Business Analyst - Post Trade - Charles River Development

State Street • Burlington, MA

44d • $90,000 - $142,500

About The Position

The 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 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. 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

• 5+ years of software development lifecycle experience, particularly Agile Scrum methodology preferred
• Understanding of the post-trade matching vendor workflows, FIX workflows and settlement workflows with SWIFT messages is preferred.
• 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
• BS Degree in Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Physics. MS/MBA degree strongly preferred

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with post-trade matching and settlement product development is a plus

Responsibilities

• Under the guidance of the Product Owner, research and produce business and technical requirement documents
• Analyze the front, middle and back-office workflows and produce detailed functional documents.
• Work with the Product Owner to gather product requirements from customers and product management teams and develop feature specifications; involvement in all aspects of the software product life cycle
• Apply detailed knowledge of business requirements and workflows to assist in product development
• Partner with development to help develop, implement, and refine features
• Plan and schedule validation tasks; provide hands-on manual tests; develop verification plans and processes
• Provide feedback on product performance
• Review documentation to ensure accurate and complete documentation
• Provide client beta testing support and train personnel on capabilities of new product releases
• Assist with the management of project schedules and deliverables
• Assist implementation and support to troubleshoot, reproduce and resolve escalated client issues
• Actively participate in the grooming meetings, review the completed work in sprint demos, track progress in standups and plan the sprints with Product Owner.
• Create Jiras, and assist in maintaining prioritized backlog, release plans and roadmap.
• Work closely with QA, review and approve QA test plans and test results.
• Coordinate with cross functional teams to complete the project on-time and release the product.

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