About the position
State Street’s Alpha Services Strategy, Solutioning and Product Team is looking for an Alpha Product and Strategy-Transaction Lifecycle Management, Vice President. This qualified individual will develop and deliver product, business solutions and strategy aligned with our Alpha Transaction Lifecycle Management vision. This leader will focus on driving front, middle and back-office service innovations that support and streamline end-to-end integration, servicing and interoperability for our Alpha clients, across our Transaction Management product suite. State Street Alpha brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. We partner with clients to optimize their operations, data, and technology footprint by leveraging the Alpha Platform and outsourced Alpha Services. The successful candidate must be skilled in analyzing our complex business service flows across front, middle, and back office operating models for our Alpha Clients, with focus on post-trade execution lifecycle product and services. They will also be driving the strategic solution design, business architecture, and business solutions/services, whilst driving program/project execution and reporting.
Responsibilities
- Establish strong partnerships with project sponsors and stakeholders in Operations, Technology and other product teams within State Street to influence and coordinate cross-functional business solutions and products, in support of client and business goals.
- Act as liaison between business and technology teams to support product demand opportunities as part of the Transaction Management product strategy and development.
- Drive analysis, design and delivery of transactional data and processing platform using Agile practices and processes, with a focus of establishing continuous delivery, culture, and process.
- Create detailed documentation of business requirements, process flows, and project deliverables.
- Gather business/system requirements by facilitating user/client meetings and interviewing key stakeholders.
- Participate in special projects, e.g., conducting research, collecting, and providing requested data.
Requirements
- BA/BS degree in a business including Finance, Economics, Engineering or Computer Science.
- Minimum 7 to 10 years’ experience as a business analyst or related experience, requirements gathering, design, and development of enterprise application systems.
- Strong knowledge of existing State Street organizational constructs and teams required, in addition to deep business acumen across middle and back-office systems, functions and services supported at State Street.
- Understanding of Alpha TLM business systems & financial industry to support projects through their life cycle, with the emphasis on the analysis stage.
- Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to communicate, and collaborate across business and technical teams.
- Excellent time management and organization skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
- Experience with writing features and requirements that align with deliverable Product Analyst experience using Agile Methodologies, writing Stories, etc.
- Experience with detailed mapping and transaction transformation requirements.
- Working knowledge of Securities, FX and Cash trade processing, SWIFT messaging, SMPG practices; knowledge of complex instruments such as Repo, Derivatives a plus.
Benefits
- Tools to help balance professional and personal life.
- Paid volunteer days.
- Access to employee networks that help you stay connected.
