Responsibilities
FinStart Rotational Program – Product Analyst
About the role/opportunity
Finastra is actively seeking talented, ambitious, and curious individuals to join our FinStart Program starting in Summer 2024. This unique development program is an excellent opportunity to accelerate your career, by enhancing your skills, building meaningful relationships, and participating in challenging and innovative projects while rotating through various areas of the firm. You will be supported with mentorship and training throughout the program to help guide your career development and while you take on various challenges you will get to work with awesome people in a highly collaborative environment.
Here’s what you can expect.
- A structured, high touch 2-year development program, offering a wealth of learning opportunities within the product team to enhance your technical epertise and soft skills
- A 12-month rotation, allowing you to gain invaluable experience and exposure within various business units to gain a holistic understanding of Finastra
- An accelerated learning program that will prepare you for success as the high performers of tomorrow, coaching, networking opportunities, project work assignments, access LinkedIn learning courses, and ongoing technical training to develop highly transferable technical skills
- Opportunities to embrace a global experience and become part of a community, fostering team building, expanding your network and accelerating your personal and professional growth
- A chance to learn more about the fintech industry and how you can contribute to an exciting new world of open finance
- A tailored salary and bonus scheme, accompanied by a talent management review process designed to recognize and advance your exceptional performance.
- To enjoy a healthy work-life balance with our unlimited vacation policy, encouraging personal well-being and flexibility
What you’ll do.
Reporting to the Principal Product Analyst, the Product Analyst -will collaborate with the Development and Product Management teams on product requirements, design, documentation, and risk mitigation strategies. Participate in business case development, market research, and competitive intelligence analysis. Develop business requirements and collaborate in the translation of business requirements into technical requirements. Define system and functional requirements.
Your deliverables as a Product Analyst will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Creates recommendations and feature definition to address market opportunities.
- Gathers information from stakeholders to document functional, system, and/or data requirements.
- Perform product system impact analysis to determine affected functional areas of the application.
- Collaborates with team members to create detailed functional and/or technical specifications for complex development of new or modifications to existing applications or systems. May review requirements developed by other staff and provide guidance to improve requirement quality as necessary.
- Collaborates with team members in the development of specifications to create unit and integrated test cases.
- Assists in the analysis of results of unit and integration testing.
- Provides overall direction for product enhancements and general product development requirements.
- Serves as a liaison between internal and external stakeholders
- Collaborates with technical communications writer to develop proper and thorough documentation (internal and external) describing product changes as appropriate.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, and distinguish defects from enhancement requests.
- Identifies training needs and designs, and trains employees on product usage and new features/functionality.
- Provides direction to less skilled employees in business systems analysis concepts. May design and implement training plans.
- Identifies continuous improvement opportunities for Product Management processes.
- May act as a team lead for project work and facilitate meetings, webinars, and focus groups.
- Assist in release preparation duties including release notes, bulletins, and/or supporting documentation.
Rotation pathways will depend on various factors, including your career interests, development needs, location, and business demands. Once you have completed the FinStart Program, you will have the opportunity to align yourself with an area of our business based on your interests, capabilities, and business need.
Required Experience:
- 0-2 years of business analysis or relevant experience, Financial industry experience preferred
- Have recently graduated with a degree in Economic studies or equivilant programs focusing in areas such as Ecomomic cybernetics, statstics & Informatics or Finance, Insurance, Banking and Stock Exchange
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications.
- Strong technical, analytical, and development skills including the ability to provide solutions to a variety of business problems of complex scope and complexity.
- Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills required.
- Ability to mentor less experienced analysts.
- Advanced facilitation skills to conduct and facilitate focused requirements analysis discussions.
- Ability to work independently or within a team environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to organize and lead others in accomplishing project goals and objectives.
- Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle.
- Advanced knowledge of defining system and functional requirements.
