Investment Management Product Owner/Business Analysis Lead Director, Business Analysis

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future.  We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action.  We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

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Note: This role will require attendance in the NYC office weekly on average of 1-3 days per week.

Get To Know The Opportunity:

You will help to drive the transformation of the Investment Management business into a leading technology and data driven business. You will work with talented individuals who will not only make it a fun place to work but will also help take you to the next level in your career. As the Investment Management IT Product Owner/Business Analysis lead in Voya Investment Management you would play a key role in defining the cutting-edge technology solutions to address the real business needs.

The Contributions You'll Make:

• Act as a voice of the customers – understand above all the investment business needs and translate them into business and technical requirements.
• Work with business partners to define the future products and roadmap.
• Understand and articulate the technology vision and strategy.
• Ensure that technology solution is successfully aligned with the business goals and priorities.
• Build a strong rapport with the investment teams, operations personnel and information technology team members.
• Perform data-driven analysis and develop recommendations to guide decision making.
• Key member of the scrum team responsible for making sure that development processes align with the product roadmap.
• Manage the Product Backlog effectively to maximize the delivered value, including developing and clearly communicating sprint goals and priorities; creating and clearly communicating product backlog items; ensuring that the product backlog is transparent, visible and understood
• Define users stories based on customer requirements. Translate business needs into requirements for a technical audience, including creating user stories, synthesizing use cases, defining acceptance criteria, documenting features overview.
• Coordinate and assist in the testing of new products and features

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in science, finance, business administration or related field.  Graduate degree is a plus
• 8+ years of professional experience with leadership in Investment Management technology, business analysis and the Investment Management business.
• 4+ years of product ownership experience

Minimum Skills:

• Experience in the asset management industry with focus on trading, portfolio management, portfolio analysis, analytics and data management. This experience can come from acting in functional capabilities or technology supporting the functions
• Data mining and data analysis experience with investment data
• Experience with investments platforms in the trading, portfolio management, IBOR, ABOR and da