Director of Investment Platforms & Business Analysis

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

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