PA2025HTQ3150 - Senior Business Systems Analyst

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

SS&C GIDS – Senior Business Analyst

Company Overview

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Reports to:

Scrum Master/Delivery Manager

Opportunity snapshot:

The successful candidate will perform a leadership role in the programme working alongside client-side business analysts, business system analysts and solution architects in order to effectively perform and oversee analysis and design techniques to solve complex business solutions. .

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the output of System Business analysts to ensure high quality deliverables that increase business value and align with the strategic product direction
• Assessing, validating and improving requirement quality against analysis standards and best practices. 
• Substantial recent experience in complex business system analysis and functional design working across the full project lifecycle on a complex, multi-year programme.
• Planning programme BA activities for a multi-year complex programme
• Analysing / validating business solutions and contributing to other written business deliverables necessary to increase the business value and/or ensure quality of services and solutions
• Understanding of IT systems, databases and infrastructure including complex system architectures involving the integration of multiple systems (including third parties)
• Highly proficient and able to coach others in solution analysis techniques include Use Cases, UML Modelling Diagrams, User Interface Design, Domain Modelling, Logical data modelling and Business Rules modelling
• Functional design documentation and user story development including acceptance criteria
• Process modelling including BPMN
• Workshop facilitation and solution demonstration 'play back'
• Requirement Traceability and change management
• Working understanding of requirement management tools (JIRA, Confluence)

Domain Knowledge

• Domain knowledge in one or more the following areas will assist a Lead Business Analyst in the role.
• Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit Plans Funds management
• Annuity and Pension Products
• Personal wealth investments such as Unit Trust and Managed Funds
• Platform/Wrap Account Products which enable an investor to hold assets across multiple managers and trade directly with the share market. 

• Lead Business System Analysts in the role typically have more than 8+ years of formal business analysis experience, working with project teams of more than 10 people.
• Experience of working with internationally distributed teams is critical.
• Experience working within an Agile delivery environment is also an advantage.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent customer engagement skills.
• Driven and will engage in self-learning.
• Willing to travel internationally, work outside local time zone hours and to spend time on client sites

Key behaviours:

• Instils Trust – contribute to building a safe learning environment in the business where the team can be listened to and understood.
• Collaborate – Must be able to work in a co-operative manner with both internal and external teams and take all views and interests into account when formulating outcomes.
• Ensure Accountability – Must take full ownership of their assigned responsibilities and the outcomes that are generated and pursued
• Customer Focus – Must understand customer and partner needs from both a functional and operational perspective.
• Communicate Effectively – Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently, both in written and verbal forms, across all levels of an organisation and all sizes of groups. Must also be able to listen to others and evidence that they have understood the needs communicated appropriately

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.