Business Analyst, Operations

Experience

Early Career

Location

Stamford

Focus

Operations

Business

Point72

A Career with Point72’s Operations Team

Point72’s Operations team supports all operational aspects of trade processing, reconciliation, financing, and reporting firmwide for all products, including equities, derivatives, bonds, foreign exchange and futures, and digital assets across global markets. The team provides opportunities to build deep operational expertise and broad exposure across the firm, supporting internal mobility and long-term career development.

What you’ll do

• Elicit, document, and maintain clear business requirements, functional specifications, and process flows.
• Author high‑quality Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), functional specifications, and user stories.
• Translate operational needs into actionable requirements for technology and engineering teams.
• Develop test plans, test cases, and execution scripts for system enhancements and new workflows.
• Perform functional, regression, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Partner with stakeholders to validate outcomes and ensure solutions meet business objectives.
• Identify manual, repetitive, or error‑prone processes across Operations.
• Leverage business process automation tools (e.g., low‑code/no‑code platforms, workflow tools, RPA) to streamline workflows.
• Apply AI‑enabled solutions where appropriate, including data extraction, reconciliation, exception management, and reporting.
• Analyze operational problems and propose scalable, technology‑based solutions.
• Collaborate with Technology and Operations teams to implement enhancements.
• Support post‑implementation monitoring and continuous improvement.

What’s Required

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, mathematics, computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience writing business requirements, functional specs, and process documentation.
• Experience developing and executing test plans and test cases.
• Experience with business process mapping and workflow design.
• Proficient in business process automation tools such as Power Automate, UiPath, Alteryx, or similar.
• Ability to use AI‑enabled tools for process improvements such as data classification, extraction, reconciliation, and summarization.
• Experience using SQL, Python, or other scripting languages
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and documentation tools.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Volunteer opportunities
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth. For more information, visit

The annual base salary range for this role is $85,000-$90,000 (USD) , which does not include overtime compensation, discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.

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