IT Business Analyst

Pay: $60.00 – $67.00 / hour (W2)

Duration: 6 – 12 Months

Location: Charlotte, NC 28202 (Hybrid)

Role Overview: We are leading a Digital Transformation across our Americas Division as we modernize technology, focus on a data‑driven approach, and scale our operations. We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with 10+ years of experience—primarily in financial market data or reference data—to support the design and development of a strategic data platform for our Capital Markets and Securities groups.

• Team Integration:
  Join a Data Strategy team spanning broker‑dealer and swap‑dealer entities.
• Analysis:
  Perform business and data analysis for strategic data projects across financial products.
• Project Leadership:
  Lead new projects from inception through go‑live, managing the full project lifecycle including project initiation documents, business requirements (BRDs), and status reports.
• UAT Management:
  Lead end‑to‑end User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for users and developers.
• Roadmap
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Partner with senior management and delivery leads to create solution roadmaps and provide timely status updates.
• Facilitation:
  Lead requirements gathering and design sessions with business and technology stakeholders.
• Agile Coordination:
  Facilitate daily/weekly developer scrums, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Backlog Management:
  Support agile activities including user story creation, acceptance criteria, and risk identification.
• Quality Assurance:
  Document QA test plans and execute test cases; liaise with business users to track defects and enhancements.
• Documentation:
  Write user documentation and conduct training sessions on new functionality.
• Production Support:
  Assist with production implementation, coordinate user validation across impacted Control Functions, and participate in general BAU application enhancements.

• 10+ years in Capital Markets as a Project Manager or Business Analyst, specifically with system implementations or central datamarts (e.g., Security Master or Pricing Master).
• Solid understanding of financial terminology and various securities/asset classes.
• Experience with data projects involving data architecture, data models, lineage, data quality, and data dictionaries.
• Strong verbal and written communication; able to interface confidently with senior stakeholders and technical teams.
• Proven ability to interpret complex business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements>
• Strong skills in MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• Strong work ethic with a focus on meeting deadlines and learning new products/systems quickly.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems, or an MBA preferred.

Manpower Group® (NYSE: MAN) is a leading global workforce solutions company that helps organizations transform in a fast‑changing world of work. It is the parent company of Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells.