State Street Corporation is Looking for Principal Business AnalystEnterprise Risk Technology Assistant Vice President State Street Global Advisors Full Time

Job description:
This role will be part of our Risk IT team at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA). The role will be on the information technology team partnering with the risk analysts to continue to enhance SSGA’s Risk Technology Platform. The successful candidate will have strong data analysis skills, can build partnerships, foster close collaboration and work hand in hand with both business and technology teams. The candidate must possess an inherent understanding of technologies, relationships between technology, data, operations, and business areas to accomplish speed to market technology solutions.
Key responsibilities:
As a member of the this team, the candidate will be responsible for:

• A self-starter with excellent organizational, time and relationship management skills.
• Very detail oriented with ability to work with both Developers and Business users.
• Partner with multiple stakeholders to understand and document investment risk methodologies.
• Understand and improve current architecture of data quality systems (inputs, output, general design, tests, dependencies, criteria for success, etc.)
• Proficient in SQL to conduct detailed data analysis on Risk Analytics, Holdings, Fund Flows, and Market Data.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across various risk functions to understand the data sources and operational processes, and data dependencies.
• Document and clearly communicate the business and system specifications; review with business stakeholders and obtain approval for developments.
• Knowledge-share the business specifications with development team; facilitate the technical design; and create the system specifications and agile stories.
• Lead story grooming, provide subsequent clarifications, and approve QA test cases.
• Facilitate project meetings, proactively identify and remove impediments, escalate issues, and regularly report the status to the business group.
• Maintain project artifacts, document lessons learned, and continuously refine and streamline the framework to implement technology solutions.
• Work with stakeholders to prioritize and track technology initiatives and corresponding regulatory reporting requirements.

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in mathematics/ Statistics/ Computer Science / Information Technology from reputed colleges.
• 12+ years of hands-on experience as a business analyst implementing technology solutions for asset management firms.
• Good understanding of capital markets, concepts and the data associated with it.
• 5+ years of experience in dealing with market data from vendors such as Thomson Reuters(Refinitiv), MSCI, FACTSET, Bloomberg and S&P etc.
• Experience with multi-asset class proprietary / vended risk analytics engines (e.g., FactSet PA, Bloomberg PORT+, Barrone, Axioma) is preferable.
• 8+ years of experience in experience in SQL Programming, basic database concepts.
• Experience in any dashboarding tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, Qlikview etc. is preferable.
• Proven track record as a seasoned business analyst driving large scale projects applying relevant functional and technical expertise.
• Candidates with FRM certifications will have additional advantage.

Note: The above cited duties and responsibilities describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to the job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that an incumbent may be expected or asked to perform.

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