Lead Business Analyst - Investment Accounting / Middle Office - Business Services - # 3

State Street Corp; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 115,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K plan with company match

Insurance coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Incentive compensation

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Vice President, Product Management to shape platform strategy for the Investment Accounting platform. The role leads requirements, solution design, and delivery of product enhancements to meet roadmap metrics, collaborating with Product, Technology, Operations, and Client teams.

Ideal candidate has deep Investment Accounting domain knowledge, strong product management and SDLC experience, and the ability to drive cross-functional delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or information systems.
• 15+ years in financial services with product management experience.
• Proven product management, business analysis, or operations experience in product development.
• Investment Accounting subject matter expertise in accounting, security valuation, cash management, and corporate actions/income.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, decision-making and negotiation skills.
• Ability to influence and collaborate across multiple organizations.
• Organized with the demonstrated ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Competencies: deep domain expertise, Agile/SDLC, teamwork and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead requirement definition and solution design for strategic product development initiatives within the Investment Accounting platform.
• Ensure requirements/design solutions are well thought out and end-to-end documented.
• Gain consensus with stakeholders across Product, IT, Operations, and Client teams.
• Drive delivery of product enhancements through the development lifecycle to meet timeline/cost commitments.
• Apply strong business judgment to surface impediments and provide practical options to resolve.
• Use client requests and market trend analysis to contribute to the strategic Product roadmap.
• Assist with adoption of AI processes to improve product management functions and delivery.

Skills

Product management

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Negotiation

Agile/SDLC

Organizational skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or information systems

Job description

The Vice President, Product Management role is responsible for helping to define platform strategy, conducting business & market trend analysis, managing requirement definition & solution design processes, and ensuring successful delivery/rollout of product enhancements to meet strategic product roadmap metrics for the Investment Accounting platform.

What we are looking for

Alpha Services Product team is looking to hire a lead Business Analyst to help define product strategy deliverables, design strategic end-to-end solutions, lead delivery of project requirements through the software development lifecycle and assist with implementing new project enhancements to meet our Investment Accounting strategic platform objectives. This includes working with key stakeholders across Product, Technology, Operations, and Client teams to bring new product enhancements/services into a client ready state.

Why this job is important to us

State Street Alpha brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. We partner with clients to optimize their operations, data, and technology footprint by leveraging the Alpha Platform and outsourced Alpha Services. The Alpha Services team is looking for qualified individuals with strong experience to lead product initiatives within the Investment Accounting platform. The successful candidate will have deep product/service domain knowledge in Investment Accounting/IBOR platforms, a strong background in requirements definition & solution design, and managing project delivery through the development lifecycle.

What you are responsible for

1. 1) Manage and lead requirement definition and solution design for strategic product development initiatives within the Investment Accounting platform.
2. 2) Ensure requirements/design solutions are well thought out from a component & end-to-end solution and are effectively documented.
3. 3) Gain consensus with key stakeholders across Product, IT, Operations, and Client teams for end-to-end solution design/requirements.
4. 4) Drive the delivery of product enhancements throughout the development lifecycle to meet timeline/cost commitments.
5. 5) Apply strong business judgment to surface impediments/issues and provide practical, high impact options to resolve.
6. 6) Utilize client requests, partner feedback, and market trend analysis to contribute to the strategic Product roadmap.
7. 7) Assist with adoption of AI processes to help improve product management functions and delivery.

Education and Preferred Qualifications

1. 1) Minimum of a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or information systems.
2. 2) Minimum 15-years financial services experience including practical application in product management and development.
3. 3) Demonstrated strong product management, business analysis, or relevant operations experience as part of product development initiatives.
4. 4) Have proven Investment Accounting subject matter expertise in one or more of the following disciplines: accounting, security valuation, cash management, and corporate actions/income.
5. 5) Comfortable presenting to and interacting with key stakeholders including clients.
6. 6) Proven strong communication, interpersonal, decision-making and negotiation skills.
7. 7) Ability to influence and work collaboratively across multiple organizations and stakeholders to reach common goals.
8. 8) Organized with the demonstrated ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
9. 9) Competencies required: deep domain expertise, strong business analysis skills, analytical/problem solving skills, business/industry knowledge, practical experience with Agile/SDLC development, demonstrated teamwork and leadership, ownership mindset, strong written and verbal skills.

Salary Range

$115,000 - $205,000 Annual

Employee Benefits

• our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
• insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
• paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
• access to our Employee Assistance Program
• incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
• and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans

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