ALPHA - Business Analyst- Assistant Vice President

An experienced Security Master Data Analyst to support Global Alpha client implementations and middle-office onboarding. The successful candidate will combine Security Master subject matter expertise, business analysis, and project management office discipline to translate client requirements and source data into clear mapping, transformation, validation, testing, and implementation outcomes. This role requires strong analytical, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills across global business and technology teams.

The team you will be joining is a part of State Street Global Delivery (SSGD). SSGD gives asset owners and managers access to the essential financial tools they need to deliver effective investment solutions. From core custody, accounting, fund administration and shareholder recordkeeping, to complete operations solutions and servicing for alternative assets like OTC derivatives, private equity and real estate, SSGD tools help our clients make better investment choices and act on growth opportunities.

The Security Master function is critical to providing accurate, complete, and timely instrument and reference data across the implementation lifecycle. The SMF Analyst helps connect client requirements, source data, target solutions, testing, governance, and conversion execution so that downstream platforms and operational teams are prepared for go-live and transition to business as usual.

As SMF Analyst, Assistant Vice President, you will:

• Analyze client Security Master requirements, operating models, security populations, and source data structures.
• Lead requirement‑gathering sessions and document business, functional, data, control, and non‑functional requirements.
• Define source‑to‑target mapping, transformation, enrichment, defaulting, exception‑handling, and validation requirements.
• Develop and review mapping specifications that describe Security Master and reference data flows from client legacy systems to target applications.
• Support end‑to‑end solution design and partner with Product and Technology SMEs to clarify target data models, system functionality, integrations, and operational controls.
• Analyze data quality, completeness, referential integrity, tolerances, classifications, and consistency across systems.
• Support test strategy, scenario development, data preparation, readiness assessments, reconciliation, defect analysis, and entry and exit criteria.
• Investigate data and process issues, perform root‑cause analysis, coordinate remediation, and document decisions and outcomes.
• Partner with Implementation, Conversion, Product, Technology, Operations, testing teams, and clients to document requirements, test evidence, defects, resolutions, and implementation outcomes.
• Coordinate Security Master support for dry runs, dress rehearsals, cutover, go-live, and post‑production stabilization, including occasional weekend or off‑hours activity.
• Build and maintain integrated work plans, milestone schedules, deliverable trackers, RAID logs, decision logs, dependency registers, and action‑item trackers.
• Monitor progress against milestones, identify scope or schedule variance, and drive timely escalation and recovery actions.
• Prepare status reporting covering accomplishments, upcoming activities, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and leadership support required.
• Facilitate working sessions, governance meetings, readiness reviews, and checkpoint calls; publish agendas, minutes, actions, owners, and due dates.
• Maintain complete, current, and audit‑ready project documentation in approved repositories.
• Support scope, change, resource, and cross‑workstream dependency management while reinforcing…