Analyst, Product and Platform Management

Focus Financial Partners; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Annual bonus

Job summary

Focus Financial Partners in St. Louis is seeking a Product & Platform Analyst to help manage and evolve enterprise wealth technology platforms.

You will work across business, technology, and vendor teams to understand platforms, identify improvement opportunities, and drive initiatives through to completion. This role requires comfort with ambiguity, problem solving, and the ability to translate needs into platform solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to work through incomplete information.
• Ability to understand how applications, data, integrations, and dependencies fit together.
• Strong communication skills to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of relevant platforms, including capabilities, configuration, integrations, dependencies, and key business uses.
• Assess current platform operations and identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, or improve them.
• Identify gaps to improve platform consistency, scalability, efficiency, and alignment with tech standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate needs into platform solutions and next steps.
• Research platform and vendor capabilities, evaluate options, and recommend improvements.
• Coordinate with business, technology teams, and vendors to address dependencies and drive work to completion.
• Support platform implementations, migrations, consolidations, integrations, testing, and enhancements.
• Investigate platform issues and guide resolution with the right resources.
• Maintain documentation of configurations, integrations, dependencies, processes, and key decisions.
• Assist with acquisitions and organizational changes in tech discovery and onboarding.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Technical aptitude

APIs and data flows

System integrations

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Job Description Summary:

The Product & Platform Analyst supports the management and evolution of enterprise wealth technology platforms. This role works across business, technology, and vendor teams to understand how platforms are used and managed, identify opportunities for improvement, and help drive initiatives through completion.

The Analyst looks beyond individual applications to understand how platforms fit together across the Wealth Technology environment, including their connections to other systems, data, services, vendors, and business processes. The role requires someone who is comfortable learning new technologies, working through ambiguity, solving problems, and identifying opportunities to improve consistency, scalability, efficiency, and how technology works together across the organization.

Job Description:

• Develop a strong working understanding of relevant platforms, including capabilities, configuration, integrations, dependencies, and key business uses.
• Assess how platforms and technology-enabled processes operate today and identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, or improve them.
• Identify gaps and opportunities to improve platform consistency, scalability, efficiency, and alignment with broader technology standards and direction.
• Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand needs, requirements, and constraints and help translate them into platform solutions and next steps.
• Research platform and vendor capabilities, evaluate options, and develop recommendations to support platform decisions and improvements.
• Coordinate with business teams, technology teams, and vendors to address dependencies, resolve issues, and drive work toward completion.
• Support platform implementations, migrations, consolidations, integrations, enhancements, testing, and other initiatives.
• Investigate platform issues and opportunities, gather relevant information, engage the right resources, and help drive resolution.
• Maintain useful documentation of platform configurations, integrations, dependencies, processes, and key decisions.
• Support technology discovery, onboarding, and platform transition activities associated with acquisitions and organizational change.
• Proactively communicate findings, risks, dependencies, recommendations, and next steps to business and technology stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve how platforms integrate with other systems, scale with the needs of the business, and support users effectively.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in product or platform support, business or systems analysis, enterprise technology, financial services, or a related area.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work through incomplete or ambiguous information.
• Strong technical aptitude and the ability to understand how applications, processes, data, integrations, and dependencies fit together.
• Familiarity with technology concepts such as APIs, data flows, system integrations, and identity and access concepts.
• Ability to understand and explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated initiative, adaptability, and ability to identify next steps and follow work through to completion.
• Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively across business teams, technology teams, and external vendors.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in wealth management or financial services.
• Experience working with enterprise software, SaaS platforms, or other business applications.
• Experience supporting platform implementations, migrations, integrations, configuration, testing, or process improvement.

This position is an exempt position. The annualized base pay range for this role is expected to be between$90,000-$105,000 base salary compensation range. Actual base pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, subject matter expertise, geographic location where work will be performed, and the applicant's skill set. The base pay is just one component of the total compensation package. Other rewards may include an annual cash bonus and a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401(k). Please note that the job title is subject to change based on the selected candidate's experience and education.

Focus is a leading financial services firm comprised of integrated wealth management, family office, and business management services. Blending deep expertise and expansive resources with a boutique, client-first fiduciary philosophy, Focus helps individuals, families, and institutions navigate complex financial situations with highly personalized solutions tailored to their unique needs. To learn more about Focus, visit www.focusfinancialpartners.com or follow the company on LinkedIn.

EEO Statement

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