Manager's comments "One the key requirement for this position is to have strong Financial knowledge, preferably in Equity research"

Job Type: Contract

Dur : 6 M+

Rate: Open

Job Location: New York, NY

Job Description:

Job Title: IT - Business Analyst

Job Description:

• Business Analyst (Big Data)
• Must Have Skills:
• BA with Front Office Experience (focus on Equity Research is preferred)
• Project Management Exposure (Manage several stakeholders & milestones during the project)
• Statistical Background Advanced SQL skills (PostgreSQL is nice to have ).
• Understanding the concepts of Data Visualization, Data Catalogues and Data Warehouse/ETL (Extract Transfer Load) (Hadoop is a nice to have.)
• UBS Investment Research is in the process of building a street-leading primary research platform called Evidence Lab.
• At the heart of this capability is the ability to systematically gather, cleanse, structure and analyze primary data about the companies and markets that we do research on.
• We are looking for a talented professional who lives and breathes data, understands data lifecycle and can help the business to explore and generate actionable insights from raw and sparse datasets.
• Business Analyst will act as the owner of key data projects.
• The person will work directly with the Evidence Lab team to understand their business requirements and define the scope of the projects.
• The role also requires project management skills to coordinate with all the players in the data platform to deliver against project milestones and deadlines.

• Own new data projects from inception to delivery
• Gather requirements and define project scope and details with business stakeholders
• Coordinate with internal and external data providers on requirements and manage data logistics
• Establish data quality guidelines, review results and follow up on data quality day-to-day operations
• Deliver clear requirements to technology teams on data modeling or/and product development
• Support business stakeholders in building dashboards and visualization models
• Generate KPI reports on data projects and identify enhancement opportunities across products
• Coordinate project priorities and deliver results across multiple projects progressing simultaneously

• Bachelors degree in engineering, science, finance or a related discipline
• Excellent project management skills and ability to prioritize issues
• Excellent oral and written communication, organizational and customer service skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills (data analysis and requirement documentation)
• Outstanding SQL and PL/SQL scripting skills (PostgreSQL is a plus)
• Experience with reporting and data visualization/analysis tools (such as Tableau)
• Microsoft Excel guru (pivot tables, data analysis, charting, etc¦)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; eager to learn and generate results under pressure
• Experience in data platform concepts (data catalog, warehouse, ETL, MDM, etc)
• Experience with working in Hadoop and distributed computing frameworks is a plus
• Prior work with financial data is a plus