Essential Functions

Minimum Experience

FINRA Registrations

Physical Requirements

• Business Acumen: Caters to key stakeholders and their priorities. Participates in business task to get things done in own unit or area. Communicates key considerations for business decision making process. Comments on the organization's business model and financial goals. Cites examples of types of information needed to make sound business decisions.

• Business Orientation: Ensures upper management is informed of actual/potential financial problems in timely manner. Prepares cost justification or ROI analysis for major business initiatives. Develops buy vs. lease vs. build scenarios where appropriate. Seeks out and cuts business waste (needless or excessive expenditures). Questions the validity of the business drivers for the organization and own unit. Create and manage budgets while dealing promptly with variances and other budget issues.

• Business Process Design: Uses a variety of business process design tools and techniques. Examines, interprets, and explains work-flow materials and documentation. Analyzes a process and associated business logic and offers recommendations based on analysis. Carries out business process design tasks with some supervision and coaching. Documents common obstacles and barriers for effective implementation.

• Analytical Thinking: Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts. Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation. Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation. Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action. Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research. Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.

• Producing Results: Makes effective use of resources not under own direct control. Rarely repeats mistakes; learns and adapts from prior errors. Ensures time, resources, energy, and actions are focused on priorities that matter to the business. Reliably meets all team commitments, quotas, and goals. Communicates a strong sense of urgency about solving problems and getting work done. Takes risks in improving products and services while holding self and others accountable.

• IT Standards, Procedures & Policies: Develops templates for designing IT standards and procedures for technical business plans. Manages the process for IT standards and procedures delivery and implementation ensuring the organization is under effective management. Monitors the implementation of IT standards and procedures in IT projects or services. Evaluates the effectiveness of IT policies through professional group discussions. Revises IT policies, standards and procedures based on each department's feedback. Designs organizational IT policies, standards and procedures.

• IT: a Business Within a Business: Evaluates current standards, policies and guidelines in the development of IT business services. Consults on key issues and challenges of internal and external IT businesses. Compares and contrasts benefits and risks of internal and external IT services. Monitors and coordinates preventive and scheduled IT business models. Supervises the evaluation of IT-related business in multiple and diverse environments. Assesses the value and cost structures of multiple IT services or products.

• Business Assessment: Defines success factors for potential applications or systems. Evaluates the processes and tools for risk assessment and benefits analysis. Plays an active or leadership role in business assessment processes and assists in the preparation of deliverables. Utilizes tools, techniques and practices for identifying and validating business opportunities. Establishes business assessment procedures for multiple or critical applications. Conducts, documents and communicates basic business assessment reviews and walkthroughs.

• Requirements Analysis: Trains others on requirements workthroughs and quality reviews. Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage. Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms. Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases. Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation. Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.

• Business Process Modeling: Presents differing views on the same business process for different audiences. Determines the workflow and actors involved in a new product or service design through BPM. Discusses results of successful BPM interventions among diverse scenarios. Finds gaps and redundancies in business processes via BPM techniques. Evaluates and simplifies existing business processes by using BPM. Selects technology or modifies decisions based on BPM study results.

• Training Delivery: Participates in delivering a small portion of the lesson, from a pre-existing lesson plan. Interprets basic do's and don'ts for classroom training (platform competencies). Creates classroom learning objectives while managing participant questions and concerns. Addresses unique techniques for preparing course material and delivering classroom instruction. Assists in the delivery and evaluation of training program components.

• Software Process Improvement (SPI): Evaluates the key benefits of the SPI program from an IT and business perspective. Plans and recommends deployment processes while evaluating their effectiveness. Supervises and guides SPI activities throughout all phases of IT projects. Consults on the use of SPI-related tools, techniques, standards and methodologies. Conducts and directs software quality assurance reviews and monitoring activities. Trains others on Capability Maturity Model, level 2 and 3 key process areas.

• Technical Writing/Documentation: Conducts training on alternative documentation delivery mechanisms, tools and techniques. Establishes and references best practices for existing and planned tools and delivery vehicles for proper documentation. Manages cost items in producing and maintaining documentation. Designs and implements formal methodologies for producing documentation. Supervises the analysis, design and data collation on large documentation initiatives. Collaborates with support function managers, the product management team, and design engineers with writing projects.

• IT Project Management: Builds IT related templates for demand analysis and functional reports. Estimates and appropriately addresses potential issues and risks in IT projects. Monitors every step in an IT project to ensure all aspects of the project are delivered on-time. Ensures that technical objectives and functional requirements align in all IT projects. Controls quality standards and budgeting in an ongoing IT project. Directs team members in analyzing client requirements in an appropriate manner.

• Information Security Management: Optimizes operational standards for securing information assets. Consults on information security architecture concepts, disciplines and practices. Consults on the capabilities, features and use of information security technologies, to assess, monitor and resolve security risks and problems. Supervises the development, maintenance and utilization of information security practices. Elaborates on components that compromise network defense architecture; evaluates the effectiveness of information security systems. Defines, implements and monitors a BYOD security policy.