Business Analyst – Investment Banking & Wealth Management
The Business Analyst will act as a bridge between business stakeholders, technology teams, operations, and product owners to deliver data-driven solutions across investment banking and wealth management platforms. The role requires strong domain understanding, SQL-based data analysis, requirement gathering, process documentation, and support for system enhancements, reporting, and regulatory or business transformation initiatives.
· Gather, analyze, and document business requirements for investment banking and wealth management applications.
· Work closely with front office, middle office, operations, risk, compliance, and technology teams to translate business needs into functional specifications.
· Perform SQL queries to analyze data, validate business rules, support reconciliations, and investigate production or reporting issues.
· Create BRDs, FRDs, user stories, process flows, data mapping documents, and test scenarios.
· Support enhancements related to trade lifecycle, client onboarding, portfolio management, investment products, reporting, settlements, reconciliation, and regulatory requirements.
· Coordinate with development and QA teams during solution design, sprint planning, testing, defect triage, and implementation.
· Conduct UAT planning and execution, including test case preparation, stakeholder walkthroughs, and sign-off coordination.
· Identify process gaps, recommend improvements, and support automation or digital transformation initiatives.
· Prepare dashboards, reports, and presentations for stakeholders using business and data insights.
· Strong business analysis experience in banking, capital markets, investment banking, or wealth management domains.
· Hands-on SQL skills for data extraction, validation, analysis, joins, aggregations, and issue investigation.
· Good understanding of investment products such as equities, fixed income, mutual funds, structured products, derivatives, or portfolio services.
· Knowledge of trade lifecycle, client lifecycle, KYC/AML, settlements, reconciliation, risk, compliance, and reporting processes.
· Experience working with Agile/Scrum teams and tools such as Jira, Confluence, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, or similar platforms.
· Ability to write clear business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases.
· Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
· Exposure to wealth management platforms, advisory workflows, portfolio performance, asset allocation, or client reporting.
· Understanding of investment banking processes such as deal lifecycle, trade capture, confirmations, settlements, regulatory reporting, and risk controls.
· Ability to work with large datasets and collaborate with data engineering, reporting, and application development teams.
· Experience in stakeholder workshops, requirement elicitation, gap analysis, impact analysis, and post-implementation support.
· Strong business analysis experience in banking, capital markets, investment banking, or wealth management domains.
· Hands-on SQL skills for data extraction, validation, analysis, joins, aggregations, and issue investigation.
· Good understanding of investment products such as equities, fixed income, mutual funds, structured products, derivatives, or portfolio services.
· Knowledge of trade lifecycle, client lifecycle, KYC/AML, settlements, reconciliation, risk, compliance, and reporting processes.
· Experience working with Agile/Scrum teams and tools such as Jira, Confluence, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, or similar platforms.
· Ability to write clear business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases.
· Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
