Prime Finance Senior Business Analyst, Vice President

Prime Finance Senior Business Analyst, Vice President

Are you a highly skilled and motivated Senior Business Analyst looking to make a significant impact in the dynamic world of finance? Join our cutting-edge technology team and play a pivotal role in developing and enhancing our proprietary "Margin Calculations and Reporting" Platform, a critical component of our Prime Finance Services organization. This is an exceptional opportunity to apply your Business Analyst expertise to complex, computing-intensive financial solutions within a collaborative and globally connected environment.

This role is at the heart of our Prime Services division, where you will contribute to the evolution of a sophisticated margin calculation engine. This engine leverages a complex model and intricate business logic to provide leverage to clients and reduce risk for Citi, directly impacting our financial operations. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be instrumental in delivering end-to-end software solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, and robustness for our critical financial systems globally.

The cross-functional team supports system with UI, backend and reporting modules extensively used by Prime Finance business globally

Responsibilities:

• Drive requirement elicitation and analysis for new projects, working closely with global business users and product development teams to define their needs and asks.
• Gather, document, and secure sign-off on comprehensive business, functional, and technical requirement documents to ensure clarity and alignment across teams.
• Translate business needs into actionable development tasks, providing continuous support and clarification to the development and QA teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

Strategic Analysis & Process Improvement

• Lead the analysis and re-engineering of current business processes, identifying gaps and recommending improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Analyze and model complex data, creating clear mock-ups and diagrams to visualize solutions and validate requirements with stakeholders.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Act as the primary liaison between business users and technologists, ensuring information is exchanged in a concise, logical, and understandable way.
• Communicate critical updates and coordinate dependencies with representatives from upstream and downstream systems to ensure seamless integration.
• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on your projects, confidently addressing questions and providing guidance to business, development, and QA teams.

Quality Assurance & Business Support

• Design and conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT), meticulously validating that solutions meet business needs and presenting the final results for business approval.
• Provide ongoing support for existing business operations, answering Business As Usual (BAU) inquiries and assisting with production support to ensure smooth day-to-day functionality.

Required skills:

• 6-10 years of business analyst experience
• Requirements elicitation and documenting (BRD / FRD, JIRA)
• User acceptance testing
• SQL knowledge for data analysis and presentation
• Advanced Excel knowledge (pivot tables, vlookup, mcaros)
• Understanding of financial markets (equities, derivatives, fixed income)
• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Proven interpersonal skills with ability to partner and influence across organizational lines
• Proven ability of using complex analytical, interpretive and problem-solving techniques

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's degree preferred

Nice to have skills:

• Knowledge of Prime Brokerage, front / middle / back office operations, margin financing is a plus
• Regulatory projects (Reg T, PM)
• MS Visio, Balsamiq, other tools for data mocking and presentation