Senior Business Analyst, Post Trade

What We Are Looking For
At Charles River Development (CRD) we've been creating some of the most insightful and complex asset management technologies since 1997. Through our commitment to product quality and operating through a client-focused lens, we've experienced continuous growth. Charles River IMS is strategically aligned to innovate the future of investment management technologies. Together with State Street's middle and back office capabilities, Charles River's cloud-deployed software technology forms the foundation of State Street Alpha℠.

The Chares River Development Post-Trade team is looking to hire a Senior Business Analyst who will be responsible for working with clients and development to create solutions to improve the client experience, the product feature set, and the strategic position of the CRD Investment Management System.

Why this job is important to us
Charles River Development brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. Our diverse team of highly skilled technologists and professionals are agile thinkers and problem solvers, committed to our end users and engineering excellence. We use mentorship and teamwork to impact and drive our business forward every day. By joining the Post-Trade team, you will use advanced technology and critical thinking to challenge the status quo and drive results.

What You Are Responsible For

• The Senior Business Analyst will become a Charles River product expert and help to ensure that our software products effectively aid our end users with their trading and front office workflows. In consultation with our financial industry clients and internal product teams, they will utilize business and technical knowledge to improve product performance and competitive advantages.
• The Senior Business Analyst will work on post-trade matching and settlement workflows across all instrument types (equity, fixed income, derivatives, FX, etc.), participating in the full software development lifecycle and contributing as the Product Owner of a feature-focused product development team
• They must be familiar with both financial and technical concepts, with a strong ability to deliver against specific requirements in a timely fashion on a project-by-project basis.

Responsibilities:

• Research and produce business and technical requirement documents
• Analyze the front, middle and back-office workflows and produce detailed functional documents.
• Work directly with customers and product management teams to gather product requirements and develop feature specifications; involvement in all aspects of the software product life cycle
• Apply detailed knowledge of business requirements and workflows to assist in product development
• Partner with development to help develop, implement, and refine features
• Plan and schedule validation tasks; provide hands-on manual tests; develop verification plans and processes
• Provide feedback on product performance
• Review documentation to ensure accurate and complete documentation
• Provide client beta testing support and train personnel on capabilities of new product releases
• Assist with the management of project schedules and deliverables
• Assist implementation and support to troubleshoot, reproduce and resolve escalated client issues
• Actively participate in the Agile Scrum as the Product Owner and run the grooming meetings, review the completed work in sprint demos, track progress in standups and plan the sprints with Dev lead.
• Create Jiras, maintain prioritized backlog, release plans and roadmap.
• Work closely with QA, review and approve QA test plans and test results.
• Coordination with cross functional teams to complete the project on-time and release the product.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development lifecycle experience, particularly Agile Scrum methodology preferred
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with post-trade matching and settlement product development is a must
• Strong understanding of the post-trade matching vendor workflows, FIX workflows and settlement workflows with SWIFT messages
• Experience building integrations with third party vendors
• Experience with MSSQL preferred
• Familiarity with various types of financial instruments (Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives etc.)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation skills
• Advanced writing skills, including the ability to abstract/summarize highly detailed information
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to reconcile conflicting data
• Ability to translate customer business needs into application requirements
• Strong technical background and ability to come up with technical solution
• Demonstrated planning, prioritization and scheduling skills
• Ability to independently ramp up and proactively resolve impediments to make progress.
• Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical product specification documents
• Knowledgeable in one or more CRD functional financial areas is strongly desired.

Education: BS Degree in Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Physics. MS/MBA degree strongly preferred

About State Street
What we do.
State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation we're making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we've been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investments research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow.
We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary in locations, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks. You'll have access to flexible Work Program to help match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity, and Social Responsibility.
We truly believe our employees' diverse backgrounds, experience and perspective are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome the candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift program and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.