Iris's client, one of the world's largest multinational investment banking and financial services corporation is looking to hire a Senior Business Analyst for a Long-Term opportunity.

Work location : Irving, TX (Hybrid Onsite)

W2 or Self-Incorporated Only

Job Description:

The Lead Business Analyst is a senior-level position responsible for liaising between business users and technology teams to exchange information in a concise, logical and understandable way. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to continuous iterative exploration and investigation of business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.

Responsibilities:

• Develop creative technical solutions to meet business needs and manage complex, high volume applications in partnership with all relevant stakeholders
• Manage multiple work stream and applications across geographies under Compliance Risk
• Contribute to formulation of strategies/processes for Product Roadmap, Development and Governance and contribute to defining standards and new automation initiatives
• Develop communication to guide, influence and convince others, including colleagues in other areas and teams
• Provide counsel on activities related to the technology operations of the business
• Filter, prioritize, and validate potentially complex material from multiple sources
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy.
• Applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices.
• Operates as a representative of the product team with development teams
• Managing daily activities, while reporting issues and escalating when necessary, with transparency.
• Leads Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning by owning the sprint coordination of key initiatives and is actively involved in other Scrum ceremonies
• Responsible for backlog health, breaking down Epics into User Stories, and defining acceptance criteria for the stories with Product Manager’s guidance
• Performs UAT reviews to make sure the user stories are accurately deployed
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communication with ability to clearly articulate problem statements and solutions for sr. stakeholders
• Candidate must have professional speaking skills
• Empathic listener and a persuasive speaker. Ability to speak in large groups with many SMEs in attendance
• Excellent presentation and negotiation skills and provide factual statements
• Work independently and able to manage and work through ambiguity
• 6-10 years of experience as Business Analyst or Product Owner in the domains of financial services, risk management and related fields
• Demonstrated expertise using project management and issue tracking tools
• Agile mindset: infuse agile principles, practices and methodologies to achieve team success