Business Analyst

GRA and GRA Technology Global Risk and Analysis is a unit of client Investment Management responsible for measuring, controlling, and reporting investment risks. GRA Technology works as a GRA partner to provide support for its day-to-day business activities, application enhancements, and develop new applications for new business initiatives. GRA Technology adopts Agile methodology. It has presence in the US and Asia, supporting the business around the clock. Roles and Responsibilities •Work closely with both risk and attribution business lines of GRA to understand user feature requests and convert business features into technical requirements •Devise business test cases to ensure app development satisfies Acceptance Criteria established in Agile stories •Rapidly develop Investment Management data landscape expertise to provide support to both risk and attribution squads •Perform ad-hoc data analyses to troubleshoot data quality issues and liaise with the Data Analytics teams to perform data research and correction if needed •Possibility to spend 25% of time to function as Scrum Master to support an Agile squad and its Agile ceremonies Required Skills •7 to 10 years of working experience in the asset management business •Broad and specific understanding of security instruments, including equity, fixed-income, currencies, options, total return swaps, and interest rate swaps •Broad and specific understanding of risk measures and attribution fundamentals of investment portfolios •Broad and specific understanding of performance calculations and GIPS reporting •Strong analytical skills in performing database queries on Snowflake, DB2, or SQL server databases with expert SQL language skills •Scrum Master training in supporting Agile squad and managing squad ceremonies Preferred Skills •Excellent communication skills that enable the candidate to speak to both business users and developers alike in situation-appropriate languages •A strong mathematical background or understanding of financial quantitative calculations •Ability to use Python or other scripting languages to conduct value-added data analyses or construct app prototypes. Show more Show less