Financial BA

Description:
Hybrid 3 days onsite / 2 days remote in Tysons Corner, VA

Our client seeks a Financial Business Analyst to analyze, validate, and enhance automated surveillance systems across asset classes and regulatory domains. The role will bridge regulatory requirements and technical implementations, reverse-engineer pattern logic, and drive UAT and release validation. The analyst will leverage generative AI tools to expedite analysis, documentation, and automation while ensuring regulatory accuracy.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $65.00 to $70.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Reverse-engineer surveillance pattern source code and document data pipelines, business rules, exceptions, and output schemas.
• Maintain a knowledge base of surveillance patterns across regulatory domains.
• Perform requirements-versus-code gap analysis to identify coverage risks.
• Validate releases by comparing production and UAT outputs and assessing firm-level impacts.
• Build local testing environments and design multi-scenario test cases.
• Package standardized release artifacts including scripts, QC results, and requirements documents.
• Write complex queries to support investigations and generate management reports.
• Maintain reference data sets and assess data incident impacts using dependency maps.
• Develop automation tools for ticketing, documentation, and workflow optimization.
• Create testing frameworks and data visualization reports with comparisons and summary statistics.
• Leverage AI assistants to accelerate code comprehension, documentation, testing, and reporting.
• Design structured AI workflows and maintain curated AI project workspaces.
• Coordinate multi-step analytical tasks via AI and validate AI outputs for regulatory accuracy.
• Manage project boards, track enhancements and defects, and coordinate releases including UAT sign-off.
• Draft and update BRDs, mentor analysts, and report on regulatory and technology trends.

Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years in regulatory technology, surveillance systems, or capital markets data analysis.
• Proficiency in SQL for large-scale, distributed data analysis.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language for analysis and automation.
• Experience interpreting complex data pipelines and business logic in source code.
• Strong analytical skills for independent data validation and discrepancy investigation.
• Excellent documentation skills for translating technical details into business-facing content.
• Advanced proficiency with spreadsheet tools.
• Preferred: Major in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Preferred: Knowledge of SEC/FINRA rules and reporting requirements.
• Preferred: Experience with distributed query engines and big data platforms.
• Preferred: Experience with project management and documentation tools and their APIs.
• Preferred: Familiarity with surveillance pattern architectures.
• Preferred: Experience with source code management and release branch workflows.
• Preferred: Experience using generative AI tools to accelerate analysis and documentation.
• Preferred: Ability to craft effective prompts and structured contexts for reliable outputs in regulated settings.

Education Requirements:
Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree preferred.

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