For more than 60 years, Federated Hermes has provided world-class investment solutions to financial professionals in the United States and around the world.  Federated Hermes' employees have defined the qualities of the company’s success over the decades: a reputation for integrity and excellence, a commitment to customers and employees and a history of longstanding client relationships.  While each market cycle brings new opportunities and challenges to the company, Federated Hermes continues to foster employee commitment to excellence in the investment management industry.

CAREER OPPORTUNITY #:  8129

POSITION TITLE:  SENIOR BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST

DEPARTMENT:  BISD-IM-PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS SERVICES

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Science, or equivalent work experience required
• Five to seven years of systems/business analysis experience required
• Experience in financial services or securities industry with knowledge of investment products preferred. Specifically, experience with Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) concepts, knowledge of product and workflows
• Experience on multiple team-oriented systems projects preferred
• Experience working with relational databases especially in the use of SQL preferred
• Knowledge and experience using Excel VBA preferred
• Experience with modeling techniques (e.g., data modeling, process modeling) and tools preferred
• Experience with dashboards, portals, and reporting tools (e.g., SharePoint, Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions) for information presentation and delivery preferred

MAJOR DUTIES:

• Solves business problems by performing business analysis, preparing specifications and/or designs, providing project management, and testing, as needed, for relevant business process modifications, applications, and/or reporting enhancements
• Works closely and collaboratively with the business unit to define business requirements and provide consultative support as needed regarding applications and business processes
• Analyzes and specifies logical data models, workflows, wireframes and/or other types of designs for relatively smaller systems or components of a larger system
• Prepares business and functional requirements documents and reviews functional system designs
• Leads meetings with technical or business audiences and present ideas to project teams
• May assist in establishing functional standards and conventions for applications
• Initiates communication with technology staff and business unit staff/management as required to facilitate the most effective and efficient solution to a problem
• Determine and prepare estimates for completion of assigned tasks
• Provide hands-on support and training, as needed, to business clients
• Mentor other business analysts and provide guidance to the team

HOURS/LOCATION:  

• 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Overtime as required)
• Pittsburgh, PA 15222

EXPLANATORY COMMENTS:

• Excellent decision making and problem-solving skills
• Excellent analytical skills with attention to detail and accuracy
• Demonstrates problem solving abilities within an IT organization
• Demonstrates ability to work effectively as a member of a project team
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize between multiple tasks
• Experience with operating in a high-pressure environment
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of business needs and practices comparable to the knowledge of an experienced member of the user community
• Appreciates the applied state of the art analysis methodologies including concepts such as entity-relationship diagramming or object-oriented analysis and design
• Appreciates the aesthetics of the analysis, design, and/or modeling techniques
• Demonstrates ability to incorporate individual user requests into the large-scale business systems environment

Federated Hermes, Inc. offers a competitive salary and benefits package along with a professional environment.

Only those candidates in whom we have an interest will be contacted.

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