Product Analyst (London)

Insight Investment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Investment in London is seeking a senior Product Analyst to join the Investment Solutions product team, driving automation and efficiency within the portfolio management platform.

You will face off to business and technology stakeholders, gather requirements, write user stories, test, and handover to IT support. Mentoring junior colleagues and supporting developers and testers are also key parts of the role.

Qualifications

• Experience gathering requirements and documenting stories for IT delivery.
• Ability to translate business needs into epics and acceptance criteria.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication across business and tech.
• Experience with Agile delivery using Scrum or Kanban.

Responsibilities

• Develop and detail product backlog with epics and user stories.
• Mentor junior Product Analysts and support developers and testers.
• Act as liaison between product owners, business and development teams.
• Support testing planning, execution and documentation for sprints.
• Maintain relationships across teams and sites.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Independence

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Mural

Swagger

GraphQL

SQL

Job description

Insight Investment is looking for a senior-level Product Analyst to join the Investment Solutions product team in London as we look to provide automation and efficiency to our portfolio management platform.

As a Product Analyst within the team, the individual must be able to face off to both business and technology stakeholders, applying an organised and proactive approach. Tasks range from business requirement gathering and documentation, writing user stories, testing, handover to IT support teams, and occasionally, ad-hoc query handling and support tasks.

Role Responsibilities

• Work with the Product Owner and the business to develop and detail the product backlog in the form of epics and stories describing problems and expected outcomes, running refinement sessions with the development team
• Mentor the existing junior Product Analyst on the team
• Assist the Development Lead, by providing support to the Developers and Testers on the team
• Act as a communication channel between product owners, business owners and the development team
• Contribute to the planning and execution of system and acceptance testing
• Undertake documentation to support the team's sprint activities
• Build and maintain a good working relationship with the business representatives, working across teams and multiple sites

Experience Required

• Excellent working knowledge of fixed income instruments and derivatives, including pricing, analytics and trading and uses in portfolio management
• Ability to apply suitable analytical approaches to requirements discovery, documentation and collaborative solution delivery
• Capture of user stories and artifacts in JIRA, Confluence and Mural
• Use of AI to capture and create stories to accelerated delivery where possible
• Skills in collecting and interpreting data, analysing results to identify patterns and trends in data
• Competent working with data, ideally through REST APIs through Swagger, GraphQL and SQL
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management experience with the ability to effectively communicate at a level and depth appropriate to the audience
• Demonstrable experience of gathering requests and technical specifications
• Experience working in Agile delivery teams using Scrum or Kanban, including participation in different Scrum ceremonies
• A sense of personal responsibility and the drive to own problems, can work self-directed and independently to accomplish results
• Provides assistance to developers and testers of the team. Pro-actively removing blockers to maximise team productivity
• Creates an environment where individuals are encouraged and supported to achieve their goals
• Promotes a positive team culture. Identifies and implements ways to improve teamwork. Builds effective relationships throughout the organisation

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About Insight Investment

Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients' needs. Founded in 2002, Insight's collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities. Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: https://www.insightinvestment.com/corporate/