Business Analyst Front Office Systems CRD

Business Analyst Front Office Systems CRD

Business Analyst

Boston, MA

Asset Management

JO-1803-577

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to support our front-office implementations. This is an exceptional opportunity to help build our future state business architecture to support and expand the capabilities of our Hedge Fund strategies. The Senior Business Analyst reports to a Business Architect and is a member of the Information Technology team.

Responsibilities:

• Function as a liaison between multiple groups: Portfolio Management, Trading, Operations, and Information Technology
• Assist with defining the future state business models to strategically enable the long/short portfolio management team to gain efficiencies
• Define business workflows to support asset classes such as Equities, ETFs, Futures, Options, Structured Notes, FX, Total Return Swaps, Interest Rates Swaps, and Volatility Swaps
• Manage the delivery of order management systems and integrate the system master and position data
• Work with the project team to perform bi-directional integration with security master, trading, and accounting systems
• Work with the team to design appropriate data models for strategic data stores in the area of Account Master, Broker/Custodian Master, and Position Master
• Perform data analysis, define data governance and quality checks, and define process controls

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in economics, finance, statistics, mathematics, computer science or a related field; master's degree or CFA preferred
• At least 5+ years of experience in the asset management business, ideally with a buy-side multi-asset focus
• Recent experience managing and implementing multi-asset class front office solutions with the following security types: Equities, ETFs, Futures, Options, Structured Notes, FX, Total Return Swaps, Interest Rates Swaps, and Volatility Swaps
• Experience implementing and integrating middle and back office functions with accounting systems/providers and for Total Return Performance and GIPS Composite information
• Experience delivering software as part of an Agile delivery team
• Strong knowledge of enterprise data management and business process modeling
• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills; Strong written and verbal communications skills