Senior Associate/Assistant Vice President, Business Analyst

Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $205 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2024. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. The firm has over 1200 employees and offices in 23 cities worldwide.

We are committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

For additional information please visit our website at www.oaktreecapital.com

Responsibilities

The role of Senior Associate/AVP, Business Analyst embodies leadership qualities and provides a comprehensive understanding of initiative objectives essential for project execution. Business analysts are pivotal to our continued growth and success. With their commitment to innovation, these analysts seek, develop, and implement strategic initiatives to enhance efficiency and productivity. This role demands excellent communication skills, meticulous documentation, and transparency, as business analysts routinely interact with technical leaders, developers, and business partners. They must gather, review, and analyze data to extract meaningful insights, enabling informed and data-driven decision-making and recommendations. Additionally, they facilitate collaboration by connecting different business units or technical teams and use negotiation skills to resolve conflicts and reach consensus among stakeholders.

This role is a brand ambassador not only to technology at Oaktree but to the IT Strategy & Programs team as we continue to grow and develop our brand. The IT Strategy & Programs mission is to function as a visible center of excellence that promotes transformation, service excellence and disciplined execution supporting our digital transformation strategy, the success of our partners and the organization. We are an ambitious team with an entrepreneurial mindset. We seek to inspire, influence and collaborate within and across teams.   

Responsibilities Include:

• Communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of requirements, timelines, and deliverables.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear and concise technical specifications that developers can understand and implement.
• Create designs and formulates models, diagrams and documentation using industry standards, tools, version control, and build and test automation to meet business, technical, security, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Stay current with needs and strategies; utilizing formal and informal written communication methods (for example, emails, PowerPoint presentations, executive updates, task lists, updates) to communicate updates and findings; and facilitating project meetings and presentations to all audience types across the organization.
• Lead or participate in multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation; managing project scope; adjusting schedules when necessary; determining daily priorities; ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; following proper escalation paths; and managing client and vendor relationships.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate solutions with other enterprise systems, such as CRM, Accounting, and BI platforms.
• Collect data to identify trends, challenges and opportunities for improvement.
• Engage stakeholders, conduct workshops and collaborate with technical teams to validate proposed solutions. 
• Gather, review, and analyze data to extract meaningful insights to enable informed and data-driven decision-making. 
• Consult and advise in procedures relating to training and Quality Assurance (QA), testing and roll-out plan. Ensuring alignment between business objectives and software testing.
• Lead the analysis and evaluation of application functionality, providing recommendations to increase utilization of standard application functionality to improve business processes and capabilities.
• Map, review, and optimize business processes in relation to technical solutions, identifying areas for automation and efficiency. This includes recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes.

Qualifications

• Senior Associate 5+ years of experience - AVP 8+ years of experience in a business