Finance Business Analyst

Our Client, a Tier-1 Investment Bank located in Jersey City, NJ, is looking for a team of Business Analysts and Financial Reporting professionals to join several of their growing projects.One project is focused on improving the investment bank's global month end close process, with the goal of cutting the current process time in half. Another deals with an effort to merge the bank's broker dealers.The Business Analysts in these groups has broad-based responsibilities for the design, specification and deployment of these Finance initiatives. She/he will work as a team member of projects. This includes:Elicit, analyse, and document user requirements and business processes.Undertake data assessment, data gap analysis and remediation.Develop business specification requirements for IT development and to ensure user requirements are met.Plan and manage User Acceptance Testing and migration testing up to successful delivery of end product.Manage issues and escalate effectively.Participate in project planning and cost estimates.Ensure on-time quality delivery of projects and activities assigned.Report on and monitor project status on regular basis (weekly) as to inform all stakeholders of ongoing program updates.Liaise with cross-functional teams (business groups, IT and PMO organizations) in New York, New Jersey, California, Montreal, Mumbai, London and Paris.#LI-LM1