Business Analyst

Company Overview: Req ID: 396461 NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now. NTT DATA's Client is currently seeking a Business Analyst to join their team in Irving, Texas (US-TX), United States (US). Job Description: Job Description Senior Business Analyst Investment Banking / Wealth Management Day to Day Job Duties: Lead business discussions, discovery sessions, and requirements-gathering workshops with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, operations teams, product owners, architects, data teams, and technology teams. Elicit, analyze, document, validate, prioritize, and manage business and functional requirements throughout the project lifecycle. Prepare and maintain Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs), use cases, process flows, business rules, user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability artifacts. Develop and maintain Source-to-Target Mapping (STTM) documentation supporting data migration, conversion, and system integration initiatives. Perform source-data analysis, field-level mapping, data lineage assessment, transformation-rule definition, reference-data mapping, reconciliation, and target-data validation. Analyze current-state and future-state business processes and perform gap analysis, impact assessment, dependency analysis, and process-improvement evaluation. Support transformation initiatives involving Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Investment Accounting, Portfolio Accounting, and related operational platforms. Analyze business processes related to securities processing, custody, asset servicing, trade lifecycle, positions, transactions, cash, and corporate actions. Define requirements related to financial reporting, general ledger, reconciliation, accounting controls, operational controls, and investment-accounting processes. Analyze upstream and downstream system interfaces and document integration requirements across applications, data platforms, and external systems. Work with architects, developers, data engineers, QA teams, vendors, and business users to clarify requirements and resolve functional and data-related issues. Support data migration and conversion activities including data profiling, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and business acceptance. Coordinate User Acceptance Testing activities, including test planning, test-case review, execution support, defect triage, business validation, and sign-off. Participate in platform migration, application modernization, data conversion, system integration, and operational transformation programs. Ensure delivered solutions align with business requirements related to investment accounting, reporting, reconciliation, risk, controls, and operational processes. Support Agile and Waterfall delivery activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, requirements walkthroughs, status discussions, and governance reviews. Maintain requirements traceability, RAID items, decisions, dependencies, risks, and action items throughout the delivery lifecycle. Use SQL, Microsoft Excel, and other analytical tools to perform data analysis, validation, reconciliation, and issue investigation. Facilitate communication and alignment across business, operations, product, technology, data, and vendor teams. Basic Qualifications: (What are the skills required for this job with minimum years of experience on each) Minimum 8+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Functional Analysis, Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Investment Accounting, technology transformation, or a related discipline. Minimum 8+ years of experience working within Investment Banking and/or Wealth Management environments. Minimum 8+ years of experience with Investment Accounting and Portfolio Accounting processes and platforms. Minimum 8+ years of experience with securities processing, custody, asset servicing, trade lifecycle, positions, transactions, cash, and corporate actions. Minimum 8+ years of experience with financial reporting, general ledger, reconciliation, accounting controls, and operational controls. Minimum 8+ years of experience with requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, prioritization, and management. Minimum 8+ years of experience preparing BRDs, FRDs, use cases, process flows, business rules, user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability documentation. Minimum 8+ years of experience leading stakeholder workshops and translating business needs into clear and actionable functional requirements. Minimum 8+ years of experience developing Source-to-Target Mapping (STTM) documentation, including field-level mapping, transformation logic, defaulting rules, reference-data lookups, and validation criteria. Minimum 8+ years of experience supporting data migration and conversion activities, including data profiling, cleansing, lineage, validation, reconciliation, and target-data verification. Minimum 8+ years of experience analyzing upstream and downstream system interfaces and documenting integration requirements. Minimum 8+ years of experience with ETL concepts, APIs, batch interfaces, file-based integrations, relational databases, and data warehouses. Minimum 8+ years of experience performing current-state and future-state process analysis, gap analysis, impact assessment, and dependency analysis. Minimum 8+ years of experience coordinating UAT, business validation, defect triage, and business sign-off activities. Minimum 8+ years of experience using JIRA and Confluence for requirements, backlog, issue, and delivery management. Minimum 8+ years of experience with SQL querying, Microsoft Excel, and data analysis. Minimum 8+ years of experience working within Agile / Scrum and Waterfall delivery methodologies. Minimum 8+ years of experience managing requirements traceability, RAID items, risks, issues, dependencies, and SDLC governance. Minimum 8+ years of experience managing stakeholders across business, operations, product, technology, data, and vendor teams. Minimum 8+ years of experience with business communication, workshop facilitation, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement. Travel: Not specified in the source job description. Degree: Degree requirement not specified in the source job description. Nice to Have: (But not a must) Experience supporting large-scale Investment Accounting or Portfolio Accounting platform transformations. Experience with Wealth Management platform modernization or migration initiatives. Experience supporting complex data-conversion or system-integration programs within financial services. Experience with securities, custody, asset servicing, or capital-markets operating models. Experience working with financial-data warehouses, accounting data platforms, or enterprise reporting solutions. Experience supporting regulatory, risk, or control-driven transformation programs. Experience coordinating across globally distributed business and technology teams. Experience working with third-party financial-services vendors or platform providers. 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