State Street - Senior Associate - Business Analyst - Finance Division

Functional Job Title : Business Analyst (BA) - Senior Associate (6-8 years)

Reports to : Team lead, Finance Risk Infrastructure Business Solutions (FRIBS)

Department/ Division : Finance

Basic Purpose of Job:

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on State Street to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. The Business Analyst - Senior Associate would be supporting multiple high priority, risk and finance driven (driven by U.S. and European Regulators), complex, global and cross-organizational initiatives to meet various functional requirements. The Business Analyst - Senior Associate will work with numerous functions within State Street to help drive activities to produce and update documentation of internal processes, data controls, periodic testing and validation of controls.

Responsibilities & Tasks Include:

- Develop subject matter expertise on respective functional domain: finance, risk and regulatory processes

- Partner with business functions to gather business requirement, Create requirement documents, identify and document current and future data flow in and around the systems

- Understand the data elements associated with functions and their utilization that drives business decisions

- Drive design sessions with the implementation team to define the solution

- Develop, maintain and enhance Epics, stories, testing standards, processes in an AGILE environment

- Able to conduct ad-hoc analysis as requested by user group

- Facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders

- Understanding of business intelligence or canned reporting framework for finance, risk and regulatory processes

- Customer focused, team driven mentality; serving as role model for colleagues, coaching and motivating team members to make needed adjustments in plans to meet milestones and to achieve goals.

Job Requirements:

Education and Experience

- 6 - 8 years- experience as a business Analyst or BI Analyst in a data-centric project environment.

- Minimum Bachelor degree in Science/Finance/Engineering.

- Understanding of Risk, Finance and Regulatory business functions such as Counterparty management, limit management, Regulatory Reporting, PD.

- Ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects, activities and tasks under time constraints.

- Experience with both traditional Waterfall SDLC and Agile.

- Placing high value on accuracy; diligent about upholding control points and procedures in the Software development lifecycle

Skills/ Knowledge -

- Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills and to liaise with and influence senior subject matter experts

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, Visio), PL/SQL

- Experience in BI tools: spotfire, Cognos

- Experience in trade booking tools such as Summit, Intrader

- Flexible, able to adapt to changing priorities in an Agile and informal setting.

- Willing to take ownership and initiative, be accountable and proactive, and work independently in a fast-paced environment.