Senior Business Analyst - Market/Reference Data

 SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC Rail Services LLC, Manufacturers Bank, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $114,000.00 and $189,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

SMBC is in process of leading a Digital Transformation across our Americas Division as we continue to modernize our technology, focus on our data-driven approach, grow and plan for the future. As a result of this expansion, we are seeking a Senior Business Analyst for Data Strategy team. In this position you will be responsible for rigorously executing upon and managing a portfolio of prioritized data strategy and data management initiatives as a lead Business Analyst, working closely with senior stakeholders across Technology, Risk and business users across SMBC Americas, as well as guiding junior staff. The ideal candidate should have broad knowledge and understanding of various instrument asset classes like Fixed Income, Equity, Funds, FX, Derivatives such as IR Swaps and pricing data.

Role Objectives

• Business and Data analysis for strategic data projects and enhancements across financial products.
• Lead new projects from inception through go live, managing the project lifecycle across authoring project initiation documents, business requirements documents, status reports, leading front to back UAT across users and developers.
• Collaborate with senior management, delivery leads on the creation of the solution roadmap and providing timely status of deliverables related to roadmap execution.
• Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with business and technology stakeholders.
• Facilitate daily/weekly developer scrums, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support agile activities, including user story creation, acceptance criteria definition, product backlog grooming, and identifying key dependencies and risks.
• Document QA test plans and execute test cases. Liaise with business users to create test plans, manage testing, and track defects, enhancements, and questions.
• Participate in general BA work including production support and BAU enhancements of in-house business applications.
• Write user documentation and conduct training sessions on new functionality as needed.
• Assist with production implementation & coordinate user validation across impacted Control Functions
• Participate in general BA work including production support and BAU enhancements of in-house business applications.

Qualifications and Skills

• 10+ years of experience in Capital Markets as a Project Manager or Business Analyst with experience in system implementations or equivalent operational experience on central datamarts like Security Master/Pricing master.
• Experience with data projects involving concepts and processes related to data management, such as critical data elements, data architecture, data models, data lineage, data quality, data dictionary etc.  
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Strong verbal and