Sr Business Analyst - Post Trade, VP at State Street

Senior Business Analyst

At Charles River Development (CRD) we've been creating some of the most insightful and complex asset management technologies since 1977. Through our commitment to product quality and operating through a client-focused lens, we've experienced continuous growth. Charles River IMS is strategically aligned to innovate the future of investment management technologies. Together with State Street's middle and back office capabilities, Charles River's cloud-deployed software technology forms the foundation of State Street Alpha?.

The Charles River Development Post-Trade team is looking to hire a Senior Business Analyst who will be responsible for working with clients and development to create solutions to improve the client experience, the product feature set, and the strategic position of the CRD Investment Management System.

Charles River Development brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. Our diverse team of highly skilled technologists and professionals are agile thinkers and problem solvers, committed to our end users and engineering excellence. We use mentorship and teamwork to impact and drive our business forward every day. By joining the Post-Trade team, you will use advanced technology and critical thinking to challenge the status quo and drive results.

Responsibilities:

• The Senior Business Analyst will become a Charles River product expert and help to ensure that our software products effectively aid our end users with their trading and front office workflows. In consultation with our financial industry clients and internal product teams, they will utilize business and technical knowledge to improve product performance and competitive advantages.
• The Senior Business Analyst will work on post-trade matching and settlement workflows across all instrument types (equity, fixed income, derivatives, FX, etc.), participating in the full software development lifecycle and contributing as the Product Owner of a feature-focused product development team
• They must be familiar with both financial and technical concepts, with a strong ability to deliver against specific requirements in a timely fashion on a project-by-project basis.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development lifecycle experience, particularly Agile Scrum methodology preferred
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with post-trade matching and settlement product development is a must
• Strong understanding of the post-trade matching vendor workflows, FIX workflows and settlement workflows with SWIFT messages
• Experience building integrations with third party vendors
• Experience with MSSQL preferred
• Familiarity with various types of financial instruments (Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives etc.)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation skills
• Advanced writing skills, including the ability to abstract/summarize highly detailed information
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to reconcile conflicting data
• Ability to translate customer business needs into application requirements
• Strong technical background and ability to come up with technical solution
• Demonstrated planning, prioritization and scheduling skills
• Ability to independently ramp up and proactively resolve impediments to make progress.
• Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical product specification documents
• Knowledgeable in one or more CRD functional financial areas is strongly desired.
• Education: BS Degree in Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Physics. MS/MBA degree strongly preferred

Salary Range: $110,000 - $188,750 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.