PGIM Lead, Business Systems Analyst; Hybrid-Newark, NJ

Position: PGIM Lead, Business Systems Analyst (Hybrid-Newark, NJ)
Job Classification:

Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product
** What you will do
** PGIM Technology plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering customer-driven solutions across every area of the company. Our team is made up of diverse, agile-thinking, and highly skilled professionals; we use our combined capabilities to enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency. The successful candidate will work with a highly performing and diverse team that supports PGIM Global Wealth’s Strategic Investment Research and Portfolio Trading Business including portfolio management functions, operations and research analytics.
** What you can expect
*** Build new and existing applications in preparation for a launch of new business.
* Align with the business teams and rest of the PGIM Technology teams in assessing business needs and transforming them into scalable applications.
* Work closely with quantitate modeling team and portfolio managers.
* Collaborate with business groups to define solutions to business needs. This includes eliciting, analyzing and documenting business requirements, identifying multiple approaches, making recommendations, and facilitating brainstorming and requirement walk-through sessions.
* Partner with the Technology team. Analyzing and documenting systems / report design requirements which can include technical specifications, pseudo code, database table design, diagramming business process flows; to validate that the system solution meets the business need.
* Conducting project related tests which include developing detailed test plans, test cases and expected results; conducting tests; evaluating and documenting results.
* Develop subject matter expertise on the trading, performance/attribution and risk analytics platforms.
* Provide on-going support and troubleshooting production and test issues to perform root cause analysis, reconciliations, recommending corrective action and leading the resolution efforts.
* Taking deep analytical dives on data while being able to conceptualize, synthesize and critically evaluate gathered information, and communicate findings and recommendations.
** What you will bring
*** Undergraduate (B.S.) degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or Information System is preferred.
* Minimum of 8+ years’ experience in the Financial Industry.
* Experience with Blackrock Aladdin is required.
* Previous experience with Bloomberg data is a big plus.
* At least 5 years of ALM (Asset and Liability Management) experience with deep knowledge of performance, risk and attribution.
* Previous experience with reinsurance industry is a huge plus.
* In-depth understanding of various Fixed Income instruments and their analytics, characteristics, and benchmarks with proven knowledge of Derivatives and its processes is required.
* Candidate must have highly developed analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skill sets. Position requires the ability to quickly trouble shoot issues and think outside the box.
* Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and connect the dots, as well as demonstrate drive, resourcefulness, and personal ownership of assignments.
* Ability to work independently is critical, as is the ability to work effectively in a diverse team environment and actively participate in assessing impact of requested changes on existing processes.
* Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and comfortable working with all levels of an organization’s technology and business groups.
* Proficient with MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio and PowerPoint. Prior experience with JIRA and Confluence is a plus.
* Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience is preferred.
* Must be highly proficient in data manipulation and writing SQL queries.
* Hands-on experience with any investment / trading system, or performance attribution system is a plus.
* Ability to manage small team or projects is highly desirable.
** PGIM welcomes all applicants, even if you don't meet every requirement. If your skills align with the role, we encourage you to apply.
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