Product Analyst (FY25 B7)

About Factset
FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 162,000 of investment professionals around the world, providing instant anytime, anywhere access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.
For over 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 37 offices in 20 countries, were all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and were proud that 90% of clients who use FactSet continue to use it, year after year.
PROCESS BRIEF/ SUB-PROCESS BRIEF
FactSets Product Development department is responsible for implementing new products and enhancing existing ones. The mission of the department is to deliver simple, world-class solutions by collaborating with clients to understand their needs, with cross-functional project teams to share those insights, and with Sales to bring our solutions to market.
The Analytics group develops applications and solutions which facilitate tasks for portfolio managers, researchers, risk analysts, and performance analysts. Group members have strong financial backgrounds and understand the workflow of each of these investment professional types.
Job Responsibilities

• Be the first line of defense to answer questions related to Portfolio Analytics related products from sales/consulting and reconciliation team
• Identify and respond to client demand for new initiatives and enhancements to analytics solutions
• Participate in product focused rotations designed to teach the portfolio management process and provide exposure to multiple aspects of the Portfolio Analysis application
• Develop requirements specifications from business requirements and help engineering/QA to understand the same.
• Work with the design team to develop Portfolio analytics related applications features
  
• Work with engineers to fix bugs, test enhancements, and manage releases and client migrations
• Work with Knowledge Management team to help write documentation as well as internal and external client communications
• Work with the Quality Assurance team to help ensure the ongoing quality of the Portfolio Analysis products
• Actively manage and share ideas to improve work processes and output
  

Eligibility Criteria Skills Required, Education & Experiences

• Undergraduate (Bachelors) degree in Math/ Science/Statistics/ Engineering/ Finance or related field
• MBA Finance or masters degree in some combination Mathematics/Statistics/Finance
• 0-6 years of experience dealing with portfolio analysis/equity analysis/fixed income analysis at both conceptual and application level
• Articulate communicator, with excellent language skills both oral and written
• Has good understanding of financial clients needs and workflows

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Get Hired
• Liaise effectively (both written and oral) with engineers and data providers
• Ability to work independently and within a group
• Interest in learning modern technologies/knowledge
• Basic understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) & PDLC (Product Development Life Cycle)
• Prominent level of motivation
• Proficiency with Excel
• Open for flexi hours as per business need
  

Career Progression Path:

• Product Analyst Senior Product Analyst Associate Product Specialist Product Specialist Senior Product specialist Associate Product Manager Product Manager Senior Product Manager
  

Interview Process
Multiple rounds of interviews