Saxon Global
Business Analyst
Saxon Global, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45208
Title: Business AnalystGENERAL FUNCTION:
This role is a member of the team responsible to support the FTP (Funds Transfer Pricing) technical processes. FTP is a critical bank methodology used in product pricing, liquidity, funding management, balance sheet management and profitability management. It helps in accurately measuring a financial institutions profitability on deposits and loans by assessing the cost or credit of funds.
This role requires interacting with business partners on a regular basis to understand business asks for analysis from monthly/weekend cycles, translate new requirements to technical execution and to facilitate testing. Expect to investigate, identify root causes, explain to the LOB and identify mitigations for any incidents and problem tickets related to FTP calculations. Strong verbal and written communications are required to explain analysis. Maintain & communicate the application backlog. Drives for continuous improvement.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Supports and recommends priorities for application backlog, where backlog includes both business and technical needs. Participate in team prioritization decisions.Defines and coordinates work requirements by identifying milestones, phases, and elements.Manage and execute monthly manual cycle processing, validations and reruns at the beginning of each month. Resolve issues. Identify and support opportunities to automate monthly cycle processing.Support, as needed, weekend cycle processing.Manage and resolve incident tickets and service requests to SLA's, Level 2 Help Desk.Write SQL scripts to analyze data directly from the DB, in order to resolve incidents and service requests.Understand inbound/outbound data, and maintain relationships with respective IT teams.Read and interpret inbound/outbound ETL for analysis and incident resolutionMaintains system protocols by writing and updating both business and IT proceduresWrite and maintain user documentation. Train users.Maintain access and communicate with software vendor via their website, as required.Support basic application management functions including access management, governance and environment management. Partner with the technical lead as required.Attend team operational ceremonies like daily team meetings and monthly backlog planning, including regular connections with LOB partners.MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
Experience writing SQL scripts, to pull data for analysis. Able to navigate Oracle DB's.Understand ITIL basicsUnderstand Software Development MethodologiesExperience documenting user requirements, and partnering with technical teams to translate business requirements to technical requirementsExperience with Excel, used for data analysis & data uploadsDemonstrated problem solving skillsDemonstrated collaboration skillsDemonstrated ability to learn fastExcellent verbal and written communication skillsExperience with Finance processes, especially FTP, a plusBachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Finance or comparable. At least 1-2 years of experience preferably in Banking/Finance industry a plus.Experience with Finance processes, especially FTP, a plusExperience with ticketing systems, ServiceNow experience is a plusUnderstand workload schedulers. TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler) experience is a plusUnderstand on-call tracking applications, EverBridge experience is a plusUnderstand system monitoring tools, SiteScope experience is a plusUnderstand File Transfer Services. IBM Sterling experience is a plusUnderstand ETL, IBM Datastage experience a plusExperience supporting user needs of applications, a plus
Required Skills : - SQL - Strong BA skills - Good soft skills - Good at documentation - Very detailed orientedBasic Qualification :Additional Skills :Background Check :YesDrug Screen :YesNotes :Selling points for candidate :Project Verification Info :Candidate must be your W2 Employee :YesExclusive to Apex :NoFace to face interview required :NoCandidate must be local :NoCandidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::NoInterview times set : :NoType of project :Development/EngineeringMaster Job Title :Bus. Analyst: TechnicalBranch Code :Cincinnati
This role is a member of the team responsible to support the FTP (Funds Transfer Pricing) technical processes. FTP is a critical bank methodology used in product pricing, liquidity, funding management, balance sheet management and profitability management. It helps in accurately measuring a financial institutions profitability on deposits and loans by assessing the cost or credit of funds.
This role requires interacting with business partners on a regular basis to understand business asks for analysis from monthly/weekend cycles, translate new requirements to technical execution and to facilitate testing. Expect to investigate, identify root causes, explain to the LOB and identify mitigations for any incidents and problem tickets related to FTP calculations. Strong verbal and written communications are required to explain analysis. Maintain & communicate the application backlog. Drives for continuous improvement.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Supports and recommends priorities for application backlog, where backlog includes both business and technical needs. Participate in team prioritization decisions.Defines and coordinates work requirements by identifying milestones, phases, and elements.Manage and execute monthly manual cycle processing, validations and reruns at the beginning of each month. Resolve issues. Identify and support opportunities to automate monthly cycle processing.Support, as needed, weekend cycle processing.Manage and resolve incident tickets and service requests to SLA's, Level 2 Help Desk.Write SQL scripts to analyze data directly from the DB, in order to resolve incidents and service requests.Understand inbound/outbound data, and maintain relationships with respective IT teams.Read and interpret inbound/outbound ETL for analysis and incident resolutionMaintains system protocols by writing and updating both business and IT proceduresWrite and maintain user documentation. Train users.Maintain access and communicate with software vendor via their website, as required.Support basic application management functions including access management, governance and environment management. Partner with the technical lead as required.Attend team operational ceremonies like daily team meetings and monthly backlog planning, including regular connections with LOB partners.MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
Experience writing SQL scripts, to pull data for analysis. Able to navigate Oracle DB's.Understand ITIL basicsUnderstand Software Development MethodologiesExperience documenting user requirements, and partnering with technical teams to translate business requirements to technical requirementsExperience with Excel, used for data analysis & data uploadsDemonstrated problem solving skillsDemonstrated collaboration skillsDemonstrated ability to learn fastExcellent verbal and written communication skillsExperience with Finance processes, especially FTP, a plusBachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Finance or comparable. At least 1-2 years of experience preferably in Banking/Finance industry a plus.Experience with Finance processes, especially FTP, a plusExperience with ticketing systems, ServiceNow experience is a plusUnderstand workload schedulers. TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler) experience is a plusUnderstand on-call tracking applications, EverBridge experience is a plusUnderstand system monitoring tools, SiteScope experience is a plusUnderstand File Transfer Services. IBM Sterling experience is a plusUnderstand ETL, IBM Datastage experience a plusExperience supporting user needs of applications, a plus
Required Skills : - SQL - Strong BA skills - Good soft skills - Good at documentation - Very detailed orientedBasic Qualification :Additional Skills :Background Check :YesDrug Screen :YesNotes :Selling points for candidate :Project Verification Info :Candidate must be your W2 Employee :YesExclusive to Apex :NoFace to face interview required :NoCandidate must be local :NoCandidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::NoInterview times set : :NoType of project :Development/EngineeringMaster Job Title :Bus. Analyst: TechnicalBranch Code :Cincinnati