Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst, Interfaces

Job Description What we are looking forWe are seeking a Senior Business Analyst responsible for bridging business, product, and technology teams to deliver innovative solutions across Charles River Investment Management System (IMS) and related front, middle, and back-office workflows. This role plays a critical part in defining product capabilities, gathering and documenting requirements, validating functionality, and ensuring the successful delivery of solutions that meet client and business needs.

The Senior Business Analyst will become a subject matter expert in Charles River products and investment workflows, partnering closely with clients, product managers, engineers, quality assurance, and implementation teams throughout the software development lifecycle. Working within a feature-focused Agile team, they will leverage both financial industry expertise and technical knowledge to analyze complex business processes, define functional requirements, troubleshoot issues, and drive enhancements that improve the overall client experience.

This role requires a combination of strong analytical skills, financial market knowledge, technical aptitude, and the ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities, and independently driving initiatives from concept through delivery.

Why this job is important to us Charles River Development 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. Our diverse team of highly skilled technologists and professionals are agile thinkers and problem solvers, committed to our end users and engineering excellence. We use mentorship and teamwork to impact and drive our business forward every day.

By joining the Charles River Product Development team, you will work at the intersection of financial technology and investment management, helping shape products that power some of the world's largest asset managers, asset owners, and financial institutions. You will collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions that streamline investment operations, improve data accuracy, and enable better investment decisions.

At Charles River Development (CRD), we've been creating some of the most insightful and sophisticated investment management technologies since 1997. Through our commitment to product quality and client success, we've experienced continuous growth. Charles River IMS is strategically aligned to innovate the future of investment management technologies. Together with State Street's middle and back-office capabilities, Charles River's cloud-deployed software technology forms the foundation of State Street Alpha℠.What

you are responsible for Responsibilities:

Apply detailed knowledge of business requirements, investment workflows, and operational processes to support product development initiatives.

Research, analyze, and produce comprehensive business and technical requirement documents.

Analyze middle-office and back-office investment management workflows and create detailed functional specifications.

Work directly with clients and product management teams to gather business requirements and develop product feature specifications.

Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering through implementation and validation.

Partner closely with engineering teams to design, develop, implement, and refine product capabilities.

Plan and coordinate validation activities, perform hands-on functional testing, and develop verification plans and processes.

Provide feedback on product functionality, usability, and performance to help drive continuous improvement.

Review product documentation and ensure complete, accurate, and high-quality deliverables.

Support client beta programs and assist in training users on new product capabilities and releases.

Assist in managing project schedules, milestones, deliverables, and…