Senior Financial Business Analyst - Remote

Senior Financial Business Analyst - Remote Working Hours: Pacific Time Zone 6 months contract with a possible extension Duties and Responsibilities:

• You will formulate and define system scope, objectives, and requirements through best practice disciplines, research, and requirements gathering.
• You will lead and/or assist business and technical teams to develop and/or modify processes to resolve moderate to complex business issues.
• Provide the team an analysis of business and user needs, elicitation, organization and documentation of business requirements, process flows, and translation of business requirements into functional requirements to capture what the team discussed and agreed upon.
• Support solution and functional specification definition.
• When available, you will review impacted systems technical and logical design for the ability to lead through creating or updating system/process/data flow diagrams with minimal support.
• Utilize basic SQL skills to perform data queries that are simple to medium in complexity to support analysis as needed throughout all phases of the project.
• You will support design, build, and test phases for assigned projects.
• Collaborate with project managers to develop detailed project information for their task assignments.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a directly related field required.
• 10+ years' experience as a senior level analyst in business analysis, business systems, or both.
• 3+ years' experience using Microsoft Office application Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint, Outlook, PowerPoint, online collaboration tools, IM, etc.
• 3+ years' experience with excellent meeting facilitation and communication skills.
• IIBA certification will be really nice to have.
• Must have strong and creative problem solving skills.
• Highly experienced in eliciting and being able to pick out requirements in a conversation, not necessarily being literally told what the requirement is.
• Proven experience in creating epics, user stories and acceptance within tools such as JIRA.
• Comprehensive understanding of best practices related to release and change management, software development life cycle, workflow and process modeling and diagrams.
• Knowledge of financial services industry in one or more of the following: Brokerage Services, Wealth Management, Advisory, trading .
• Comprehensive understanding of best practices related to release and change management, software development life cycle, workflow and process modeling and diagrams.