We are looking for a Business Analyst! The Business Analyst role will analyze business needs, help solve business problems and support the design of technical solutions. This role interfaces and engages directly with the Front Office Portfolio, Risk, and Operational managers. The ideal candidate enjoys a challenge and has the ability to frame and communicate complex issues in a way that everyone can understand.

Responsibilities

• Interface with business leads and functional SMEs, to identify and capture current state process flow and business requirements

• Hands-on role in the creation and maintenance of critical project artifacts in particular; business requirements, system specifications, process flows and test/use case scripts

• Work with project team to identify future state process flows and requirements to meet project objectives and strategic goals

• Facilitate design review meetings and capture outcomes and update solution and requirement documentation

• Organizes how information is presented to different audiences, presenting at a summary/executive level to illustrate the current health of deliverables being produced

• Prepare and present analysis findings to senior stakeholders and steering committees

• Support the design and decision-making process with IT and business subject matter experts

• Ensure clear communication is maintained across the project team and externally to all stakeholders

• Leads in planning, tracking, and evolving the project plan (timeline and deliverables) for components they have responsibility for

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required with a good grounding in financial services. Degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, Finance or similar fields are preferred

• 3+ years business analysis experience, ideally for an asset management firm in investment operations and/or investment accounting functions

• A great teammate and self-starter, who can work independently, prioritize deliverables efficiently and work on multiple initiatives.

• Experience working across, and switching between, multiple projects concurrently

• Experience mapping and designing operational workflow in the investment management industry

• Experience creating project artifacts for data driven initiatives i.e. data dictionaries, data flow diagrams and data validation requirements

• Comfortable working with and analyzing large and complex data sets and the ability to distill and communicate findings

• Strong teamwork, communication and time management abilities

• Organizationally diligent and meticulous with details

• Is personable, open, and engaging, with a customer-facing attitude