Functional Job Title : Business Analyst (BA)

Reports to : AVP, 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 - Officer 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 - Officer 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

- 3-5 years experience as a business Analyst or BI Analyst in a data-centric project environment.

- Minimum Bachelor degree in Science/Finance/Engineering. CFA/FRM is a plus.

- Understanding of Risk 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

- 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.

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