Data Sourcing / Analyst / BA

$142,000 - $196,000/Yr

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Jersey City, NJ

10,001+ employees

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Data Sourcing / Analyst / BA position at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) involves delivering business and data analysis for strategic projects and enhancements across financial products. The role requires facilitating agile activities, managing project lifecycles, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure successful project execution. The analyst will also document test plans, conduct training sessions, and support production implementation.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of business and data analysis for strategic projects and enhancements across financial products.
• Facilitate daily/weekly Developer scrums, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support agile activities, including user story creation, acceptance criteria definition, product backlog grooming, and identifying key dependencies and risks.
• Lead new projects from inception through go live, managing the project lifecycle across authoring Project Initiation Documents/Business Requirements Documents, Status Reports, and leading Front to Back UAT across Users/Developers.
• Coordinate with Department stakeholders to track milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Collaborate with senior management Delivery Leads on the creation of the solution roadmap and providing timely status of deliverables related to roadmap execution.
• Document QA test plans and execute test cases.
• Liaise with business users to create test plans, manage testing, and track defects, enhancements, and questions.
• Write user documentation and conduct training sessions on new functionality as needed.
• Assist with production implementation & coordinate user validation across impacted Control Functions.
• Participate in general BA work including production support and BAU enhancements of in-house business applications.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in bank capital markets as a Project Manager / Business Analyst with experience in system implementations or equivalent operational experience.
• Strong work ethic with focus on meeting deadlines and objectives, and ability to learn new products and systems in a timely manner.
• Strong Products experience and Business Analyst experience in Capital Markets specific to derivatives/Equities/Securities.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively and confidently with users and team members.
• Strong skills working with MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, MS Power Point & SharePoint.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, MBA, Computer Science, or Information Systems preferred.

Benefits

• Work from home
• Competitive portfolio of benefits
• Annual discretionary incentive award