Senior Business Analyst, Post Trade

What we are looking for

At Charles River Development (CRD) we’ve been creating some of the most insightful and complex asset management technologies since 1997. Through our commitment to product quality and operating through a client-focused lens, we’ve experienced continuous growth. Charles River IMS is strategically aligned to innovate the future of investment management technologies. Together with State Street’s middle and back office capabilities, Charles River’s cloud-deployed software technology forms the foundation of State Street Alpha℠.

The Chares River Development Post-Trade team is looking to hire a Senior Business Analyst who will be responsible for working with clients and development to create solutions to improve the client experience, the product feature set, and the strategic position of the CRD Investment Management System.

Why this job is important to us

Charles River Development brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. Our diverse team of highly skilled technologists and professionals are agile thinkers and problem solvers, committed to our end users and engineering excellence. We use mentorship and teamwork to impact and drive our business forward every day. By joining the Post-Trade team, you will use advanced technology and critical thinking to challenge the status quo and drive results.

What you are responsible for

• The Senior Business Analyst will become a Charles River product expert and help to ensure that our software products effectively aid our end users with their trading and front office workflows. In consultation with our financial industry clients and internal product teams, they will utilize business and technical knowledge to improve product performance and competitive advantages.
• The Senior Business Analyst will work on post-trade matching and settlement workflows across all instrument types (equity, fixed income, derivatives, FX, etc.), participating in the full software development lifecycle and contributing as the Product Owner of a feature-focused product development team
• They must be familiar with both financial and technical concepts, with a strong ability to deliver against specific requirements in a timely fashion on a project-by-project basis.

Responsibilities:

• Research and produce business and technical requirement documents
• Analyze the front, middle and back-office workflows and produce detailed functional documents.
• Work directly with customers and product management teams to gather product requirements and develop feature specifications; involvement in all aspects of the software product life cycle
• Apply detailed knowledge of business requirements and workflows to assist in product development
• Partner with development to help develop, implement, and refine features
• Plan and schedule validation tasks; provide hands-on manual tests; develop verification plans and processes
• Provide feedback on product performance
• Review documentation to ensure accurate and complete documentation
• Provide client beta testing support and train personnel on capabilities of new product releases
• Assist with the management of project schedules and deliverables
• Assist implementation and support to troubleshoot, reproduce and resolve escalated client issues
• Actively participate in the Agile Scrum as the Product Owner and run the grooming meetings, review the completed work in sprint demos, track progress in standups and plan the sprints with Dev lead.
• Create Jiras, maintain prioritized backlog, release plans and roadmap.
• Work closely with QA, review and approve QA test plans and test results.
• Coordination with cross functional teams to complete the project on-time and release the product.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development lifecycle experience, particularly Agile Scrum methodology preferred
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with post-trade matching and settlement product development is a must
• Strong understanding of the post-trade matching vendor workflows, FIX workflows and settlement workflows with SWIFT messages
• Experience building integrations with third party vendors
• Experience with MSSQL preferred
• Familiarity with various types of financial instruments (Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives etc.)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation skills
• Advanced writing skills, including the ability to abstract/summarize highly detailed information