Senior Business Analyst

3 weeks ago

Boston MA, United States HarbourVest Partners Full time

Job Description Summary

For over forty years, HarbourVest has been home to a committed team of professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to deliver impactful solutions to our clients and investing partners. As our global firm grows, we continue to add individuals who seek a collaborative, open-door culture that values diversity and innovative thinking.

In our collegial environment that’s marked by low turnover and high energy, you’ll be inspired to grow and thrive. Here, you will be encouraged to build on your strengths and acquire new skills and experiences.

We are committed to fostering an environment of inclusion that promotes mutual respect among all employees. Understanding and valuing these differences optimizes the potential of both the individual and the firm.

HarbourVest is an equal opportunity employer.

This position will be a hybrid work arrangement, which translates to 2-3 days minimum per week in the office.

This Senior Business Analyst role will contribute to the Vanguard Platform and Services team within the IT organization. HarbourVest established a strategic partnership with Vanguard to offer an industry-first product that offers private equity investments to eligible retail investors. These products and services have been growing since their inception 3 years ago and this role will continue to advance the growth of these investment products and the enabling platforms.

The ideal candidate is someone who:

  • Consistently performs with a positive and proactive attitude to understand business needs and contributes to technology solutions that achieve business and client objectives.
  • Builds and maintains effective working relationships with internal and external teammates.
  • Operates with a continuous learning and improvement approach to deliver high quality and timely outcomes.
  • Collaborates optimally with diverse roles and teams both in person and remote to achieve collective goals.

What you will do:

  • Contribute to product roadmap development and delivery to achieve strategic business objectives.
  • Engage business and technology partners to define and document requirements, features or user stories, while proactively identifying and mitigating related dependencies or risks.
  • Provides input and feedback relating to solutions alternatives and prioritization to support delivering the highest business value.
  • Coordinates with teammates to iterate on feature development, testing and readiness.
  • Develops test plans and supports testing to ensure the technical development enables the business needs.
  • Drive effective business use by assisting in the day-to-day platform support, including the management of system upgrades, releases, and change control processes.
  • Proactively seeks out challenges to identify and resolve potential issues with new development or ongoing operational support.
  • Identifies and implements efficiencies to optimize capabilities.
  • Conduct or facilitate training and information sharing sessions with supporting documentation or reference material for employees and team members as needed.
  • Additional responsibilities related to the role as required.

What you bring:

  • Proven capabilities and experience in three or more of the following areas : Applications Development, Business Process and Workflow Management, Enterprise Architecture, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, and Systems Support.
  • Background in Financial Services and/or financial applications; including experience with transactional systems.
  • Experience with Agile software development, traditional project management, and Six Sigma methodologies and techniques.
  • Successful results with large or sophisticated projects and processes from initiation through implementation.
  • Effective interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, including experience translating business and technical concepts or decisions with diverse audiences.
  • Strengths with analytical, data, problem solving and collaboration skills.
  • Experience with systems integrations and data mapping preferred.
  • Attention to detail and quality to fulfill responsibilities.
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office, process/workflow and collaboration tools.

Education Preferred

  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A) or Science (B.S), or equivalent experience

Experience

  • 3-8 years or more, in Financial Services preferred

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