Detail oriented and well organized.
• Prior experience with Requirements Management tool including DOORS / Blueprint highly desired.
• Prior experience with Sharepoint  Skills

Required for the position:

BUSINESS ANALYST, FX, UML, SETTLEMENT, EXCEL, WORD, SQL, VISIO, SHAREPOINT;

This position is at a Jersey City location. It offers a competitive compensation.

Submit resumes to yigal@sans.com

Project Manager/Project Coordinator (19649)

Project Manager/Project Coordinator (19649)

Contract position at a large financial services conglomerate.(the reference # for this position:19649)

Detailed Info: 

MS Office  Good Powerpoint and Strong Excel skills        

Sharepoint  Pre-exposure to Share Point.

Ability to use and organize sharepoint (Not development skills) Project planning  Understands stages of SDLC and experience of tracking it project, budget etc Organizing and Conduct Meetings

Development/Computing Environment:

Organizing and Conduct Meetings

Good communication and interpersonal skills

Technology exposures (design, development experience) related to following skills is a very good add

        1.       Java / Flex

        2.       Websphere

        3.       Oracle  PL/SQL

        4.       Unix

Person should be flexible to work different hours as role requires interaction with Asia and EMEA teams.

Skills Required for the position:

PROJECT MANAGER, MS OFFICE, POWERPOINT, EXCEL, SDLC, JAVA, FLEX, WEBSPHERE, ORACLE, PL/SQL, UNIX, SHAREPOINT;

This position is at a Warren,NJ location. It offers a competitive compensation.

Please email resume to yigal@sans.com

AV Project Manager (19624)

AV Project Manager (19624)
NEW YORK CITY.

Multimedia Project Manager for projects ranging from $50,000-Multi-Million dollar Multimedia Projects. Coordination with Corporate Services Design Consultant Teams to implement Client's Multimedia Systems both as new construction as well as room upgrades in the Americas. Building RFP's and managing the RFP process as well as the awarded Multimedia Vendor through project closeout. Some travel may be required.   

Skills Required:  
* Minimum 5 years Project Management Experience
* AV Engineering experience
* Infocomm CTS Certification
* Minimum 3 Years Experience working as a Project Manager at an Audiovisual Integrator or Audiovisual design Consultant 

Skills Desired:  
Infocomm CTS-D Certification 

PROJECT MANAGER POSITION (19621)

PROJECT MANAGER POSITION (19621)

Analyst with some project management experience will be responsible for

• Leading the vendor evaluation and selection of a tool to measure application development productivity
• Defining an effective application rollout strategy for on-board applications onto the selected tool
• Managing the communication of status, issue, and risks to all appropriate stakeholders, including senior management, on a timely basis.

 Qualifications

• Experience running third-party tool evaluations and selection processes
• Background in Project Management experience leading Application Development teams
• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes and Application Lifecycle tools
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, with ability perform pivot analysis and charts on large data sets
• Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint, with ability to create clear & concise communications for senior management
• Minimum 10 years technology experience with at least 5 years of Financial Services/Capital Markets / Securities & Banking experience
• Influences and negotiates with senior leaders (across functions); may communicate with external parties.
• Ability to perform meeting facilitation of senior managers in the organization
• Highly developed written and visual communications skills
• Experience in systems design and architecture a plus

This position is at a New York City location. It offers a competitive compensation.
Please contact me by email along with an updated resume, your current rate/salary & compensation requirements, as well as your citizenship status and availability if you are interested in this position.  If you are not currently available, but know someone who is interested I would appreciate your referral greatly.

Email resumes to yigal@sans.com

Business System Analyst (19593)

Business System Analyst (19593)

 

Location:  Jersey City
Business System Analyst - Cash AML Remediation Support

Job Description:
As Business Analyst, you will be responsible for gaining an understanding of our client's business needs and using the Flexcube platform to develop functional solutions.  You will be responsible for developing and maintaining project documentation and information in support of multiple implementations.  Looking for candidates that have knowledge of Core banking systems, Accounting, and Banking Operations.

Responsibilities:
Conduct analysis in support of the definition and documentation of the Anti Money Laundering (AML) remediation requirements affecting our applications.  Review the design of controls and operational effectiveness of processes in Flexcube and legacy mainframe applications.  Act as the primary contact for end users and act as a liaison with other members of the implementation team.  Work with users to elicit and identify business requirements.  Document business requirements utilizing use cases and data flow diagrams.  You will lead workshops to describe application functionality and the ability to support current business functions and processes, determine functional gaps, propose workarounds, and identify potential areas of development.  In this role, you will be responsible for explaining application functionality and answering functional question from project stakeholders.
Translate business requirements into functional specifications.  You must have the ability to interpret requirements and create sufficiently detailed documents, diagrams and workflows.   The specifications could include data mapping, interface requirements, and workflow/business logic.  Work with technology staff to ensure an accurate understanding of the specifications and product to be delivered.  Provide documentation support of interface, reporting, and data conversion requirements and specifications.
Work with Project and Program management to identify deliverables, estimate analysis effort, and create project schedules and preliminary budgets for implementations.
Assist the technology staff to configure the system and business parameters.  This could include the maintenance of static parameters, advice formats, security, chart of accounts, account definitions, etc.
Assist the Testing staff by explaining functionality in their development of test use cases and scripts.  During testing, you will assist in defect analysis by validating conformance to requirements.  Occasional onsite QA users support during SIT, UAT, and PVT phases.
Provide post-implementation assistance to end users in the adoption of new systems and processes.  This will also include analytic and documentation support of production change and release management.

 

Skills:

• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills, oral and written.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to solve complex problems and issues.
• Banking Domain experience (DDA, Payments, Funds Transfer, International Cash Management, SWIFT /Messaging, Trade Services)
• Reporting and query languages (ex. Business Objects, Crystal Reports, PL/SQL)
• Microsoft Office skills, including Powerpoint and MS Project
• Proficiency in diagramming tools is required, MS Visio preferred.  Knowledge of UML language and diagram standards is also desired.

 

Experience:

• 3+ years experience as a Business Analyst or Consultant in an IT environment.
• Experience with Bank Client onboarding/KYC Technology.
• Experience implementing and/or supporting Banking Products - Liquidity, Accounting, Information Reporting, Risk Management, Cash pooling, DDA, etc.
• Business Analysis or Project Lead support of at least one Core Banking system implementation.
• Educational Requirements / Certifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Science, Engineering or Technology desirable

This position is at a Jersey City location and offers a competitive compesation.  Please conact me by email along with an updated resume, your current rate/salary & compensation requirements, as well as your citizenship status and availablilty if you are interesed in this position.  If you are not currently available, but know someone who is interested I would appreciate your referrals greatly.

 

Send resumes to yigal@sans.com

Project Manager (19590)

Project Manager (19590)

Role and Responsibilities

• Lead core project team and facilitate team's ability to lead extended/complete project team.
• Ensure effective cross-functional teamwork among project team members including both internal and external ancillary services.
• Serve as escalation point for project issues.
• Resolve conflicts as needed.
• As applicable monitor project schedule and scope to ensure both remain on track. Initiate and implement appropriate actions.
• Contribute to the work by the Head of IRS PMG on the strategic direction of the team.
• Proactively engage in both quality assurance and risk management activities to ensure project deliverables are met according to client requirements.
• Accountable for budget across assigned project(s) including the control and minimizing of write-offs. Proactively identify out of scope activities and execute necessary change orders.
• Collaborate with finance to initiate monthly invoicing.
• Ensure that all staff allocated to assigned project(s) adheres to professional standards and SOPs.
• Initiate improvements to enhance the efficiency and the quality of the work performed on assigned projects.
• Provide performance feedback of team members to respective supervisors.
• Present at external and/or internal meetings.
• Ensure client satisfaction.
• Define and manage project resource needs and establish succession plans for key resources.
• Create required project plans. Implement and monitor progress against project plans and revise as necessary. Responsible for appropriate issue escalation to appropriate stakeholder(s).
• Serve as key client contact for assigned projects.
• Establish working relationships with client project teams which result in client satisfaction, operational excellence and thereby increase potential for repeat business.
• Prepare and actively participate as operational lead in internal project review meetings.
• In collaboration with relevant departments, develop cost estimates and proposals and prepare and deliver presentations for new business as required.
• Meet resource management and utilization targets for assigned staff.
• Meet financial performance targets for the assigned projects and proactively manage change control process both internally and externally.
• Ensure lessons learned are implemented across projects currently being managed.
• Contribute to development and management of client project metrics.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Skill Sets

• Project Management skills
• Project methodology (both waterfall and agile)
• PM experience (at least 5- 7 years)
• PMO experience
• Risk and Issue management
• Change Control
• Planning and estimating
• Project reporting
• Benefit tracking
• PMP certification preferred
• Insurance industry experience a plus
• Good communication (in all forms to all levels)

This position is at a New York City location and offers a competitive compesation.  Please conact me by email along with an updated resume, your current rate/salary & compensation requirements, as well as your citizenship status and availablilty if you are interesed in this position.  If you are not currently available, but know someone who is interested I would appreciate your referrals greatly.

Send resumes to yigal@sans.com

Sr. Business Analyst (19540)

Sr. Business Analyst Position (19540)

The candidate's main objective is to provide Subject Matter Expertise and guidance in the requirement Analysis and solution design of the clients core Global Accounting Platform.  Candidate should have knowledge of Core banking systems, Accounting, and Banking Operations.

• Provide product expertise for our Global Core Banking & Accounting Platform to a variety of audiences, including the Local Business team, Local and Global Operation teams, Business, Analysts, Development teams and Senior Management.
• Demonstrates his/her understanding of our Global Strategy on Functional Blue Print usage; should be able to communicate this to a non technical audience to ensure that the business strategies are maintained.
• Possess a clear understanding of how the business uses the products in day-to-day activities and able to communicate this to the Business Partners and to Technology. For new countries being rolled out to Core & Accounting Platform, should be able to provide the same support.
• Maintains current working knowledge of the Global and Regional partners/products processors across both Domestic and International markets.
• Work with Global Delivery Team to analyze the business requirements.  Should be able to respond to requirements by producing High level Design (HLD) and low level design documents.
• Candidate will lead workshops to describe application functionality and the ability to support current business functions and processes.

• 5-7 years of experience
• Banking Domain experience mainly on DDA, International Cash Management and optionally in Local Payments, Funds Transfer, Collections, SWIFT /Messaging, Trade Services etc.
• Experience implementing and or supporting Core Banking Products is must. Flexcube experience is a major advantage.
• Past experience in documenting HLDs/LLDs is a must. Proficiency in diagramming tools is required, MS Visio preferred. 
• Client facing management or Relationship Management experience.
• Ability to communicate (both verbal and written) issues in a clear and timely manner to build trusting partnership with a wide variety of audiences and stakeholders.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, solid organizational and analytical abilities.
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Science, Engineering or Technology desirable

This position is at a Jersey City location and offers a competitive compesation.  Please conact me by email along with an updated resume, your current rate/salary & compensation requirements, as well as your citizenship status and availablilty if you are interesed in this position.  If you are not currently available, but know someone who is interested I would appreciate your referrals greatly.

Send resumes to yigal@sans.com

Datawarehouse/Java Developer

Datawarehouse / Java Developer
Jersey City, NJ


Job Summary & Responsibilities 
Distribution Technology is seeking an strong application developer for development of new projects and application support for clients mutual fund sales attribution and reporting platform supporting the shareholder services and sales business.  The candidate must have strong analytical and communications skills, and must be able to operate independently, interacting daily with stakeholders, peers, developers and management.  The ideal candidate will be strong technically with data warehouse experience, strong database skills, ETL design & tools, java, unix, and scripting.

Basic Qualifications 

• Proficiency in problem solving and analytical skills 
• Experience with data warehouse and reporting applications
• Java, unix, scripting skills
• Strong knowledge of Object Oriented Design and Development 
• Database design and query optimization skills
• Proficient communication skills
• Experience writing high quality, secure, readable, and maintainable code 
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-site global team 
• Experience working with end users to during various phases such as requirements definition, UAT,     production support 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with Informatica
• Detail oriented with track record of working on full system life cycle application development projects 
• Highly motivated, and organized individual who takes initiative and is able to manage multiple tasks independently 
• Understanding of asset management business 
• Experience of Test-Driven Development and automated testing tools 
• Experience with user experience analysis or user interface design
• Project management skills

This position is at a Jersey City location and offers a competitive compesation.  Please conact me by email along with an updated resume, your current rate/salary & compensation requirements, as well as your citizenship status and availablilty if you are interesed in this position.  If you are not currently available, but know someone who is interested I would appreciate your referrals greatly.

Send resumes to yigal@sans.com

Business Analyst Position (19323)

Business Analyst

The nature of the project is

• Understand customer requirements and translate into technical deliverables across a wide array of products and technologies.
• Analyze and understand the current Cash Management product offerings within the bank in general.
  Create business model and logical data models for cash management products.
• Reverse engineer the business model for the Cash management products on existing applications.
• Interface with and collaborate with the technology and architect team to help identify and define services interfaces for SOA.
• Partner with the business and technical teams and create and maintain the Functional design for the various modules in the platform.
• Identify, create and maintain Functional Requirements, User Interface requirements and Service interface requirements per the processes established in the organization.
  Document and maintain Use Cases, Functional design, and System Specification.
• Follow the SDLC process established in the organization and create and maintain all relevant requirements artifacts.
• Support development, QC and UAT teams of the various projects.
• Act as subject matter expert on the various domains.

• College degree
• 7+ year minimum Business Analyst experience with enterprise level financial applications
• Prior experience with Cash Management products and Electronic Banking platform must have
• Cash Management
• Payments
• Direct Debit
• FX
• Global and Regional Payments Clearing and Settlement processes and settlement systems
• Ability to understand customer business process and requirements and translate into a functional requirement across a wide array of products and technologies.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation of complex information and data).
• Prior experience with UML.
• Ability to draft Use Cases, Process Flows, Activity Diagrams.
• Experience with creating data models, process flows and sequence diagrams are must.
• Expertise in Word, Excel, Power Point & Visio is a must.
• Good analytical and problem analysis skills.
• A strong commitment to quality and efficiency.
• Excellent multitasking ability - Must have ability to track multiple issues, effectively manage time and competing priorities, and to drive results through partner organizations.
• Relationship management skills -ability to develop and sustain positive partnerships and be a team player.
• Experience of using UML, SQL/PLSQL knowledge are desired but NOT required.
• Detail oriented and well organized.
• Prior experience with Requirements Management tool including DOORS / Blueprint highly desired.
• Prior experience with Sharepoint

This position is at a Jersey City location and offers a competitive compesation.  Please conact me by email along with an updated resume, your current rate/salary & compensation requirements, as well as your citizenship status and availablilty if you are interesed in this position.  If you are not currently available, but know someone who is interested I would appreciate your referrals greatly.

Send resumes to yigal@sans.com

Business Analyst (19537)

Business Analyst Position (19537)

Look for people with PAYMENTS experience.

• Min. 5 years experience within Banking & Financial Services industry in Business Analysis and/or Product Management capacity
• Solid background and understanding of Corporate Banking products and services offered within the following areas:
• Payments (Must)
• Receivables (Must)
• Liquidity & Investments (Must)
• Commercial Cards (Must)
• Information Services / Master Data Management & Business Intelligence (Must)
• Trade Services (Nice to have)
• Securities & Funds Services (Nice to have)
• Background and knowledge of clients products/capabilities preferred
• Excellent oral & written communication skills: Clear, Concise, Direct & Timely communication
• Experience in exhaustive Data Analysis and knowledge of Master Data Management concepts & best practices is a plus
• Experience in Business Process analysis & Workflow definition is a plus
• Ability to effectively interact with many stakeholders globally and handle multiple information tracks concurrently
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision - A self starter & quick learner
• Ability to lead analysis tracks and deliverables to closure through proactive follow-ups and timely reporting
• Exhaustive analysis of Product Master Data within the Capability Grid
• Obtain and understand GTS product revenue reporting structure
• Define and finalize optimal Product Master Data hierarchy through data analysis & revenue reporting structure
• Define and finalize optimal Product Attributes mapping and Attribute Groups structure
• Define and finalize Business Rules for Product Master Data cleansing & enrichment for Data Migration
• Interact with Business Users globally -
• Understand various Product Master Data usage scenarios
• Define user experience requirements and detail Use Cases
• Interact with Product Teams and Region/Cluster/Country Reps globally -
• Validate Product Master Data hierarchy, Attributes structure and Data Migration business rules
• Define and finalize Capability Update/Introduction workflows
• Define Product Master Data never entered into the Capability Grid and related configuration for on-boarding to PDH
• Interact with PDH Technology team -
• Review Product Master Data hierarchy, Product Attributes structure and Data Migration Business Rules
• Define test cases
• Validate test results
• Collaborate & define functional solutions for required user-level/process-level enhancements
• Document User Training material

This position is at a Jersey City location and offers a competitive compesation.  Please conact me by email along with an updated resume, your current rate/salary & compensation requirements, as well as your citizenship status and availablilty if you are interesed in this position.  If you are not currently available, but know someone who is interested I would appreciate your referrals greatly.

Send resumes to yigal@sans.com

Business Analyst Position (19541)

Business Analyst Position (19541)

Description

The role of the Integration Business Analyst is to develop requirements for architecture engagement type project. This is achieved through interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys and personal visits.  The Business Analyst is responsible for the development of Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirement Document which include business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis.

 

Responsibilities

• Gather and document all requirements from multiple sources.
• Act as liaison between business units, technology teams, support groups and technical developers.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources.
• Interpret business and technical needs and translate them into specifications to support development.
• Decompose high-level information into details.
• Create abstractions from low level information to provide a general understanding.
• Distinguish and prioritize user requests.
• Develop Business Requirements documents.
• Develop Business and System Use cases.
• Understand and document interface and integration details.
• Align business requirements with solution architectural patterns as defined by technical architects and developers.
• Develop requirements using standard templates and established approaches.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to understand and establish a technical vision.
• Analyze, document and articulate tradeoffs between user and technical concerns.

Position Requirements

• University degree or college diploma.
• 5 years direct work experience in a Business Analyst capacity.
• Ability to reconcile business and technical conflicts and issues.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks.
• Familiarity with architecture, middleware technologies and information governance concepts.
• Previous experience working in middleware, SOA, J2EE application is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience in analyzing information and translating it into requirements on high profile projects.
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• Can conform to shifting priorities and demands.
• Experience developing enterprise requirements aligned with formal methodologies.
• Flexible during times of change.
• Strong analytic, verbal and written skills.
• Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

This position is at a Jersey City location and offers a competitive compesation.  Please conact me by email along with an updated resume, your current rate/salary & compensation requirements, as well as your citizenship status and availablilty if you are interesed in this position.  If you are not currently available, but know someone who is interested I would appreciate your referrals greatly.

Send resumes to yigal@sans.com

 

Sr. Business Analyst (19554)

Sr. Business Analyst (19554)


Job Description
Senior Business Analyst will serve as liaison between IT and business end-users located in Europe, Asia and North America.   Focus will be on payment data (e.g. Funds Transfers, Wires) to support Anti-Money Laundering monitoring activities.  This position will entail working with the AML business to analyze requirements and review/produce specifications for new and existing technology processes. This role will also involve working with the technical lead and offshore development team to ensure that they understand the specifications and can implement the requirements. Business process modeling will also need to be performed. Senior Business Analyst must have minimum 10 years of industry experience.

Role: Senior Business Analyst for the GTS AML IMR Remediation Program

Key Responsibilities 

• Document business requirements and communicate these requirements to the development team for the design and implementation.
• Business Analyst will document current and to-be process flows to understand and examine business processes.
• Business Analyst will be responsible to identify, assess, and document business requirements, recommending priorities, and advising team of options and risks.
• Help shape the vision of longer-term business requirements.
• Communicate business priorities to the technology organization in order to drive effective business solutions.
• Conduct research to determine if solutions to business requirements currently exist within or outside the business unit, and if not, whether new solutions are feasible.
• Facilitate requirements and design sessions with user community and IT.
• Analyze impact of proposed solution across the business, develop use cases to explain/demonstrate business requirements/specifications to IT team.
• Contributes to continuous improvement and proactively supports knowledge sharing within the team and across Technology.
• Facilitate implementation of new functionality through training sessions, demos, and the development of appropriate documentation.
• Manage day-to-day individual workload as well as the workload of others on the team, monitors milestones and critical dates.
• Extensive experience in writing Business Cases. Must have experience doing feasibility studies.
• Provide guidance in formulating new requirements and aim to improve business processes by coming up with creative and alternative approaches to solving business problems and identify business strategy, issues and opportunities.
• Business Analyst will coordinate with Project Managers in the development of detailed project plans and work assignments while monitoring progress to ensure project deliverables are met.

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate for this position will possess a college degree with 8 to 10 years experience in an IT Senior Business Analyst role.
• Experience with web-based and client server applications is required.
• Experience/understanding of business process reengineering and business modeling concepts, business systems development and analysis.
• Strong analytical and writing skills, to include solid experience in writing functional and technical specifications.
• The candidate must have demonstrated experience in documenting use cases and functional requirements with excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication is required along with strong presentation skills and business acumen.
• Knowledge of ETL technologies (Informatica, Ab-Initio).
• Experience with SQL and writing queries.

This position is at a Jersey City location and offers a competitive compesation.  Please conact me by email along with an updated resume, your current rate/salary & compensation requirements, as well as your citizenship status and availablilty if you are interesed in this position.  If you are not currently available, but know someone who is interested I would appreciate your referrals greatly.

Send resumes to yigal@sans.com