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Job Title: BUSINESS ANALYST
Job Location: NJ: Roseland
Pay Rate: Open
Job Length: full time
Start Date: 2008-05-30

Company Name: Citi
Contact: Human Resources
Phone: email only please
Fax: email only please

Description: BUSINESS ANALYST – 08003702

Job Description

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Description Project and Process Mgmt . Participate in and Re-engineer, standardize, and execute process management based on specific Senior Mgmt and business requirements . Develop accurate and complete test plans . Provide testing and testing leadership for the projects in which they are assigned. . Develop and facilitates meeting objectives and agendas . Enforce project deadlines and schedules . Execute directives from Senior Business Analysts . Apply BA and project standards consistently and effectively . Document issues and proactively communicate status and issues with all parties (internal customers, both users and executive steering committees) effectively using all media 3rdParty Vendor Management . With Sr. BA’s direction, the BA interfaces with brokers, 3rdparty vendors, and data providers to ensure smooth delivery of services and business needs. Stay abreast of industry and specific provider updates, changes and issues via phone and face to face meetings . Ensure 3rdparties are satisfied with current arrangements with Citi Hedge Fund Services North America, Inc. . Provide effective communication to the user community on applications/process . Maintain and update Facilitate new client setup . Ensure vendors are providing services/items as desired . Liaise with Finance, Legal, and Purchasing to ensure relationships are up to date Support Sr. BA in Product Development . Conduct fact-finding missions, Make firm recommendations . Stay abreast of industry updates, changes and potential solutions . Work with all areas to determine client needs, present and future . Vet 3rdparty offerings for ‘best fit’ Assist Sr. BA in Process Improvement . Identify and Liaise with client and investor services teams to identify efficiency opportunities . Liaise with Training/QC group to identify procedures where efficiency opportunities exist . Assist operations in rolling out procedures that use new process improvements . Identify and assist operations with eliminating process overlaps between departments

Specifications / Qualifications . Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, computer science or related degree. . Minimum 4 years experience in a finance, accounting, MIS, or Business Analyst capacity. IT works as well. Financial services and financial market experience is highly desirable. . Experience with hedge fund, mutual fund, or transfer agency applications . Experience with financial aspects of hedge funds and alternative investment vehicles . Excellent communication, written, and organizational skills . A highly committed individual with a background in a problem solving, and project management in a financial service environment . Related experience with back office workflow including, trade processing, accounting, reconciliation . Ability to lead testing projects . Working knowledge of IT concepts and terminology, including but not limited to, .NET, SQL, HTML, basic Internet and client/server architectures, all Microsoft Office applications . Advent Geneva and Advent Geneva RSL

Profile Job Function Operations Location NAM-US-NJ-Roseland Employee Status Full-time Education Level Bachelors Degree Shift Day Job Employee Type Regular Exempt Status Exempt Travel No

Additional Information Posting Date Jan 29, 2008, 04:58 PM, Montreal, New York, Washington D.C. - (UTC -5:00) Number of Positions 1

Relocation No Brief Description of the Organization Citis Alternative Investment Services provides an extensive range of financial services including hedge fund administration, securities services and corporate secretarial services. We service a diversified portfolio of international clients, both institutional and private. Our service locations are located in New York, New Jersey, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, London, Boston, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and the British Virgin Islands. Our primary focus is servicing hedge funds, funds of hedge funds and other alternative vehicles structured. The expertise created by specializing in the alternative market enables us to provide our clients and their investors with knowledgeable staff who are proficient in identifying and developing solutions to meet each clients individual needs. By dedicating a team of professionals to each client, through our account team approach, we facilitate a well-informed responsiveness which we believe to be unavailable elsewhere in the industry.

Please refer to Job code citigroup-598876 when responding to this ad.

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