Location can be Baltimore, MD or Cedar Rapids, IA 

Top Three Skills:

1. 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst

- Requirements gathering

- User interfacing

- Process oriented and the ability to help define processes

2. Documentation experience

- Senior level ability within documentation ability

- Exposure or experience with technical writing

- OneSumX is a reporting tool used to improve accuracy, timeliness, quality, and efficiency of regulatory reporting requirements- this is what the BA’s will be using. Previous experience with this tool is a huge plus, but others that are more common are Visio, Word, etc.

3. Financial Industry experience

- Previous project experience in a Financial environment

Hedge Funds, Investments, Derivatives, etc.

Job Description:

• Falls within the Finance PMO 

• The Hedging Platform team at Transamerica is looking to improve in house controls within the hedging team.

• They need to evaluate current information to make sure they have properly defined documents to achieve goals.  

• Making sure there is a defined process in place is a priority and focusing on the controls and making sure they are well documented.  

• The scope of this project is defined and they have high level milestones/timeline deadlines in place. Some of the work/deliverables will go into 2017.  

• The IT team is responsible for feeding data into financials and have this information be fully documented and clearly defined so that is it easy to identify any issues.

• There are a lot of regulations and auditing/industry standards. There are gaps in the process for this piece of their business right now.  

• They need up to 4 resources to help with this. These resources need to have strong Business Analyst skills, be self-starters, own and drive process, and have very strong documentation skills.

• They need to understand users, process control management, and have financial/investments/derivatives/hedging industry experience.

 • OneSumX is a reporting tool used to improve accuracy, timeliness, quality, and efficiency of regulatory reporting requirements- this is what the BA’s will be using. Previous experience with this tool is a huge plus, but others that are more common are Visio, Word, etc.