Five plus years related work experience.College diploma or university degree in the field of business administration, computer science, finance, or information systems.Serve as expert to provide coaching, mentoring, and support to ensure solutions are quickly adopted and correctly used.Develop or assist with developing training materials.Partner with IT to define and execute test scenarios oversee acceptance testing.Work closely with the Director of Research Operations to ensure that changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements are clearly communicated to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
Partner with IT to manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle enforce and redefine as necessary.Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible and acceptable options and communicate back to the business stakeholders.Work closely with developers to create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on the user requirements.Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that facilitates technical design and system development.Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications or to deliver process and structure solutions to the business.For technical projects and deliverables, work with IT to analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.Operational Management/Partnership with IT Assist in conducting research on technology and data products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support business goals.
Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.Conduct interviews to gather requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.Work closely with the IT team on research related projects and make sure they are prioritized appropriately within the broader IT portfolio.Identify and help prioritize projects that will have the biggest impact on the research function and other key areas of the firm based on business value add, efficiency gains and overall cost/benefit to the business.Working with the Director of Research Operations on key initiatives including ongoing vendor replacement searches and system implementations.