Senior Business Analyst Front Office CFA
Apply NowCompany: CERES Group
Location: Boston, MA 02115
Description:
We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to support our front-office business unit. This is an exceptional opportunity to help build our future state business architecture to support and expand the capabilities. The Senior Business Analyst reports to a Business Architect and is a member of the Information Technology team.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
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Responsibilities:
- Function as a liaison between multiple groups: Portfolio Management, Trading, Operations, and Information Technology
- Assist with defining the future state business models to strategically enable the long/short portfolio management team to gain efficiencies
- Define business workflows to support asset classes such as Equities, ETFs, Futures, Options, Structured Notes, FX, Total Return Swaps, Interest Rates Swaps, and Volatility Swaps
- Manage the delivery of order management systems and integrate the system master and position data
- Work with the project team to perform bi-directional integration with security master, trading, and accounting systems
- Work with the team to design appropriate data models for strategic data stores in the area of Account Master, Broker/Custodian Master, and Position Master
- Perform data analysis, define data governance and quality checks, and define process controls
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in economics, finance, statistics, mathematics, computer science or a related field; master's degree or CFA preferred
- At least 5+ years of experience in the asset management business, ideally with a buy-side multi-asset focus
- Recent experience managing and implementing multi-asset class front office solutions with the following security types: Equities, ETFs, Futures, Options, Structured Notes, FX, Total Return Swaps, Interest Rates Swaps, and Volatility Swaps
- Experience implementing and integrating middle and back office functions with accounting systems/providers and for Total Return Performance and GIPS Composite information
- Experience delivering software as part of an Agile delivery team
- Strong knowledge of enterprise data management and business process modeling
- Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills; Strong written and verbal communications skills
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