Lead Investment Accounting BA – Strategy & Delivery

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

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Insurance coverage including health

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Incentive compensation

Job summary

State Street Alpha is seeking a Vice President, Product Management to define platform strategy, analyze market trends, and drive end-to-end solution delivery for the Investment Accounting platform. You will work with Product, Technology, Operations and Client teams to bring enhancements to a client-ready state.

This role focuses on requirements definition, solution design, and delivery leadership, with strong domain knowledge in Investment Accounting and related processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or information systems.
• Minimum 15-years financial services experience including practical application in product management and development.
• Demonstrated strong product management, business analysis, or relevant operations experience as part of product development initiatives.
• Have proven Investment Accounting subject matter expertise in one or more of the following disciplines: accounting, security valuation, cash management, and corporate actions/income.
• Comfortable presenting to and interacting with key stakeholders including clients.
• Proven strong communication, interpersonal, decision-making and negotiation skills.
• Ability to influence and work collaboratively across multiple organizations and stakeholders to reach common goals.
• Organized with the demonstrated ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• 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.

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 from a component & end-to-end solution and are effectively documented.
• Gain consensus with key stakeholders across Product, IT, Operations, and Client teams for end-to-end solution design/requirements.
• Drive the delivery of product enhancements throughout the development lifecycle to meet timeline/cost commitments.
• Apply strong business judgment to surface impediments/issues and provide practical, high impact options to resolve.
• Utilize client requests, partner feedback, and market trend analysis to contribute to the strategic Product roadmap.
• Assist with adoption of AI processes to help improve product management functions and delivery.

Skills

Requirement definition

Solution design

Product management

Stakeholder collaboration

Delivery leadership

AI adoption

Education

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

Job description

State Street Alpha is seeking a Vice President, Product Management to define platform strategy, analyze market trends, and drive end-to-end solution delivery for the Investment Accounting platform. You will work with Product, Technology, Operations and Client teams to bring enhancements to a client-ready state.

This role focuses on requirements definition, solution design, and delivery leadership, with strong domain knowledge in Investment Accounting and related processes.