Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities 

• Engage with business users to understand data issues and impact
• Interpret investment data discrepancies (trades, securities, portfolios)
• Support prioritization and SLA alignment
• Translate business problems into technical investigation inputs
• Validate outputs and ensure business acceptance
• Provide domain guidance to data analysts
• Support complex issue resolution and escalation discussions.
• Work closely with L3 teams (Data Engineering, Platform)
• Identify patterns and recurring issues
• Mentor junior analysts
• Perform triage and categorization of incoming tickets
• Conduct data validation and analysis across systems (Snowflake, Aladdin , EDM  and reporting platforms)
• Investigation:
• Missing transactions
• Data mismatches
• Data quality rule violations
• Escalate medium/complex issues with proper context
• Track tickets through end-to-end lifecycle
• Maintain documentation and runbooks 

Ideal Candidate Profile 

• 12+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst    
• 5–7 years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably within the Investment domain experience.
• Strong knowledge of investment domain with strong understanding of trade lifecycle (trade → processing → reporting)
• Knowledge of securities & identifiers (CUSIP, ISIN, ratings, attributes)
• Familiarity with portfolio/position concepts and aggregation logic
• Understanding of key financial metrics (yield, spread, duration, price, market value, performance, Profit/Loss)
• Ability to perform data reconciliation across systems (Aladdin, Snowflake, reports)
• Awareness of investment data flows and reporting impact on business users
•  Ability to interpret financial data and reports
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working with data teams / analytics teams