Business Analysis Associate Director - Data Strategy

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and
supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At
DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets.  We're
committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have
the skills and drive to make a real impact.  We foster a thriving internal
community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world
that we serve.

FR&G Business Analysis is responsible for partnering with financial risk
management users, subject matter experts, technology and specific business and
product areas to support financial risk management related projects. Business
Analysis liaise with stakeholders to assess, analyze, capture, document,
communicate, coordinate, validate and deliver business, regulatory, audit and
system requirements for financial risk management application. The business
analysis role specializes in acting as the primary interface between technology
and business areas enabling change in an organization context, by defining needs
and recommending solutions that can deliver value and help improve decision
making process to stakeholders. Business Analysts also contributes to the
finalization of supporting documentation such as risk assessments for such
technology-related projects as well as associated user testing.

NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details
above.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Strong understanding of risk-focused testing environments and SDLC
• Ability to translate complex business and risk requirements into testable outcomes
• Proven ownership of planning, execution, and validation activities
• Clear communicator with strong stakeholder and documentation skills
• Detail-oriented, risk-minded, and comfortable challenging assumptions
• Growth mindset with interest in automation and process improvement

Responsibilities

• Consult with business users and collaborate with them for eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, business analysis, and workflow analysis.
• Draft business requirements and user stories with applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with business subject matter experts and information technology.
• Specializes in acting as the primary interface between information technology and business areas for requirement discussion.
• Understand software development and technical concepts and communicate them to non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to the creation and support of detailed documentation which support business processes, requirements, and project enhancements.
• Partner with cross-functional business teams, risk business analysts, and technology delivery teams to support all aspects of business requirement gathering and user acceptance testing.
• Review requirements from business users’ perspective to ensure the testing plans cover business requirements and work in alignment with business users to identify and document business test cases and their testing approach.
• Oversee and take ownership of end-to-end test case development and execution, including coordinating end-to-end testing efforts with internal and external interfaces.
• Communicate effectively with partners with status of testing and any concerns that will affect quality or timeliness.
• Prepare the data within the environment necessary to test application functionality for larger and more complex systems and assist in coordinating the implementation of changes to improve performance.
• Plan, organize, estimate, and implement business validation, including test case execution and documentation, business validation status reporting and tracking, recording and analyzing of results of testing sessions, preparing and presenting results.
• Provide input into user sign-off required to approve production implementations.
• Perform implementation validation and post implementation support.
• Provide regression testing of product changes.
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Coordinate with the Counterparty Credit Risk and Systemic Risk teams to understand business needs and opportunities for automation.
• Conduct training and oversee demos of new automation to ensure the CCR and SRO teams' understanding of the new functionality.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees