Associate Director - Business Analyst

About The Opportunity
Job Type: Permanent
Application Deadline: 30 April 2024

Title Associate Director - Business Analyst
Department Investment Solutions and Services Delivery
Location India
Reports To Programme Director - ISS Delivery
Level 7
We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our ISS Delivery team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.
About Your Team
ISS Tech team provides systems development, implementation, and support services for Fidelity International’s Global Investment Management division. We support Fund Managers, Research Analysts and Traders in all of Fidelity International’s locations. You will be joining a global technology delivery team spanned across China, Hong Kong, India, and United Kingdom, providing fit for purpose and scalable technology solutions to Global Investment Research and Portfolio Management team across all asset classes.
About Your Role
Investment Services and Solutions (ISS) is one of the main business pillars and investment areas within Fidelity. It is going through a phase of the rapid and substantial transformation of its business model as well as the Technology estate.
A key component of the transformation is our front office tooling. We are partnering with a fintech company to co-develop their Investment Management System for our next generation cross asset portfolio construction and order generation toolkit. As a Business Analyst within the ISS Delivery team, you will play a key role working with senior Business leaders, Architects and engineers within Fidelity International to facilitate and lead the definition of viable business outcomes and solution requirements to support Fidelity’s Investment management aspirations.
About You

You will be leading a number of analysis tasks within the portfolio management lifecycle with the vision to complete the end-to-end delivery for our ISS’s mutli year Programme.
You will define and develop key user stories, PM workflows, operating models and data flows through the investment management and operational lifecycle. You may also be required to lead and develop other business analysts on the delivery providing leadership, coaching and mentoring when needed. You will display exemplary leadership behaviours aligned to the Fidelity values.
You will ensure the core business goals are understood and will help shape large, high risk and complex initiatives. You will work collaboratively with solution architects, UX designers, product owners and the delivery teams in order to ensure that solutions address the requirements of the business.
The successful candidate will have experience of working in an Agile environment using Agile tools and techniques, behaviour driven development (BDD) as well as business analysis tools and techniques. You will have experience working with full scale Scrum or Kanban, and be a competent user of Jira and Confluence.
You will be required to effectively influence and assist key stakeholders, support multiple change initiatives and oversee and drive communication streams within the programme. A willingness to take on new challenges, collaborate and share knowledge freely with colleagues globally is also critical to success.
This role will face off to senior stakeholder in the organisation so the successful candidate will therefore be personable, articulate and have strong facilitation skills to help take initiatives forward.
Your Key Accountabilities

• Lead the detailed analysis into the target state outcomes identifying key requirements, new functional and non-functional requirements to support Fidelity’s Investment Management aspirations.
• Provide conceptual solutions to often complicated business problems / needs and make recommendations for preferred solutions, with consideration of associated risks, cost and timescales
• Lead requirements gathering and solutions through workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement
• To write effective user stories that detail changes to the product/solution
• To work with design, development and testing teams on the release of the product
• To ensure that regulatory criteria is met through the design process
• Detail the business benefits and ensure these are traced through and tracked and realised by the business
• Work with senior management and executives to facilitate the sign off / agreement of solutions and recommendations via presentations/demos and workshops/meetings
• Liaise with the business and external stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of dependencies, deliverables and issues
• Undertake detailed analysis and re-engineering of processes related to the Investment management asset class processes
• Share knowledge and experience of the Investment Management processes and procedures
  

Your Skills And Experience

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• Strong analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills
• Front Office experience - Deep cross asset class knowledge (i.e. EQ/ FI / MA) including OTCs essential.
• OMS/PMS - Upgrades and/or Implementations (Aladdin, CRD, ThinkFolio or similar) essential.
• Experience working with key Front Office users: Portfolio Managers, Traders, CIOs, Portfolio Construction & Risk.
• Experience of integrating multiple vendor products beneficial
• Experience of working with large-scale data projects
• Experience of Investment Risk beneficial
• Experience of Systematic Investing / Optimisation processes beneficial
• Experience in the End-to-end order lifecycle including Compliance and Trading beneficial
• Experienced in implementing model-based investing solutions
• Exposure in risk analytics, performance, attribution calculation and their usage/impact in the investment management lifecycle
• Ability to explain complex technical and functional requirement in a clear and concise way
• Familiar with Agile development methodology, experienced with sportify model is a plus
• Experience of working in a global team
• Ability to work and learn quickly in a high performing culture, under pressure and with time-sensitive deadlines
  

Feel rewarded
For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.
For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.