As an International financial services organisation, FastBank has a trading business unit dedicated to high net worth and corporate customers. Due to extensive growth we are investing in a number of significant system upgrades and replacements, particularly our Equities systems.
Main Responsibilities The role objective is to identify, solicit, document and implements functional and non-functional requirements for a recent Equities system. The successful applicant will have the following responsibilities:
- The elicitation and documentation of concise functional and non-functional requirements for the problem/solution, particularly in the use of use-cases.
- Identify, understand and document current and future operational processes.
- Use exceptional communication and negotiation skills to interface between IT and the business to ensure all needs are identified and documented
- Map data and process flows and translate the requirements into statements of work;
- Prepare user acceptance testing processes and documentation through workshops and sessions with key end-user groups in order to ensure the delivery of business requirements.
Experience, Skills and Knowledge: MANDATORY
- Tertiary qualification in a Computing discipline
- In depth knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience in writing use case and models with UML
- Experience working as a Business Analyst within financial services environments for large systems implementations
HIGHLY DESIRABLE
- Exposure to Agile development environments
- Understanding of Rational tools and processes, ideally RUP
- Knowledge of Equities