Business Analyst - Investment Fund

A well-established investment fund managing over $100 billion in AUM is seeking a Business Analyst to support architecture projects supporting front and middle-office functionality for public/private markets. This person will build/maintain the processes utilized by systems engineers and consultants.

This role has deep investment industry knowledge to allow for effective design, modeling, analysis, system implementation and testing.

Salary: Up to 115k base 15% bonus

Location: Madison, WI (3 days/week for residents within 1 hour, 1 day/week otherwise)

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate cross-functionally to research and implement new solutions according to the business needs
• Analyze Investment Management, Operations, and Technology teams’ needs, to ensure design, development, or deployment of software.
• Serve as the architect for the investment management applications/systems including: test plans, scenarios, and procedures for new software implementation
• Identify gaps and risks in systems architecture, design, and projects. Make recommendations to business and Technology management minimizing these gaps/risks.
• Lead, facilitate, and coordinate the software or solution architecture and design (including, where applicable, the code needed) of solutions (e.g., applications and systems).
• Implement software testing, using either manual or automated programs and exploratory testing, and evaluate results, including documenting and reporting defects or problems with software and oversee future maintenance and upgrades

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree required with a preference focus within Information Systems, Computer Science or Finance.
• 2 years of investment management industry experience
• Proficiency with SQL
• Substantial knowledge of investment industry strategies, processes, and technologies
• Ability to objectively influence successful outcomes and work cross-functionally.
• Ability to envision solutions, communicate those solutions and help form tangible outputs from those conceptual solutions.
• Detailed familiarity with common investment practices and securities.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technology specifications and design systems to meet the needs of the business.