Systems Analyst

Franklin Templeton • Pasadena, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Franklin Templeton, we’re advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we provide opportunities to help you reach your potential while helping our clients reach theirs. Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world! Role Overview Franklin Templeton is seeking a Systems Analyst to lead strategic solutions and drive business outcomes. You will be the key technology liaison to business groups as well as stakeholders, collaborate with departments across the organization and work in an Agile team to deliver progressive solutions. This role will specifically support Western Asset, which is a global asset management firm owned by Franklin Templeton renowned for its expertise in fixed-income investments. You will identify business needs, analyze and define complex business requirements, evaluate latest vendor solutions, and support the implementation of solutions for business partners. You are results-oriented with strong analytical skills, user-focused, detail-oriented, and aware of the needs of each unique stakeholder group. As a scrum team member, you have an innovative forward-thinking design approach and ensure high-quality delivery of our products through our Agile development process. You are versatile, creative, display leadership qualities and are enthusiastic about taking on new challenges.

Requirements

• 1+ years’ experience with market data trading floor such as Bloomberg, market data management, and reference data.
• Strong understanding of index constituents, pricing, ratings, and security analytics.
• Financial Asset Management knowledge and experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, Finance or related degree and a minimum of five (5) years of relevant development or combination of education, training and experience.
• Strong influencing skills to elicit requirements, write user stories as well as business and functional specifications.
• Strong analytical ability to work with market data to create insights and make recommendations to business users.
• Experience with any relational database including Oracle, MS SQL, Snowflake, Azure SQL for data analysis and exploration.
• Experience with data analysis and reporting using Python and Excel VBA.
• Excellent communication skills to create meaningful and compelling stories to convey complex requirements and solutions to clients.
• Energy, enthusiasm, motivation, and a results-oriented attitude.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau and Power BI is a plus

Responsibilities

• Partner effectively with business stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements and document business needs for Investment Management and Investment Operations.
• Distill complex business processes into clear and actionable user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Develop strong understanding of the business needs to identify opportunities for enhancements and new features, assess and document risks of various solutions and prioritize client requirements.
• Collaborate with business partners to perform data validation and ensure data integrity.
• Perform data analysis and data integration across multiple systems to provide business user a comprehensive view of clients, portfolios and prospects.
• Provide functional expertise to agile teams during development, implementation, testing of complex projects.
• Define and execute test cases on the supported systems.

Benefits

• annual discretionary bonus
• 401(k) plan with a generous match
• recognition rewards
• comprehensive benefits package
• range of competitive healthcare options
• insurance
• disability benefits
• employee stock investment program
• learning resources
• career development programs
• reimbursement for certain education expenses
• paid time off (vacation / holidays / sick / leave / parental & caregiving leave / bereavement / volunteering / floating holidays)
• motivational wellbeing program
• Three weeks paid time off the first year
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with 85% company match on your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions, up to the IRS limits
• Employee Stock Investment Program
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Purchase of company funds with no sales charge
• Onsite fitness center and recreation center
• Onsite cafeteria

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level