Business Analyst Performance Product

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Job Description

We are seeking a growth-oriented professional in our Bangalore location with experience in Product Development and Product Management, preferably in an Investment Analytics reporting function of asset servicing industries. The successful candidate should also have a number of the Project Management and Analysis skills required to deliver new product capabilities or product enhancements

This team will report into Performance Analytics Product organisation.

What you will be responsible for

As a Performance Product Business Analyst, you will be responsible to:

• Support demand management for multiple initiatives within the product group i.e capturing, prioritizing, and working with senior stakeholder for finalizing resourcing/funding.
• Develop product roadmaps, business cases, project objectives, operating models, product design, product requirements, process flows, and wireframes.
• Document project schedules, milestones, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, architecture, and cross product dependencies.
• Collaborate with and follow-through Service Delivery, Sales, Client Service, Technology, Product Management, and other internal stakeholders in the development and rollout of new products and product capabilities from their inception to eventual completion.
• Provide regular status updates and supporting program management reports as needed
• Communicate with Agile scrum teams, business owners and product management, to ensure that  stakeholders at various levels are well informed, to learn and manage expectations, and to mitigate risks to keep the project roadmap on track
• Support product testing through the creation of test scripts, development of test data, and execution of user acceptance testing
• Collaborate closely with SQA and Development teams on delivery of fixes and enhancement
• Data steward tasks for stories
• Become a subject matter expert for Performance & Analytics Applications
• Review functionality and CUAT testing
  • Review SQA defects and testing with SQA
• Production Readiness:
  • Write release notes, provide screenshots and details for training documents
  • Work with model office and business on rolling out and implementation of new capabilities
  • Provide training on new capabilities and enhancements
  • Support production deployments
• Support large project implementations including client onboarding
• Support operational changes to the business product, including documenting current state, transformation initiatives, and future state
• Identify opportunities for efficiencies (to improve productivity and performance) and drive delivery of such projects (automation, process improvements)

What we value

These skills will enable your success in this role:

• Experience in financial services operations, reporting and enhancement initiatives.
• Ability to conceptualize and document product enhancement / product transformation activities.
• Ability to articulate product capabilities and benefits to teammates, senior management, clients, and colleagues distributed globally.
• Ability to work with stakeholders, develop and maintain relationships, and act as a persuasive change agent with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Capability to analyse quantitative and technical problems
• Ability to leverage conventional and alternative resources to gather and distil information/data, and utilize such facts and data to inform decision making
• Ability to distil complex information into clear, concise, actionable insights
• Aptitude to adapt to and operate effectively in a changing and uncertain environment
• Strong collaboration, facilitation, presentation, and negotiation skills
• Strong communication skills to clearly articulate ideas and ability to use experience and analysis to gain support, facilitate consensus, and forge collaboration with internal and external parties

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of work experience (exposure to product management function is valued.)
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Financial Management or equivalent.
• Advanced degrees in Finance or related professional certifications (CA/CFA/CIPM/CAIA or equivalent)
• Comfortable with quantitative methods and solutions
• Strong technology insights with demonstrated ability to work across business lines/functions
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Prior Product Management, Change Management, or relevant Consulting experience
  • Knowledge of Investment Performance Analytics and applications
  • Experience with project management and documentation tools (eg: Confluence, Jira)
  • Python (Pandas), SQL skills and experience with visualization software (eg: PowerBI, Qlik, etc)

About State Street

What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we're making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we've been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans, among other perks. You'll have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.