Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Boston MA

Duration: / Term: Fulltime

Experience Desired: 12 Years

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Business Data Analyst who will act as the bridge between business stakeholders and the data support team bringing deep investment domain expertise to interpret and prioritize data quality issues.

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

Key Skills:

Business Analyst Investment domain trade lifecycle securities & identifiers financial metrics data reconciliation