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Please review the following requirement and let me know if you have any consultant. *Location*: NYC, NY *Duration*: 6 Months *Description:* *MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE: * - The Business Analyst will be working for the Alternative Investment Reporting, Valuation and Planning IT team. - Will be responsible for specific tactical/strategic deliverable projects and support of the following systems: - AI Finance Data Warehouse Reporting Platform - AI Firm Reporting System - Expense Tracking and Reporting System - AI Budgeting / Forecasting System - AI Portfolio Tracking System - Responsible for gathering/defining business requirements from clients. Writing business process documents, system analysis documents, business requirements document, test cases, testing and contributing to the phases of software development life cycle. – - Be responsible for interfacing with the development team in the explanation of requirements and will be expected to perform the QA role during the application testing. *Common responsibilities include: * - Working directly with the Project Managers and Business groups to ensure requirements and goals are correctly understood and documented. - Producing documentation for business process, system analysis, business requirement specification, use case models, data and process flow diagrams, including user/interface design and screen/report mockups. - Defining detailed test plans, executing test cases, regression testing, analyzing and reporting test results and maintaining traceability. - Ensuring current and accurate system documentation across projects following consistent standards and methodology. - Issue tracking from start to resolution, maintain effective status tracking for Audit purpose and provide production support to clients. - Participating in reviewing analysis, requirements, and design sessions with the development team. - Performing pre-release validation including supporting users during the UAT phase, post-release checkout and compile release notes. - Participate in the entire SDLC process and ensure all phases and necessary requirements are met with proper supporting artifacts. - Maintain constant communication with other team members, project managers as well as the Singapore team when necessary. • Demonstrates thorough working experience in methodologies and standards for analyzing business and system processes, utilize modeling techniques including: Data Flow Diagrams, System Diagrams, Process Models, and Use Case Modeling. • Extensive experience with producing business requirement and functional specification documents including user/interface designs and screen mockups. • Demonstrates strong working knowledge and hands on execution of the system development life cycle processes and SDLC methodologies. • Experience with creating and executing test scripts while thoroughly tracking, analyzing and reporting test results. • Skilled in analyzing and understanding data of reporting systems from various sources, performing Gap analysis, and identifying data integration points, anomalies, and issues. • Effectively manage time, prioritize work, multi-task across multiple assignments, and demonstrate accountability and ensure deliverables are met. • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and technical writing skills while demonstrating ability to interact professionally with a diverse group across IT and business teams, various levels of business managers and subject matter experts. • Flexibility and ability to work effectively in an agile development environment with rapid growth and changing requirements. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, highly organized and detail oriented. *Desirable Skills: * • Experience with Business Reporting Tools such as Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Excel 2003/2007 Cube Analysis/Pivot Table. • Experience with application development projects involving MS-SQL, Microsoft .NET platforms, Web Services, and SharePoint. • Exposure to logical and physical database design and understanding ER diagrams and Dimensional Data Models. • Experience or exposure to Business Intelligence platforms and data warehouse technologies. • Some basic experience in writing SQL and understanding of ETL Development Tools • Industry knowledge in Financial Services, Alternative Investment Business, Finance, Accounting, Financial Reporting.
