Business Analyst, ETF Focused

Role Overview

• Function as a liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring requirements are accurately captured, processes are streamlined, and deliverables are aligned with business objectives
• Facilitate communication, drive efficiency, and help mitigate risks throughout the migration and transformation process
• Analyze and document current-state and future-state business, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement
• Convert business objectives and requirements into clear, actionable specifications for technology teams, ensuring mutual understanding
• Facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) and sign-off of migrated applications and processes, ensuring solutions align with business goals
• Assess and communicate the impact of technology changes on business operations, processes, and roles
• Develop training materials, conduct training sessions, and provide ongoing support to business users during and after migration
• Work with business and technical teams to map source and target data structures, ensuring data integrity during migration and define and execute business-level data validation processes post-migration, collaborating with technology teams to resolve discrepancies
• Proactively identify business risks related to migration, integration, and process changes and implement necessary mitigation strategy
• Gather and analyze feedback from business users to identify areas for process improvement and optimization and document lessons learned and best practices for future migrations and technology transitions

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, or related field
• 3-5+ years’ experience with system migrations, data transitions, or similar transformation projects with demonstratable leadership responsibilities
• Advanced knowledge of and substantiated work within business analysis methodologies (Agile) and industry best practices
• Proficiency in documentation tools (Confluence, DrawIO for process mapping), data analysis tools (Excel, SQL basics, Aladdin? or specific platforms we are targeting), and project management tools (Jira, ServiceNow, etc.)
• Knowledge of the Investment Management/Asset Management industry is a plus; knowledge of the ETF space is preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Proven stakeholder management experience across multiple business units
• Ability to work in fast-paced, changing environments

Tech Stack

• ServiceNow
• SQL

Benefits

• Aon’s Benefit Index ® , Nomura’s benefits rank #1 amongst our competitors
• Health insurance
• 401(k) eligibility
• Various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave