Job Description
Business Systems Analyst
About the Job
Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd delivers top jobs to top talent. We are currently sourcing talented IT, Engineering, and Healthcare professionals who are qualified for and interested in exciting new opportunities.
Zylog represents hundreds of client companies that are actively seeking top professional talent for both contract and permanent positions with experience in IT, Engineering, Retail, Bank and Finance, Insurance, Oil & Gas, Telecommunications, Government and Health Services. New positions are coming available every day and our experienced professional resource managers are waiting to help you screen the top jobs that match your skills for the best opportunities.
You don’t have the time to search the long lists on Job Boards everyday to look through all of the postings to find the opportunity that is best for you. Let our trained and experienced resource managers do the work for you. We are reviewing top jobs from Fortune 500, Government, and Healthcare as each opening becomes available. Let us look for new opportunities for you and be the first to alert you when the right opportunity arises.
Job Description:
Our client has a requirement for Senior Business Systems Analyst for a 6 month contract opportunity. The positions are located in downtown Toronto.
The role will involve:
- Analysis and documentation of the models used. Reconciliation with the model used by our derivative trading system.
- Model vetting request submissions to the quantitative analytics group
- Interacting with the quantitative analytics representative to test and vet valuation models.
Requirement or Qualifications:
- A strong quantitative background and solid understanding of financial products will be required. Products will include: FX, Bonds (Callable / FRN / Inflation linked with various currency conventions)
- Comfort working with a financial trading systems
- Excellent Excel Skills
- Strong Communication and writing skills
- Develop use cases, defining and documenting user procedures and workflows, and how each class of user interacts with east system function.
- Ensure Business Recovery Plans are in place.
- Integrate technical solutions with the business environment, recognizing systems design and data interdependencies and reusability.
- Establish appropriate security levels for processes, information exchange and system implementation.
- Define, review and influence standards and quality measures/metrics.
- Assist in the development of conversion and implementation strategies. Conduct pre and post implementation reviews, ensuring all technical solutions have met business requirements. Supports system implementation and production readiness by liaising with change management, IT architecture and desktop standards, and the business.
- Develop test plans, test cases, perform testing. Provide user documentation, user training, and post implementation support.
- Collaborate with business leaders, IT professionals, and vendors ensuring that management is kept informed of project status and that problems and issues are escalated appropriately and clearly communicated.
SKILLS: Experience in financial services/banking (i.e retail lending, fixed income trading etc..). Experience in QA and testing. Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Strong presentation and communications skills. Collaborative team building skills. Proficiency in MS Office tools
Short-listing Questions
3-5 yrs of experience in analysing & querying complex data using Access, SQL Server & Excel? *
Yes
YesNo
Ability to work with financial trading systems? *
Yes
YesNo
BS degree in Finance, Economics or Accounting? *
If they have MBA in Finance or MBA in Economics, please add in the comment section
Yes
YesNo
Financial industry experience - in particular Pricing & Valuation experience *
Pls provide in summary
Yes
YesNo
Has an understanding of valuation of interest rate & currency derivatives? *
pls elaborate in comment section
Yes
YesNo
Has strong Quantitative background? *
Yes
YesNo
Knowledge of Interest Rate Derivatives & Fixed Income Securities *
including trade capture, risk, pricing/valuations and operations-settlements, confirms, and Finance. Pls expand in your comment section.
Yes
YesNo
Solid understanding of financial products? *
Financial products such as: - FX - Bonds (Callable/FRN/Inflation linked with various currency conventions?
Yes
YesNo
Skills
Business Analysis Experience *
8+ Yrs.
(-8) Yrs.
Communication skills *
please indicate communication ratings from 1 to 5, 5 is excellent in the comment section.
0 (No Familiarity) of 5 (Expert)
0 (Click for No Familiarity) of 0 (Click for No Familiarity)
Data Modeling *
5+ Yrs.
(-5) Yrs.
Excel *
8+ Yrs.
(-8) Yrs.
Fixed Income Trading *
5+ Yrs.
(-5) Yrs.
Microsoft Office *
10+ Yrs.
(-10) Yrs.
QA *
10+ Yrs.
(-10) Yrs.
Testing *
10+ Yrs.
(-10) Yrs.
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Company Overview:
Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd. is a leading provider of IT, Engineering, and Health professional services, human capital resource management applications, and technology solutions with global delivery capability. Leveraging ISO 9001:2000 certified processes, industry best practices, and ownership of one of the largest professional talent databases in Canada; we are dedicated to the progress of our clients, consultants, and our community.
Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd has provided government and private industry clients with highly regarded and capable professional resources, services and solutions for over 29 years.
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