Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. In the Americas, we are more than 5,000 employees strong with a presence in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.

Built upon a foundation that leverages the perspective of more than 400 years of history, our Japanese heritage affirms a sense of honor and commitment that is increasingly rare in the financial world. Our deeply-held values of service, respect, and integrity are present in everything we do.

Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, we offer a range of commercial and investment banking services to our corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. We connect 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 Nikko Securities Canada, Ltd., 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.

We are seeking for an Associate level Business Analyst with 3-7 years’ experience working with middle back office. The IT Business Analyst supports strategic initiatives across all departments with expertise in system migration projects, as well as ad-hoc business needs (application, automation, production support, UAT management).

Reporting to the BA Lead, this role works within the project team to help implementation and execution of projects throughout their lifecycles. This position entails User Acceptance Test coordination between internal clients and vendors, writing requirement documents, data analysis in SQL, report creation, creating trade/system flow diagrams, PowerPoints. Projects assigned could be on an enterprise level, Front to Back and may also be required to work with third-parties. You will also be expected to work with cross-functional teams to understand the business in order to apply effective technical solutions for different work streams. It is also important for this individual to understand the business from Front Office to Back Office perspective in order to draw up trade and system flow diagrams and devise their own solutions.

Role Objectives

• Collaborate with technology, client-side, and vendor teams across different business workstreams
• Gather and analyze business requirements in order to transform and deliver client business needs into system solutions
• Develop deep understanding client-side needs and translating business requirements to technical specifications and documents
• Provide key inputs for application design process in development phase
• Coordinate UAT, facilitate developing quality test scripts and executing them
• Produce high quality trade/system workflow diagrams, documents, and ppt presentations

Qualifications And Skills

• 3-7 years of professional experience, preferably with experience in the financial services industry
• Excellent communication/writing skill, ability to present complex information and write functional/technical specifications and use cases
• Good understanding of Front/Middle/Back office applications and workflows for settlements, trading, and reporting
• Technical understanding of application design and SDLC life cycle
• Good understanding of finance and able to adapt quickly to business technology landscape
• Good understanding of broker dealer/investment banking products (equities, fixed income, etc.) and operational knowledge is a plus