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Organization: Financial Services - Capital Markets Solutions Group
Location: New York, NY, San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL
Accenture is looking for talented individuals to join our cutting edge Capital Markets Solutions Group as Senior Business Analysts. The Capital Markets Solutions Group delivers state-of-the art custom trading system applications, risk management systems and other products for the world’s leading banks, electronic exchanges, asset management firms, hedge funds, insurance companies and other financial services institutions. The unit was formed when Accenture acquired Random Walk Computing on July 17, 2006.
Join us and work with a team of experts to define and build the mission-critical securities trading systems and electronic exchanges on which the world's financial markets depend. From cutting-edge technology to the intricacies of bond pricing algorithms and real-time market data, it's a great way to learn your way around (or deepen your current understanding of) Wall Street!
As a Senior Business Analyst, you will work on projects with deep, challenging functional issues arising in distributed financial systems. You’ll use your financial domain expertise to help clients solve real business problems and balance features, performance, transactional integrity, audit/security, data quality and maintainability with time-to-market and cost considerations.
Typical projects may include the development of custom trading systems, financial instrument exchanges, client-facing applications and middle and back office systems. Because our projects are on the leading edge of finance and technology, there's plenty of excitement and the opportunity to learn and develop.
The Senior Business Analyst position is available in New York, NY, Chicago IL, and San Francisco, CA.
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance. Please see our home page for more information, at www.accenture.com.
Job Description/Duties
The Business Analyst helps to crystallize the business problems facing our clients, capturing and documenting the functional requirements around which we can develop a solution. This individual may bring to bear his or her domain experience to guide the decision-making of project sponsors, or mentor members of a project team in the specifics of the particular business domain. The Business Analyst also helps to develop and maintain the client relationship – providing status updates, leading meetings, creating and maintaining plans, etc.
Responsibilities may include:

• Leading and managing multiple projects simultaneously from a business and client relations perspective
• Providing an executive-level contact and resource for clients
• Assisting the sales team with pre-sales/sales activities and deal negotiations
• Identifying business/functional requirements by working with key client personnel or end-users
• Evaluating software applications and IT environments, analyzing gaps between current & desired states
• Leveraging functional and technical domain experience to advise/guide clients
• Representing the company in negotiations with current and prospective clients and business partners
• Interfacing with other functional and technical groups within Accenture

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