EDM Professional Services Business Analyst

Contenu de l'offre EDM Professional Services Business Analyst chez IHS Markit

Company Overview

IHS Markit harnesses deep sources of information, analytics and expertise to forge solutions for the industries and markets that drive global economies. Our company partners with clients in business, finance and government to provide the unrivalled insights and perspectives that lead to well-informed, confident decisions. We call this The New Intelligence. IHS Markit serves more than 50,000 key customers in more than 140 countries, including 80 percent of the Fortune Global 500. We help decision makers apply higher-level thinking to daily tasks and strategic issues across a host of industries and disciplines including energy, finance, automotive, engineering, technology, maritime and trade, aerospace and defence, chemical, and economics and country risk. Headquartered in London, IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) is committed to sustainable, profitable growth.

Department overview:

The IHS Markit Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform puts quality, audited data at the centre of customer’s organizations. Its solutions build gold copy masters across all data types, delivering tangible data governance, risk management and compliance frameworks and rationalizing legacy architectures. The EDM platform is the central hub for all transactions, securities, prices, rates, counterparty and issuer data. Markit EDM empowers those who understand the data to manage the data, no matter the complexity, volume or scope of the project.

Position Summary

A Business Analyst Consultant within the EDM Professional Services group is responsible for gathering user and business requirements, support the prioritization of project backlogs, produce user stories and acceptance criteria and support the delivery of the EDM Product Suite. Good domain knowledge of Financial Service business operations is essential. While the employee will be based out of one of IHS Markit offices, the role will be one that is on-site with clients Monday through Friday thus involving travel within the EMEA region. Projects can last between five to eight months on average. Language skills would be advantageous.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with clients and internal team members to identify and analyse business and technical needs through workshops, interviews, documentation analysis and other techniques. Document and validate business, functional, and non-functional requirements to ensure that the requirements are clear, comprehensive, and testable. Participate in Scrum events, including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. Write User Stories and acceptance criteria. Assist the team in estimation, planning, and project management. Work with development and other team members to help translate requirements into software specifications. Work with Project team to ensure clear and comprehensive test cases. Provide support to Implementation Consultants to maximize team productivity and ensure on-time delivery. Assist with client-facing documentation, including users guides and marketing material. Act as a liaison between business and technology groups to facilitate communication both ways. Review client change requests. Facilitate meetings and ensure decisions/actions are captured, communicated and tracked.

Qualifications:

3+ years experience working as a product / business analyst. Strong writer with the ability to explain complex issues clearly and concisely and to translate technical issue to non-technical stakeholders. Experience with Scrum and other Agile methodologies. Strong project management experience. Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point in time. Strong relationship building and communication skills. Broad range of product / business analysis skills, methodologies and techniques including gap analysis, feasibility studies, use case modelling, UML diagramming, etc. Experience in managing and delivering successful and complex technology projects. Experience with JIRA, or similar work tracking systems. Experience with Confluence, SharePoint, or similar collaboration tools. Querying languages such as SQL desired but not required. Data Management experience desired but not required. Financial industry experience is required. University degree, or equivalent experience.

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