2 Contract Performance Business Analysts

Client is a well established and rapidly growing financial firm in Boston.

2 contract positions open.


This is a seasoned BA who has specialized knowledge of investment performance and analysis including experience in the areas of asset allocation; asset classes; absolute return strategies; and performance measurement, attribution, and evaluation.

2 contractors needed for the development of the new Global Performance Reporting System. New system development is currently in the early, early stages of requirements gathering/documentation.

Primary Responsibilities:
* Work with business users to develop and document business rules and requirements for performing investment performance analysis
* Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
* Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true business needs.
* Utilize a broad-based knowledge of enterprise-wide requirements definition processes and methodologies to analyze information needs, business objectives, and requirements to document all project artifacts (such as Functional requirements, Business Rules, Use Cases, and Interface designs)
* Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams and serve as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow.
* Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs that may be required to meet business needs.

Mandatory Requirements:
* Minimum of five years of investment-related experience in the financial services industry
* Specialized knowledge of investment performance and analysis including experience in the areas of asset allocation; asset classes; absolute return strategies; and performance measurement, attribution, and evaluation
* Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.

Desirable Requirements:
* Professional certification as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or progress towards that certification is highly desirable
* A Certificate Investment in Investment Performance Management (CIPM) is very highly desirable

Skills and Competencies:
* Extremely strong interpersonal, interviewing, and listening skills
* Proven ability to work directly with the business community, handle demanding user groups, and communicate with internal clients at all enterprise levels
* Writing skills, capability to communicate information effectively and provide quality documentation of processes, UML preferred
* Organizational skills, strong attention to detail, ability to prioritize multiple tasks, handle diverse situations, set goals, and meet deadlines
* Attention to process and procedures to comply with internal/external audits


Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.