Job Description

Hello,

We are from Mavinsys Talent Acquisition team based on One World Trade Centre, New York. We are specializing in IT services and staffing majorly in lateral hiring/contract. Below is one of our requirement to fill immediately, if you're interested, please share your candidature to joinus@mavinsys.com

Job Title:  Business Analyst Premium

Location:  Washington, DC

Duration: 12months

Job Description;

1. Act as Business Analyst for Capital Markets line of business within Treasury. Specifically, this includes Liquidity Management, Issuances,

buybacks, derivatives, valuations of issuances/buybacks/ derivatives, trade life cycle, accounting, debt allocation as well as applications associated with

these capabilities.

2. Build stakeholder consensus and ensure everyone is on the same page, in agreement, and can visualize the solution being proposed.

3. Develop business cases, requirements, use cases, test plans, test strategies, test cases, and operational procedures and plans.

4. Coordinate with fiduciary reviewers like Enterprise Architects, OIS by providing them the information using their artifacts and support related security 

testing.

5. Participate in the procurement of COTS solution where necessary including preparation of Request for Proposals (RFP), cost estimates, benefits 

realization summary, inputs for procurement committee, and IT Governance.

6. Ability to effectively prioritize requirements and maintain scope on a tight leash.

7. Document business processes and workflows

8. Collaborate with Project Managers, Tech Leads, Solution Architects, Developers etc to determine if solutions currently exist (internally or externally) or 

whether new solutions are feasible to meet business requirements and meet project milestones and timelines.

9. Leverage rapid prototyping approaches to present as-is/to-be processes/workflows and rough designs of the proposed solution.

10. Provide overall support to ensure the successful design, testing, and implementation of applications that support the business unit, Also, provide 

support in developing training materials and conducting training.

11. Maintain a comprehensive chronological trail of requirements and agreements and actively contribute to the project change control process. 

Document and manage issues and actions.

12. Participate in the evaluation of new products or initiatives to determine the technology support required.

13. Evaluate applications and IT environments and analyze gaps between current and desired states.

14. Propose recommendations based on industry best practices.

15. Coordinate with vendors and oversee their deliverables. (This includes reviewing proposed solutions and delivered code.)

Knowledge Required and Selection Criteria:

• The nature of this function demands that it be led by a Business Analyst with keen business analytic ability to ensure that 

opportunities are seized to optimize efficiency, effectiveness (elimination of redundant tasks), and outstanding communication skills. This 

requires that the candidate have: (i) excellent knowledge of capital markets business; (ii) up-to-date, best practice experience with SDLC; (iii) 

a robust, cross-functional perspective to be able to bridge the business to information technology gap; and (iv) a perceptive and diplomatic 

ability to prioritize requirements.

• The candidate must possess a good control of changing corporate objectives in a dynamic marketplace. Moreover, the candidate 

must exhibit a clear comprehension and appreciation for the postulates and practice of IT Governance.

• Candidate must have a deep understanding and experience with Project Management and its many facets.

• External and Internal Ratings

• Front & Back Office Business Processes

• Reporting & Downstream Datamarts

• Market Data

• Plain Vanilla & Structured Instruments (Bonds & Swaps with Complex Payouts/Optionality)

• Trade Lifecycle

• Trade Capture (Pega, MarkitWire)

• Settlement & Settlement Messaging (SWIFT)

• Accounting (In-House Subledger)

• Treasury & Capital Markets (Fixed-Income & derivatives)

• Risk management more specifically Liquidity risk

• WB Loans products including IDA products and processes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Finance, MBA or related field, 8+ years of professional experience in Capital markets domain.

• Excellent communication skills (verbal & written). 

• Solid experience as a Business Analyst

• Be adept at presenting agreed concepts to senior audiences and ensuring that the business architecture definitions are clear, and signed off, with 

any assumptions or dependencies clearly identified and mitigated.

• Teamwork and Consensus Building: As a multinational, multicultural institution, success at the World Bank requires the ability to negotiate and 

facilitate trade-offs and build consensus and commitment to a recommended direction among multiple stakeholders, with broadly divergent frames of 

reference. The candidate must also embrace and foster respect for all, including diversity in age, gender and origin, and have a record of developing and 

mentoring staff to ensure career development and succession planning.

• Personal Integrity & Effectiveness: Highest personal and professional integrity as demonstrated through strong personal values, as well as 

consistent words and actions. Build and sustain strong collegial working relationships, and be comfortable approaching others assertively, responsibly 

and supportively.

• Proven conceptual, analytical and judgmental skills.

• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and SQL is required.

• Excellent personal organization skills and ability to take things to closure without follow-ups.

Additional qualifications;

• CFA candidate or degree in Risk Management.

• Strong Organizational Skills and Business Judgment: Ability to distinguish between what is and is not critical, and to balance on both strategic 

and short-term issues. A track record of delivering results under stressful timetables.

• Strategic Vision: Must have a track record of understanding and translating client's business needs into a coherent IT vision with deliverables.

• Desirable knowledge of VBA, PL/SQL, and reporting tools such as Tableau, Power BI.

• Knowledge of a Capital Markets trading system (such as Murex or Summit).

• Knowledge and experience in the area of Project Management.

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