Business Analyst Local Ny

Location: NYC, NY 3 Days a Week

Duration: 6+ months

NEW REQUIREMENT!!!! Requirement Notes (Candidate Job description below) : We need a senior Business Analyst (10+ years) to Partner with front, middle, and back-office stakeholders to gather, document, and prioritize business and functional requirements to Translate business needs into user stories, functional specs, and process/data flow diagrams for engineering and vendor teams. Candidates need to have exposure to AI even if it is in personal projects.

CANDIDATES NEED TO HAVE RECENT CAPITAL MARKETS EXPERIENCE (PREFERED FRONT MIDDLE AND BACK OFFICE) AND THEY NEED TO BE EXCELLENT COMMUNICATORS. THIS STARTS AS A 6 MONTH PROJECT AND SHOULD GET EXTENDED ANOTHER YEAR. THIS WILL MOVE FAST. THE CLIENT HAD A RESOURCE RESIGNE WITHOUT NOTICE AND THE HAVE A PROJECT TO RUN.

CANDIDATES MUST HAVE GOOD TENURE AND/OR LONG PROJECTS. CANDIDATES WITH RECENT LOCAL PROJECTS. NO RELOCATION

Job Description:

• Partner with front, middle, and back-office stakeholders to gather, document, and prioritize business and functional requirements
• Translate business needs into user stories, functional specs, and process/data flow diagrams for engineering and vendor teams
• Analyze existing workflows across areas such as portfolio management, trade operations, fund accounting, or investor reporting to identify inefficiencies and automation opportunities
• Evaluate and recommend applications of AI/ML and generative AI tools within existing platforms and business processes
• Support UAT planning and execution, ensuring delivered solutions meet business requirements
• Act as liaison between business units and technology/data teams throughout the SDLC
• Maintain documentation of business rules, data lineage, and system dependencies
• Participate in vendor evaluations and due diligence for new technology or data platforms

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, ideally supporting capital markets, asset management, or financial services technology functions
• Strong requirements-gathering, process mapping, and documentation skills (BRDs, user stories, workflow diagrams)
• Experience working directly with front-office, operations, or finance stakeholders
• Proficiency with SQL and/or data analysis tools
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences

• Experience within private credit, direct lending, or hedge fund environments
• Exposure to portfolio/loan management systems (e.g., WSO, Geneva, Advent, Allvue) or trade/order management platforms
• General understanding of how AI/generative AI tools (e.g., Copilot, LLM-based automation, RPA) can be implemented in a corporate/financial services setting - no deep technical AI background required, but comfort evaluating use cases and vendor tools
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Computer Science, or related field