Sr Product Analysis and Design Specialist

The Team:

Platforms include post-trade securities, corporate actions processing and Proxy solutions providing single platform trade flow management and custody and investment accounting solution across business lines and geographies. Also, providing end-to-end automation of corporate actions and income processing, from announcement capture and validation, to complete downstream processing. Other supporting solutions include web-based self-service platform that enables front-office, middle-office and end-customer users to seamlessly interact with their post-trade environment.A self-service business analytics application sitting on top of these, that enables operations to seamlessly interact with data.
From the reference data side, there is Managed Corporate Actions(MCA) service which is a best-in-class centralized source of validated corporate action announcements for nearly three million equities, fixed income, and structured finance securities across global markets. MCA services customers as a single source that streamlines operations for the collection, validation and dissemination of corporate actions. It also provides unlimited access to corporate action data and allows customers to view full details in real time, including event-level data, dates, options, terms and conditions and restrictions.

As an international team of industry experts we architect and deliver intelligent post-trade software applications to the capital markets globally. We have a proven history transforming business models for the worlds premier financial institutions, enabling them to enter new markets, reduce risk, increase efficiency, scalability and improve service standards.

We do this by seamlessly managing the huge volume and complex processing of all core post-trade services. These include asset servicing, securities and cash processing, and post trade analytics.

The Business Analyst role is one of the most important roles in any client implementation. S&P Global has a requirement for an experienced Business Analyst who can further enhance and evolve the post trade securities and corporate actions suite of products, consult and lead client onboarding to our platforms seamlessly.

The Impact:

Business Analyst works with various stakeholders involved in the project, works closely with the Product Managers and act as the SPOC for client, development and Quality teams to deliver product enhancements. Business Analyst is responsible to finalize scope, identifying gaps, defining client requirements as well as assisting the client in definition of their test suites & acceptance criteria.

The candidate should be able to understand the existing business process of a client and how to define target state operational process onto the platform, based on which he/she then design and implement the most optimal product configuration for the client.

The role requires the candidate to have excellent management skills, written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational coordination skills, and strong analysis skills. The successful candidate should be process oriented and have a good understanding of product development lifecycle. The candidate should be comfortable in a fast-paced environment and be flexible to adapt to changes, leading multiple projects, processes

Whats in it for you:

This position offers a great opportunity for growth within the company while learning from industry experts in post-trade space. There is also the potential opportunity for Business Analyst to work on site with clients in locations worldwide.

Responsibilities:

Business Analysis will be the core focus of the job with certain elements of product management.

• Work with product leads to understand product requirements and become an SME for a specific area
• Work closely with product & technology teams to analyze and design functional enhancements.
• Elicit requirements, identify solutions & deliver well defined functional specification documents.
• Ensure requirements are communicated correctly to development and testing teams
• Understands the underlying business, implementation & product usage of assigned client/s.
• Keep up to date with new features and functionality enhancements in the applications being supported
• Delivery focused with good time management and personal organizational skills.
• Ability to build & maintain strong relationships with all internal & external client stakeholders.
• Work with the client to define the most optimal future state operational process and related product configuration
• Provide onsite product consultancy and assist the client with acceptance criteria gathering and support throughout the project life-cycle
• Open to travel for work

What Were Looking For:

Education and experience

• Bachelors degree in business or technology
• Relevant experience of 8+ years
• Prior experience in Capital Markets, Post Trade automation,Corporate Actions preferred
• Strong Analytical skills, working knowledge of SQL
• Ability to work independently and in a team, proactive, able to lead multiple streams
• Understanding and experience of the Agile software development process and overall project life cycle.
• Enthusiasm for Agile process and new technologies and their potential to make an impact
• Experience in issue trouble shooting
• Working experience in customer facing role would be preferred
• Working knowledge of change management process would be preferred

Personal impact

• Passionate about our business
• Sound business and analytical skills
• Significant customer service focus
• Attention to detail.
• Self-motivated, proactive work ethic
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
• A proven ability to work effectively as part of a team