Senior Business Analyst – Eagle & Reporting

This is a Non-Employee Contingent Worker Role providing services for TIAA’s family of companies and will be employed by TIAA’s preferred 3rd Party Supplier. As a Non-Employee CW, perform a variety of moderately complex business planning, support, and project-related duties. Demonstrates an exceptional standard of quality and holds themselves accountable to achieving excellent results.

This role will sit onsite, likely in a hybrid capacity, at the location(s) listed in this posting.

The anticipated term of this engagement will be 11 months. This term could be extended based on company business needs.

The Lead Business Systems Analyst approves that designed system solutions are appropriate for business needs and consistent with the overall design of the organization’s information systems architecture. Working closely with senior leadership, this job manages large projects, processes and establishes operational plans.

• Provides senior level consulting services to business groups on process improvement projects designed to improve IT and business management results.
• Develops and implements new processes, standards or operational plans that will have impact on the achievement of functional results.
• Participates in defining and formulating senior leadership’s IT strategy through the review of business objectives and value proposition.
• Advises senior leadership on future business direction and aligns IT with business priorities, strategies, and operating models.
• Recommends solutions or improvements to business processes that can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology.
• Recommends long-term improvements and changes to organization’s IT systems to support future business direction and growth.
• Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level professionals.

• University (Degree) Preferred

• 5 Years Required; 7 Years Preferred

• Physical Requirements:
  
  Sedentary Work

9IC

Nuveen Operations Technology Team is looking for a senior BA / BSA having deep knowledge in Investment Performance & GIPS measurement and reporting using Eagle STAR and Eagle Performance module as a tool.

Candidate should be able to work on both Strategic Projects while supporting BAU specific enhancements, product launches etc as they may arise from time to time.

Candidate should be able to manage and prioritizing the product backlog that includes the epics, features, and user stories, translating product managers’ strategies to development tasks, and learning the customers’ and market’s requirements.

Communication with the customers, partners, and the Developer. Updating the Product Backlog regularly for the team meetings.

• 10 Years of progressive work experience in the investment management space
• Knowledge across front, middle and back-office solutions focusing investment / asset management
• Good knowledge across investment operational process across accounting, trade settlement, corp. actions, collateral management etc.
• Candidate with deep knowledge across Fixed Income, Equity and Derivatives performance measurement is a must.
• Good working knowledge understanding on Eagle data enrichment, perf.calc construction and Eagle data mart modules
• Good working knowledge on identifying and resolving performance returns issues
• Strong investment data knowledge across EQ, FI, Derivatives and alternate assets
• Strong knowledge on operational process including Mutual Funds, CITs, ETFs and Separately Managed Accounts
• Strong working knowledge in Eagle suit of products (Accounting, Pricing, Investment Performance and Data Management)
• Ability to review Current Processes of Business Users and identify opportunities or Strategies to improve business efficiency while ensuring maximum Customer Satisfaction with proper negotiation and building good relationship with all key stakeholders involved.
• Prepare Functional Requirement Documents, BRDs , Perform Impact and Gap analysis with proper formal documentation.
• Identify and communicate risks during analysis…