Lead, Business & Product Analysis

Job description

About the Role: Grade Level (for internal use): 12The Team:  Our platforms include post-trade securities, corporate actions processing and Proxy solutions delivering a unified trade flow management and custody and investment accounting solution across business lines and geographies. We also enable end-to-end automation for corporate actions and income processing, from announcement capture and validation through full downstream processing. Supporting solutions include web-based self-service platform that enables front-office, middle-office and end-clients to seamlessly interact with their post-trade environment. A self-service business analytics application sitting on top of these platforms, enabling operations teams to interact with data effortlessly.  From the reference data perspective, our Managed Corporate Actions (MCA) service is a best-in-class centralized source of validated corporate action announcements for nearly three million equities, fixed income, and structured finance securities across global markets. MCA services customers as a single source that streamlines operations for the collection, validation and dissemination of corporate actions. It also provides unlimited access to corporate action data and allows customers to view full details in real time, including event-level data, dates, options, terms and conditions and restrictions.  As a global team of industry specialists, we architect and deliver intelligent post-trade software solutions to capital markets worldwide. We have a proven track record of transforming business models for the world’s premier financial institutions, enabling them to enter new markets, reduce risk, increase efficiency, scalability and improve service standards.  We achieve this by seamlessly managing the huge volume and complex processing across core post-trade services including asset servicing, securities and cash processing, and post trade analytics.  The Business Analyst role is among the most critical roles in any client implementation. S&P Global is seeking an experienced Business Analyst who can further enhance and evolve our post trade securities and corporate actions suite, while also consulting and leading client onboarding onto our platforms smoothly and effectively.    The Impact:   The Business Analyst partners with various stakeholders involved in the project, works closely with the Product Managers and serves as the single point of contact (SPOC) for the client, development, and Quality teams to drive product enhancements to delivery.  The Business Analyst is responsible to finalize scope, identifying gaps, defining client requirements, and assisting client in definition of their test suites & acceptance criteria. The candidate should be able to understand the existing business process of a client and how to define target state operational process onto the platform, based on which he/she then designs and implement the most optimal product configuration for the client.  The role requires the candidate to have excellent management capability, excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational / coordination skills, and analysis skills. The successful candidate will be highly process oriented with a sound understanding of product development lifecycle. The candidate must be comfortable in a fast-paced environment, adaptable to change, and capable of leading multiple projects and workstreams concurrently.    What’s in it for you: The position offers a great opportunity for growth within the company while learning from industry experts in post-trade space. There is also the potential opportunity for Business Analyst to work on site with clients in locations worldwide.    Responsibilities:  Business Analysis will be the core focus of the job with certain elements of product management.  • Partner with product leads to understand product requirements and become an SME for designated functional area. • Collaborate with product and technology teams to analyze requirements and design functional enhancements.  • Lead requirements elicitation, propose solutions, and produce clear, well-structured functional specification documents.  • Ensure requirements are communicated correctly to development and testing teams. • Understands the underlying business, implementation & product usage of assigned client/s.  • Stay current on new features, releases, and functional enhancements across supported applications. • Maintain a delivery mindse