Yardi Business Analyst

Job Description

On behalf of our client, a leading investment management company we are currently recruiting for a Yardi Business Analyst to work for them on a long term contract basis. Based in London- our client offer a Hybrid working model of 1 or 2 days in the officethen remote working. The role is inside IR35 so must be paid via Umbrella.It is essential you have Yardi Experience!If you are available click on the link to reply and Resource Solutions will be in touch.Job Specification:What youll do

• Gather requirements and interface directly with business SMEs
• Mapping Business requirements into Yardi Voyager functionality / processes. Configuration testing and UAT

• Build logical data models and other analysis artefacts to support the SDLC
• Ensure best practice analysis is embedded within the SDLC
• Analysis of functional, business and technical requirements into flexible, strategic solutions
• Support Capability [Product] owners to ensure that features and stories to be delivered by the Technology Capability teams are suitable defined and structured
• Responsible for contributing to the analysis, development, and testing of working software
• Responsible for contributing to all elements of planning, including estimates for analysis assignments, testing and the support acceptance process
• Participate enthusiastically and effectively in Schroders agile ceremonies
• Dedicated to increasing their skills and experience in non-core specialisms (Development and testing)
• Supporting other team members to improve their analysis skills and experiences
• Supporting the development of the wider GT organisation through guidance of communities, guilds or key involvement in other non-core activities

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

• Expert level experience of working with Yardi Voyager - commercial suite of modules; Property Management, Investment Manager, Payscan.
• Experience of populating and importing Yardi ETL Templates, including troubleshooting import failures
• Experience of Financial Services and Asset Management data, with a particular focus on Real Estate and Private Assets/Alternatives
• Wide experience of business analysis across a number of different capabilities, systems or teams; number of different (positive) experiences is valued higher than length of experience
• Logical, structured thought processes and good problem-solving
• Understanding of accounting principles
• Experience working with databases and strong data analysis skills
• Highly skilled in producing visual artefacts e.g. Visio to communicate requirements, stories or design solutions
• Comfortable to engage with senior stakeholders within the business and wider GT in both written and verbal form
• Excellent ability to produce management level information packs / presentations to communicate requirements and design solutions
• Experience of working with global colleagues and stakeholders and sensitivity to cultural differences, times zones etc.
• Track-record of delivery within large programmes

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help

• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS & Azure)
• Experience working on Alternatives/Private Assets platforms e.g. eFront
• Experience working with Merger & Acquisition (M&A) due diligence and integration
• Relevant Investment Management/Private Assets professional qualifications such as: Investment Management Certificate (IMC), Investment Operations Certificate (IOC) & Fundamentals of Alternatives Certificate

What youll be like

• Someone who shows initiative and thrives in a fast-paced and time-critical business environment
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic
• Striving for continuous improvement, bringing new ideas to the team
• Able to remain positive when under pressure
• Flexible, highly curious and willing to learn
• A critical thinker whos able to look at things from different angles
• Great at unpicking a problem, from start to end, own and deliver the solution
• Able to work under pressure, on several priorities at once, and with tight deadlines
• Great at working with other people, sharing and communicating decisions