Principal Business Analyst – COP & GCN

Job Description

Job title: Principal Business Analyst – COP & GCN

Company: Schroders

Job description: Who we’re looking for

In this role, you will be at the heart of gathering and refining business requirements. You’ll be helping to define technology solutions across Client Service technology and apply your critical thinking to problems faced by the business, forming the bridge between business stakeholders and software delivery teams. In addition, you will foster and facilitate team processes that keep the team focussed, well organised and motivated to continuously improve.

About Schroders

We’re a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we’ve been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn’t change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

Technology at Schroders

There’s a huge amount of change going on at Schroders. Technology’s shaping our business more and more, so there are many opportunities waiting to be grabbed. And because we’re a big financial player, we can put hefty backing behind good ideas.

We’re a serious business – we have enormous responsibilities to our clients and shareholders. But just because we’re suited and booted, that doesn’t make us stuffy; our tech teams are friendlier and more informal than you might expect.

The base

We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We’re close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly.

The team

The Client Service technology team within Client Group is made up of several different application teams, with focuses ranging from .Net / C# applications to Salesforce development. The wider team supports applications that cater to client reporting, facilitating client trades, capturing and responding to client queries, and mastering client data. This role will focus on supporting the capability team responsible for the Global Client Notifications application and the Client Operational Platforms and Data team which is responsible for the data mastering applications. You’ll work with an enthusiastic team, mainly located in London (with a few consultant partners located in Poland) that have a strong focus on creating a collaborative and fun working environment whilst delivering high quality solutions to business problems.

What you’ll do

As the Principal Business Analyst in the team, you will be accountable for:

• Gathering stakeholder requests and refining them with the team, to create detailed and well understood backlog items
• Providing written and data-based analysis and inputting ideas into how we function as a team to ensure we drive informed business decisions
• Facilitating some agile ceremonies (e.g. Planning and Refinement)
• User acceptance testing of the stakeholder requested functionality.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

• Ability to deal credibly with both business staff and technical users at all levels of the organisation, with strong senior stakeholder management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A track record in converting complex business requirements into development stories taking into account processes and technical specifications
• An understanding of any of the following industries: Asset Management, Wealth Management, Pensions & Insurance or Asset Management
• An understanding of the importance of Data Governance.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help

• An understanding of software development and architecture principles
• Strong understanding and experience of working within a data focused organisation
• Experience of working using the Agile Methodology.

What you’ll be like

• Inspiring and collaborative with all those you work with
• Capable of remaining positive when under pressure
• Friendly, approachable, enjoys working with people from a variety of backgrounds
• Communicates with tact and sensitivity, mindful of how information may be received.
• Ensures everyone is informed and relevant parties consulted
• Comfortable facilitating and communicating using both business and technology terms.
• Able to keep a potentially diverse set of participants engaged
• Holds themselves accountable, demonstrates integrity and deals fairly with everyone
• Lean-agile mindset: focusses on sustainable flow of value, making space for continuous improvement, building in quality, test hypothesis and assumptions as early as possible.

We recognise potential, whoever you are

Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics.

Expected salary:

Location: United Kingdom

Job date: Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:24:41 GMT

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