System Business Analyst (Investment Management)

TL;DR

System Business Analyst (Fintech): Bridging the gap between business stakeholders (portfolio managers, analysts, quants) and the technology team, ensuring that requirements are understood and met to support business objectives with an accent on fixed-income data products. Focus on data analysis and proactively raising obstacles.

Location: Must be able to visit client office in the Newark, NJ minimum 3 times per week.

Salary: 150,000 to 170,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global is a US-based investment management company listed in the Fortune Global 500, offering insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services to retail and institutional clients across the United States and over 40 other countries.

What you will do

• Analyze and define business and functional requirements to build fixed-income data products.
• Communicate effectively to conduct walkthroughs with the development team, QA, and stakeholders, and write requirements.
• Take full responsibility and ownership of product features to ensure the development team and QA understand business deliverables and acceptance criteria, review test cases/scenarios, and perform UAT as needed.
• Conduct data analysis, including diving into code (Stored Procs, Java) to understand and extrapolate business logic and document data flows based on data analysis.
• Assist PO by providing input into backlog refinement and sprint planning, and help refine and validate user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Proactively raise obstacles and call out issues that may impact sprint delivery.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Business System Analysis at a buy-side Fixed Income firm, Investment management or asset management.
• Strong SQL skills for querying and analyzing data from relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
• Ability to read Python code.
• Demonstrated experience with various SDLC and application development and release control methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
• Experience in various Fixed Income instruments is required (e.g., U.S. Treasuries, Investment Grade, High Yield, EMD, Mortgages, Sovereign Debt / Government Bonds, Corporate Bonds, OTCD, and Repos).
• Working knowledge of data governance and the ability to ensure high data quality is maintained throughout the data lifecycle of a project.

Nice to have

• Experience working with Seismic, Vermillion and Arria Software.
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools (Jira, Confluence).
• Ability to create, maintain and breakdown User Stories, Tasks and Epics in Jira.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Vacation as per the laws of your country.
• Health insurance policy for you and your loved ones.
• 10 days sick pay without a doctor's note.
• Time off for state holidays according to the official calendar.
• Pleasant environment with corporate parties and get-togethers for colleagues.
• Comfort service for solving technical and everyday problems at work.