Lead/Senior Business Analyst- Asset Management

EPAM Systems Inc; Hyderabad, Pune District, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Epam Systems seeks a Lead/Senior Business Analyst to join our Asset Management team, driving a Finance/IT transformation with emphasis on upstream data quality and interface standardization. Translate complex data needs into verifiable requirements and outcomes.

You will collaborate with Finance SMEs and IT delivery teams to define acceptance criteria, manage dependencies, and deliver BRDs, user stories, and process maps while maintaining traceability across stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7-15 years IT experience in business analysis, requirement gathering and BRD/FRD documentation.
• Knowledge of VaR calculations and risk models.
• Expertise in data and interface analysis, including data flows, source-to-target mappings, data quality issues and reconciliation logic.
• Background in developing and maintaining interface catalogs and data dictionaries.
• Understanding of asset management Finance data and reporting concepts (AUM, flows, revenues) and controls.
• Skills in structured requirements elicitation, decomposition, prioritization and sign-off management.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies and SQL.
• Competency in stakeholder management and facilitating workshops.
• Ability to work independently with strong ownership and self-driven approach.

Responsibilities

• Decompose the upstream landscape, clarifying sources, formats, frequency and controls.
• Document lineage from upstream sources to outputs and maintain an interface catalog and data catalog.
• Analyze feeds such as Salesforce and SIMCORP and other product/custodian data sources.
• Elicit and structure requirements across upstream data domains (AUM, flows, prices, revenues).
• Define data schedules and snapshot needs for daily, weekly and monthly reporting windows.
• Establish business processes, approvals and control design; redesign where needed.
• Support subsystem transition strategy for platforms and manage dependencies.
• Define acceptance criteria and align business rules; clarify intent and edge cases.
• Facilitate workshops to resolve ambiguity in data definitions; maintain decision logs and RAID.
• Produce BRDs, user stories, process maps and sign-off packs; ensure traceability.
• Facilitate workshops, align teams and manage conflicting priorities among stakeholders.

Skills

Business analysis

BRD/FRD documentation

SQL

Agile methodologies

Data quality analysis

Interface analysis

Stakeholder management

Requirements elicitation

Data dictionaries

VaR / risk models

Tools

Salesforce

SIMCORP

Job description

We are seeking a Lead/Senior Business Analyst to join our Asset Management team, driving a Finance/IT transformation program with a strong emphasis on upstream data quality, interface standardization and end-to-end consistency of reporting outputs. This role sits at the intersection of Finance SMEs, multiple IT delivery teams and architecture and is accountable for turning complex data and process needs into implementable requirements and verified outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Decompose the upstream landscape, including sources, formats, frequency and controls, and clarify key data definitions
• Document lineage from upstream sources to program outputs and maintain an interface catalog and data catalog
• Analyze key feeds and data sources, such as Salesforce, SIMCORP, Global Product Master, and GDH/LDH, along with additional product and custodian feeds
• Elicit and structure requirements across upstream data domains, including static data, AUM, flows, fund/transaction/holding data, prices, trailer fees, revenues and client data
• Define data schedules and snapshot needs on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, with attention to month-end flash versus actual reporting windows
• Establish business process definitions, approval/sign-off workflows and associated control design, including redesign of processes where needed
• Support subsystem transition strategy for platforms such as GVOR and IPR, including dependency management
• Define acceptance criteria, align business rules and support solution design by clarifying intent and edge cases
• Facilitate workshops and decision-making sessions to resolve ambiguity in data definitions and ownership, maintaining decision logs and RACI documentation
• Make cross-workstream dependencies visible early through RAID logs, confirm assumptions and maintain traceability across teams
• Produce high-quality analysis artifacts, including BRDs, user stories, process maps, decision logs and sign-off packs
• Facilitate workshops, align multiple teams and manage conflicting priorities among stakeholders

Requirements

• 7-15 years of experience in IT, with proven experience in business analysis, requirement gathering, and BRD/FRD documentation
• Knowledge of VaR calculations and risk models
• Expertise in data and interface analysis, including data flows, source-to-target mappings, data quality issues and reconciliation logic
• Background in developing and maintaining interface catalogs and data dictionaries
• Understanding of asset management Finance data and reporting concepts, such as AUM, flows and revenue components, along with the associated needs for controls, evidence and auditability
• Skills in structured requirements elicitation, decomposition, prioritization and sign-off management, with the ability to write unambiguous requirements
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies and SQL
• Competency in stakeholder management, including facilitating workshops, aligning multiple teams and managing conflicting priorities
• Capability to work independently and drive analysis activities with strong ownership and a self-driven working style