Senior Business Systems Analyst

Location: New York

Nuveen, the investment manager of TIAA, offers a comprehensive range of outcome-focused investment solutions designed to secure the long-term financial goals of institutional and individual investors. Its affiliates offer deep expertise across a comprehensive range of traditional and alternative investments through a wide array of vehicles and customized strategies. For more information about the firm please visit our website at Nuveen is a global investment manager that works in partnership with our clients to create outcome-focused solutions to help them reach their goals for their financial future.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Identifies and analyzes business needs, conducts requirement gathering, and defines scope and objectives of each project.
• Leads the identification of portions of the organization's IT platform/infrastructure with the highest potential return for cloud deployment.
• Implements the organization's global strategies and initiatives to enhance Information Technology plans, operations and procedures.
• Makes recommendations for solutions or improvements to business processes that can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology.
• Translates business requirements into application requirements, and works with all members of the team to execute the application successfully.
• Engages client teams and explains moderately complex initiatives in an understandable manner, while also addressing any hesitations or concerns from the client.
• Estimates the costs of various system solutions and prepares project plans to provide input into decisions about prioritizing projects and allocating IT resources.
• Prepares and maintains technical documentation to guide system users and to assist with the ongoing operation, maintenance, and development of the system.
• Coaches and reviews the work of lower level professionals.
• Reviews and conducts cost/benefit evaluation of cloud solutions compared to virtual private networks, dedicated hosting, and in-house solutions.
• Determines the technical feasibility of adopting external cloud based IT platform and infrastructure services within the organization.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Required

Work Experience

• 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements:
  
  Sedentary Work

Career Level
7IC

Nuveen Taxable Fixed Income Technology is hiring Senior Business Systems Analyst who will be part of Taxable Fixed Income (TFI) a front office technology team. This role will be responsible for Liaison with Front office (PM, Traders, Research etc.) and if needed middle office, provide white glove support, contribute to change and transformation agenda as BA (create BRD, maintain product backlog, Testing, UAT, Roll Out etc.)

Required Skills:

• 3+ Years of Experience in State Street's OMS - CRIMS (Charles River MS) - Set up, Configuration, Integration, Implementation, Testing, Support etc.
• Experience on key CRIMS Components - Manager Workbench, Compliance, What-if, Reba lancer and more.
• Experience in SQL, Linux/Unix/Python scripting , office tools (excel/PPT/Word), JIRA, Service Now.

Preferred

Skills:

• Experience in Fixed Income Technology / Operations but open of other asset class experience on CRIMS.
• Experience in AWS, and Python
• Experience in BQL (Bloomberg Query Language)

Related Skills

Acceptance Testing, Business Analysis, Business Process Improvement, Business Process Mapping, Business Process Understanding, Business Requirements, Collaboration, Data Analysis, IT Business Analysis, Systems Design/Analysis, Systems Development Life Cycle, Technical Documentation, Test Planning

Anticipated Posting End Date:

Base Pay Range: $88,900/yr - $116,000/yr

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans).

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