Business Analyst Performance Product, Officer

State Street • Quincy, MA

2d • $65,000 - $113,750

About The Position

We are seeking a growth-oriented professional for the role of Performance Product Business Analyst within the Investment Performance Analytics Product Development Team to work with Product, Technology, and Service Delivery teams to design and deliver performance and analytics solutions. You will be responsible for translating complex business needs into clear product requirements and Agile stories, supporting end‑to-end delivery from testing through production rollout, and serve as a subject matter expert for performance and analytics capabilities and applications.

Requirements

• Experience in financial services operations processing, reporting and enhancement initiatives.
• Ability to articulate product capabilities and benefits to teammates, senior management, clients, and colleagues in technology and service delivery
• Ability to work with stakeholders, develop and maintain relationships, and act as a persuasive change agent with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Capability to analyze quantitative and technical problems
• Ability to distil complex information into clear, concise, actionable insights
• Strong collaboration, facilitation, presentation, and negotiation skills
• Strong communication skills to clearly articulate ideas and ability to use experience and analysis to gain support, facilitate consensus, and forge collaboration with internal and external parties
• Familiarity with software development processes and software/product life cycle development activities
• 3 – 5 years of experience in financial services, preferably in investment performance reporting, business analysis for product development, product management
• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Mathematics or equivalent.
• Comfortable with quantitative methods and solutions
• Strong technology insights with demonstrated ability to work across business lines/functions

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degrees in Finance or related professional certifications (CA/CFA/CIPM/CAIA or equivalent) a plus
• Prior Product Management, Change Management, or relevant Consulting experience
• Knowledge of Performance Analytics and applications
• Software development experience
• Experience with project management and documentation tools (eg: Confluence, Jira)
• SQL skills and experience with visualization software

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements and create detailed product requirements, technical requirements, feature specifications, and agile stories
• Become a subject matter expert for Performance & Analytics applications
• Develop product roadmaps, business cases, project objectives, operating models, product design, product requirements, process flows, and wireframes
• Document project schedules, milestones, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, architecture, and cross product dependencies
• Collaborate with Product, Technology, Service Delivery, and other internal stakeholders in the development and rollout of new products and product capabilities
• Provide regular status updates and supporting program management reports as needed
• Support product testing including user acceptance testing as well as test case and test data
• Drive product readiness including release notes, documentation, training, and governance activities for new capabilities and enhancements

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees