Transaction Management Implementation Analyst, Assistant Vice President

State Street • Quincy, MA

3d • $80,000 - $140,000

About The Position

The Alpha Services Strategy, Solutioning, and Implementation Team at State Street is seeking a qualified Client Implementation Analyst to support the industry’s first comprehensive front-to-back client servicing platform. This leadership role is dedicated to facilitating end-to-end integration for clients, encompassing all asset classes, including equities, fixed income, and complex instruments such as derivatives, bank loans, and repurchase agreements (repos).

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience with front, middle, and back office integration, functionality, and electronic trading platforms.
• Strong understanding of Transaction Management Middle Office services and operating models; subject matter expertise in standard financial services static data as it applies to middle office trade processing.
• Strong knowledge of financial instruments and asset classes such as Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and structured products including TBAs and Repos.
• In-depth understanding and prior experience with industry utilities such as DTCC CTM, DTCC Alert, FX Connect, other Middle Office vendor applications, and messaging protocols like XML and SWIFT.
• Proven history of understanding and analyzing complex client use cases and large data sets; ability to create visual dashboards using tools such as Microsoft PowerBI.
• Expertise in Power Query for data transformation, cleansing, preparation, and integration from multiple sources and formats.
• Ability to interpret client requirements and translate those requirements into State Street-specific data configuration tasks.
• Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills; attention to detail and organization – able to independently troubleshoot and gather supporting evidence.
• Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently and prioritize work accordingly.
• Expertise in MS Office, including MS Visio, Project, and PowerPoint.
• Competency in SDLC & Agile Methodology and tools (i.e., JIRA, Rally, RTC).
• BS degree in Business, Finance, Economics or Engineering.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to analyze large data setups using Microsoft Co-Pilot is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Oversee due diligence activities to ensure a thorough understanding of client requirements and operational environments.
• Identify gaps in current operating models and drive the design of client solutions, including trade and architecture flows, operational processes, and business system functionality.
• Manage the implementation and onboarding plan, including project timelines, conversion strategies, and post-go-live activities for client onboarding and implementation projects.
• Analyze post go-live change requests, collaborating with all stakeholders to define solutions, supervise testing, and oversee deployment in the live production environment.
• Drive the delivery of cross-operations, high priority projects across all typical project phases.
• Work with external clients and portfolio managers to configure the Alpha platform for client-specific workflows.
• Project initiation and scoping- including plan definition and managing realistic expectations for successful delivery with project stakeholders.
• Manage business analysis and requirements definition.
• Support ongoing project management- including progress monitoring, reporting and quality assurance throughout the project.
• Build and manage strong relationships with project sponsors and stakeholders in Operations, Technology and the business, understanding competing priorities across these groups.
• Work with Operations business units to assess and streamline processes in order to mitigate risk, cost or service issues and generate efficiencies.
• Collaborate with other teams to share approaches, develop best practices and improve team capabilities to successfully migrate clients.

Benefits

• 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)
• eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
• inclusive development opportunities
• flexible work-life support
• paid volunteer days
• vibrant employee networks

What This Job Offers

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