Application Programmer V - Apex Systems

Job#: 2025571

Job Description:

Apex Systems is hiring for a Functional Analyst for a top Fortune 500 banking client of ours in Jersey City, New Jersey. Please apply directly to this posting and attach your most updated resume.

Contract: 12 months

Location: Hybrid (3 days per week onsite) in Jersey City
Pay Rate: $60-68/hr 

Description: Role Overview (Functional Analyst)

The successful candidate will define the end to end business functional requirements to support the target business process within Treasury. The candidate will contribute to the software development lifecycle of products and services from inception stage through to the final implementation. The candidate would be required to work closely with the developers to define, build and test the solution often working on multiple projects/work-streams at the same time.

The role requires:

• A mindset built on simplicity reuse
• Proficiency to work with Senior Business stakeholders and translate business needs into technical requirements
• Leadership skills to manage ad-hoc analysis or design deep dives
• Understanding of the development lifecycle to ensure the designs are practical adopted by the delivery teams

Responsibilities include:

• Creating and maintaining business requirements (functional
• technical) in partnership and collaboration with the business and obtaining sign-off
• Responsible for creating functional solutions, conducting FSD walk-through and obtaining sign-off
• Act as an SME in various capacities and identify product development opportunities
• Responsible for working with the developers to ensure correct understanding of requirements and then owning the functional delivery end to end
• Defining testing requirements together with the QA team
• Building and maintaining strong relationship with business to ensure alignment with business requirements and project management resources
• Establishing and operate within the governance (decision making)structure for the program/project and manage/escalate issues and risks.
• Contribute in design and development of the project-level roadmap, ensuring sufficient business benefit is realized within each phase.
• Ensure projects are completed according to product specifications and are properly documented.
• Work with data sourcing to source and validate data completeness from acquisition to report delivery.
• Work with Stakeholders during UAT to ensure reports meet requirements and ensure all deliveries are signed-off.

Required skills:

• 10+ years experience with at least 3+ years experience as a BA/FA
• Delivery focused techno-functional role. Candidates must have experience in Oracle/PL SQL or ETL/Informatica or Java
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Deep understanding of Capital Markets with focus on Credit Risk, Market Risk or Capital calculations
• Understanding of regulations within the Capital Markets space (Basel, CRR, CRD IV etc)
• Attention to detail and self-starter, with an ability to identify risks and issues and suggest improvements.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, networking and influencing skills
• Ability to work across multiple business groups and domains
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment and work under pressure
• Collaborative, with an ability to share information, transfer knowledge and train new team members
• Proven ability to balance business demands of different stakeholders and IT fulfilment in terms of standardization, reducing risk and increasing IT flexibility
• Experience building high-performance, enterprise applications at scale.

EEO Employer

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