Buy Side Business Analyst - Operations - 6 Month contract
- Employer
- Finance Network
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- Aug 15, 2022
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- Job Function
- Banking
- Industry Sector
- Finance - General
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Education
- Bachelors
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Description
The Business Analyst (BA) will be responsible for gathering and understanding the business needs during an OMS/PMS implementation /change project.
The BA will work with various stakeholders across the middle-office function (Compliance, IT, System Teams) to ensure that the requirements are accurately translated into system implementation and that the integrated OMS/PMS implementation meets business requirements.
Experience / Requirements
The ideal candidate will have the following characteristics / experience:
Qualification
The Business Analyst (BA) will be responsible for gathering and understanding the business needs during an OMS/PMS implementation /change project.
The BA will work with various stakeholders across the middle-office function (Compliance, IT, System Teams) to ensure that the requirements are accurately translated into system implementation and that the integrated OMS/PMS implementation meets business requirements.
- Advise Senior management on operational needs and solutions
- Lead the setup of system configurations and operational procedures/processes (e.g. market data feeds, trade files, settlement instructions)
- Assist with portfolio data migration
- Assist in the creation of technology solutions to deliver robust operations functions needs
- Work with system support/implementation teams to ensure sound interconnectivity with internal (front-office) and external parties (Brokers/Custodians)
- Assist in the analysis/evaluation of current workflows/procedures in order to identify areas of improvement
- Troubleshoot technical issues as and when they arise
- Provide staff training on systems implemented
Experience / Requirements
The ideal candidate will have the following characteristics / experience:
- Asset management/buy-side role experience across operations/middle-office function
- Good understanding of the asset management lifecycle
- Strong functional knowledge of the trade settlement process
- Broad product knowledge across asset classes (i.e. equities, fixed-income, PE, alternatives, derivatives etc.)
- Knowledge of fund/portfolio reporting frameworks (e.g. nav production, p&l, performance attribution)
- Proven business analysis skills and experience.
- Experienced in process mapping, writing use cases, user acceptance testing, GAP analysis including the ability to define complex to-be processes and solutions.
- Excellent communication, problem solving and project management discipline skills
- Confident with stakeholder management
- Enthusiastic with proactive attitude
- Strong communications skills
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to use own initiative
- Ability to work in a small team
- Working knowledge of Bloomberg application highly desirable
- Minimum Investment Management Function Experience: 5-8yrs
Qualification
- Degree qualification (preferably finance related)
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