Senior Business Analyst, Inves Tech

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you’re looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including:

• Flexible paid time off

• Hybrid work schedule

• 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution

• Health & wellbeing benefits

• Parental Leave benefits

• Employee stock purchase plan

Your Role

This role will involve both business analysis and project management aspects, collaborating with multiple Front Office and Technology teams to address business problems and identify Technology solutions. You will be a key contributor to ongoing critical Front Office Technology solutions, and will play a vital role in the Investment Technology delivery of our Strategic Imperatives.

You will work collaboratively and directly with other engineering teams and analysts to build robust, high-quality systems using modern software engineering techniques.

The ideal candidate is always seeking to understand not just the ‘what’ of an issue, but also the ‘why’, and able to articulate the optionality around potential solutions clearly to colleagues and partners. You should be as comfortable speaking with Investment Professionals about the innovations they seek as with Technology colleagues

You will be responsible for:

• Consulting with Business Partners in the Front Office to solicit in-depth requirements that contribute to the design, build and implementation of solutions and enhancements
• Partnering with other Investment related teams – i.e. Capital Markets, Investment Compliance, Investment Services – as well as external vendors in the execution of project delivery
• Playing a implementation role in the development roadmap of new and existing tools and to continuously refine and improve the level of capabilities delivered
• Developing subject matter expertise in the core business processes under review in order to propose the most optimal solutions
• Challenging yourself and our business partners to think to the future, asking can things be done differently ?
• Project managing certain initiatives, including the provision of delivery status updates and the management of risks and issues
• Providing consultative assistance to the Engineering Run/Support teams on an ad-hoc basis
• Actively participating in Agile squad ceremonies, working with the Scrum Master and Product Owners to ensure backlog prioritization is correctly focused

The experience you Bring:

• Ideally 5+ years experience in Asset Management ideally, or Investment Banking as an alternative
• Exposure to equity, fixed income and derivative instruments
• You will ideally have a good understanding of the function of Order Management Systems, preferably with Charles River or a comparable platform
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficient at engaging with partners and colleagues to understand and effectively document problem statements
• Able to understand a problem end to end, challenging the continuation of legacy processes when appropriate
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and be comfortable compiling and delivering presentations and solution design documents
• Familiar with Agile practices and methodologies
• Comfortable partnering with partner BA’s and Engineers to derive suitable…