What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Systems Analyst position at The TCW Group, Inc.?
Position Summary
The Senior Business Systems Analyst develops and maintains stakeholder relationships with the Accounting, Performance & Attribution workstreams and Alternative Investments user groups to identify needs, analyze business processes, evaluate and recommend strategic solutions that are vendor platform-enabled or custom-developed. The candidate will manage user expectations, engage in multiple initiatives, perform project tasks, track issues, and ensure timely deliverables.
This role is within the Engineering Solutions group under the Portfolio Management Vendor Platform team. It is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team and contribute to the success of existing and new business initiatives within a well-established firm with a proven track record.
The role provides opportunities to collaborate cross-functionally with business heads, portfolio managers, senior leaders. It will also serve as a liaison between the user community and the software development team to drive solutions, define requirements, test outputs and ensure high quality solutions delivered to the business. We are seeking a candidate that has an analytical approach to problem-solving, strong financial, accounting, performance return acumen, and an understanding of private equity investment structures, asset-backed finance and insurance business models are highly preferred. Working knowledge of vendor Portfolio Management and Accounting platforms vendor applications such as Aladdin Accounting & Performance, Allvue, Clearwater, Geneva, eFront, SalesForce, CRD are highly sought after requirements.
Essential Duties
- Analyze business needs, participate in vendor solution evaluations, and provide custom solution design and requirements, (may include stakeholder interviews, business process analysis, and review of existing documentation).
- Interact with various departments in the firm including investment teams, corporate management, HR, Legal, Operations, and Engineering Solutions
- Coordinate with the technology team to work on automation and process improvement efforts
- Provide technical expertise and/or direct development activities
- Perform thorough quality assurance testing on new and enhanced features
- Provide production support to the user community
- Complete ad-hoc projects as needed
Required Qualifications
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate with senior leaders (including management and Portfolio Managers) and convey complex business concepts effectively
- Experience in private equity business lifecycle, processes, functional and data requirements
- Basic Business Intelligence, Report Development, and / or Relational Database Experience (MSSQL)
- Minimum of seven years of successful project management and business analysis experience
- Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Computer Science, Business Administration, Finance or related disciplines
Professional Skills Qualifications
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment, with a strong client service mentality, as well as a willingness to participate and help others
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and rigorous work environment; demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands and meet deadlines
- Strong initiative and ownership of responsibilities – must demonstrate a proactive, positive attitude toward given tasks
- Ability to execute and deliver on project tasks with limited resources
- Highly analytical with strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent attention to detail and dedication to accuracy, quality, and integrity
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