Director, Business Systems Analyst - Eagle STAR - PGIM Tech (Hybrid - Newark, NJ)

Prudential Ins Co of America; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

PGIM Quantitative Solutions in Newark, NJ seeks an experienced Director of Business Analysis to provide strategic leadership for investment-management platforms and technology initiatives. You will liaise between Investment Management, Trading, Operations, Product Owners, Technology, Risk, and Compliance to translate priorities into actionable requirements.

The role leads a team of analysts, defines governance, and drives scalable solutions across processes, data, and reporting while ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience leading business analysis for investment platforms.
• Strong understanding of the investment management lifecycle, including portfolio management, trading, compliance, operations, accounting, market data, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support the Business Analysis function across investment management and technology platforms, establishing clear expectations, standards, and best practices across the team.
• Strengthen Business Analysis capabilities by sharing investment-domain knowledge, technical expertise, stakeholder management practices, and BA best practices with colleagues.
• Partner with Product Owners and senior business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, define business outcomes, assess priorities, and translate complex needs into actionable technology initiatives.
• Lead the analysis of complex business processes across portfolio management, trading, compliance, investment operations, accounting, data management, and reporting.
• Oversee the development of high-quality business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, process flows, data requirements, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
• Establish strong requirements governance and traceability, ensuring business objectives remain aligned with delivered solutions throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Facilitate discovery sessions, requirements workshops, process reviews, and solution discussions involving business, Product, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and external partners.
• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce manual processes, improve controls, enhance data quality, and increase operational efficiency.
• Assess business impacts, dependencies, risks, and implementation considerations across interconnected investment platforms and workflows.
• Partner with Technology and Architecture teams to ensure proposed solutions address business requirements with scalability, maintainability, data architecture, integration, security, and standards.
• Provide oversight and direction for user acceptance testing, implementation readiness, business validation, and post-production stabilization.
• Support Product Owners with backlog management, prioritization, roadmap development, and refinement of business requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure coordination across concurrent projects and BAU initiatives, identifying resource constraints, cross-project dependencies, delivery risks, and competing priorities.
• Build strong relationships with external vendors and strategic partners supporting investment platforms, data, and business processes.
• Promote continuous improvement across the Business Analysis practice with reusable standards, templates, documentation practices, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Business Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Requirements Governance

Backlog Management

Product Owners liaison

UAT Oversight

Job description

Job Classification:

Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product

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As the Global Asset Management business of Prudential, we're always looking for ways to improve financial services. We're passionate about making a meaningful impact - touching the lives of millions and solving financial challenges in an ever-changing world.

We also believe talent is key to achieving our vision and are intentional about building a culture on respect and collaboration. When you join PGIM, you'll unlock a motivating and impactful career - all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading global asset managers!

If you're not afraid to think differently and challenge the status quo, come and be a part of a dedicated team that's investing in your future by shaping tomorrow today.

At PGIM, You Can!

What you will do

PGIM Quantitative Solutions is seeking an experienced Director, Business Analysis, to provide strategic leadership and oversight of business analysis capabilities supporting our investment and technology platforms. This role will serve as a key liaison between Investment Management, Trading, Operations, Product Owners, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and external partners, ensuring that business priorities are translated into clear, actionable requirements and scalable technology solutions.

The Director will work with a team of Business Analysts responsible for supporting complex investment platforms, business processes, data workflows, and strategic initiatives. The role requires a strong understanding of the investment management lifecycle, including portfolio management, trading, compliance, operations, accounting, market and reference data, and downstream reporting.

Working closely with Product Owners, senior business leaders, engineering teams, and other technology partners, the Director will establish and promote consistent business analysis practices, ensure requirements are well defined and traceable, identify cross-platform dependencies and risks, and help drive initiatives from concept through implementation and production readiness.

Responsibilities Include:

• Support the Business Analysis function across investment management and technology platforms, establishing clear expectations, standards, and best practices across the team.
• Strengthen Business Analysis capabilities by sharing investment-domain knowledge, technical expertise, stakeholder management practices, and BA best practices with colleagues.
• Partner with Product Owners and senior business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, define business outcomes, assess priorities, and translate complex needs into actionable technology initiatives.
• Lead the analysis of complex business processes across portfolio management, trading, compliance, investment operations, accounting, data management, and reporting.
• Oversee the development of high-quality business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, process flows, data requirements, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
• Establish strong requirements governance and traceability, ensuring business objectives remain aligned with delivered solutions throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Facilitate discovery sessions, requirements workshops, process reviews, and solution discussions involving business, Product, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and external partners.
• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce manual processes, improve controls, enhance data quality, and increase operational efficiency.
• Assess business impacts, dependencies, risks, and implementation considerations across interconnected investment platforms and workflows.
• Partner with Technology and Architecture teams to ensure proposed solutions appropriately address business requirements while considering scalability, maintainability, data architecture, integration, security, and enterprise technology standards.
• Provide oversight and direction for user acceptance testing, implementation readiness, business validation, and post-production stabilization.
• Support Product Owners with backlog management, prioritization, roadmap development, and refinement of business requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure effective coordination across concurrent projects and BAU initiatives, proactively identifying resource constraints, cross-project dependencies, delivery risks, and competing priorities.
• Build strong working relationships with external vendors and strategic partners supporting investment platforms, data, and business processes.
• Promote continuous improvement across the Business Analysis practice by establishing reusable standards, templates, documentation practices, and knowledge