Investment Operations Automation Specialist

Our Firm

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.

We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.

Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.

For more information, please visit americancentury.com.

Job Summary

In the Investment Operations Automation Specialist (known internally as Business Solutions Specialist) role, you will automate processes, increase efficiency and scalability, and reduce risk within the Investment Operations department. You will collaborate with teams across Investment Operations including Investment Performance and Reporting, Fund Administration, and Middle Office, and will also work closely with the Information Technology department. The Investment Operations Business Solutions role will design, develop, and test solutions, using no to medium code tools to drive innovation and agility.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, MO office.

What You'll Do

• Lead transformation efforts within Investment Operations via the exploration and implementation of new technologies.
• Perform business analysis and process efficiency reviews to find opportunities for increasing efficiency and/or reducing risk. Document requirements based on analysis.
• Implement process improvements by developing applications using Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Low-code Tools and/or Python and maintain documentation of solutions.
• Apply Structured Query Language (SQL), Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Tools, and Data Visualization Tools to develop data sources and reports.
• Collaborate with business partners from Information Technology to design and implement applications.
• Perform software testing of applications and solutions developed within the team, vendor solutions, and applications developed internally by Information Technology.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience developing and testing applications using Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Low-code tools, or Python.
• Validated understanding of databases, data models, Structured Query Language (SQL), Transform, Load (ETL) Tools, and Data Visualization Tools.
• Possess strong technology skills and the ability to learn new systems and tools quickly.
• Effective communicator, both verbally and written, whose style can be described as clear, concise, and detailed.
• Self-motivated person who can work independently but also understands the value of being part of a successful team. Flexible and adapts to a constantly evolving environment.
• Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.

Even Better If You Have

• Familiarity with Investment Operations functions such as Investment Performance, Investment Reporting, Fund Accounting, Financial Reporting, Tax, and Middle Office.
• Experience with identifying, designing, and implementing process improvements.
• Hands-on experience using UiPath, Alteryx, ServiceNow, and Tableau.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture.

Working Conditions

• Appropriate coverage of primary responsibilities is expected p