Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst

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Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst
San Diego, CA
Position Requirements:
• Minimum 7 years’ solid technology experience
• Proven track record of success in helping to solve significant, technology-related business problems
• Excellent system requirement analysis, prototype and documentation skills
• Experience in software development life cycle project management
• Organized, analytical, and detail-oriented
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills; capable of addressing both technical and non-technical audiences at a variety of organizational levels
• Strong collaboration skills and a successful track record working with executives and cross-functional teams
• Ability to facilitate negotiation and build consensus or alignment amongst competing parties, ultimately driving teams to decision
• Ability to think logically, critically, and constructively, and propose solutions that address expressed needs
• Ability to identify and mitigate risk
• Experience in vendor evaluation, gap analysis, and prove-of-concept
• Experience in test planning and execution
• A self-starter with the ability to establish priorities and meet aggressive deadlines and manage multiple engagement concurrently, and work independently with general supervision
• Experience in guiding the work of peer team members
• Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office programs including MS Project, MS Excel and MS Visio
• Experience in the financial services (brokerage) industry a plus
• Experience in data profile or analysis a plus
• Experience with principles of usability for the web is a plus
• Experience with Salesforce a plus
Job Description:
• Manage end-to-end project delivery process. Plan and achieve project requirements, schedule, activities, tests, etc., keeping project on schedule
• Ensure execution of project activities by coordinating task assignments with end users, technology staff, and other teams as necessary
• Establish and balance priorities and activities between simultaneously progressing projects
• Troubleshoot and track project issues, communicating with end users and escalating if required; manage issues to a timely resolution
• Work closely with business users to discern and establish functional, detailed and clear system requirement documents, while maintaining a focus on the “big picture”
• Discover not only the “what” but also the “why” through requirement analysis
• Maintain traceability of the requirements through the lifecycle of the project
• Mock-up, review, and recommend changes to, and validate user interface design to ensure compliance with requirements, functional specifications, and technical design.
• Work with the QA team to establish proper and thorough test cases
• Manage and oversee deployment rollouts
• Provide regular updates to the manager on project activities and status; raise risks and issues
• Provide accurate estimates for tasks
• Support and improve existing processes
• Foster professional, trusting relationships with our business groupsNo recruiters or third party agencies. Local candidates encouraged to apply.
This is a permanent full-time position which offers a competitive salary, annual bonus potential, full benefits to include employer paid parking and a generous PTO.
Company Bio:
First Allied Securities, Inc. was founded in 1994 as a privately held company with a vision of providing independent financial advisors with cutting-edge technology, innovative products, and superior service. Our goal has always been to partner with those financial advisors who represent the best in the industry, and now, approaching 1,000 financial advisors in 500 branches across the United States, First Allied is fast becoming recognized as a premier broker/dealer for successful, high-producing independent financial advisors.
As we move forward, we will continue supporting our financial advisors as they work to help their clients achieve their financial goals.
First Allied Securities, Inc. is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), and a Registered Investment Advisor offering fee-based products and services.
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