Business Analyst Sql R Python Jobs in Reisterstown, MD

About this Position

The Front Office Enablement team (FOSE) team at T. Rowe Price is seeking an individual with relevant Technical Analyst experience in financial services/asset management who can operate independently as well as collaboratively with investments and technology teams providing analytics and data reporting support the Multi Asset Division.

You will work closely with the Multi Asset business collaborating, consulting and translating their requirements and partnering closely with our technology partners and other asset classes to deliver the required outcomes.

Role Summary

An accomplished Technical Business Analyst is required to work within the Investments business to work on a range of strategic projects and initiatives that use technology to evolve existing front office processes, which will require both a deep understanding of Investment Management and experience of delivering front office technology projects.

This person will partner and support the Investments business to understand and document the concepts and visions of their target state operating model and break it down into its constituent projects, consulting stakeholders and users across asset classes to refine and document the detailed requirements of each step and ensure they remain on the path to the end-vision.This person will serve as a sponsor for key feature delivery.

Excellent communication skills and proven experience working with both business and technology teams, to ensure accurate capture of business requirements and evolution of these through development cycles, testing and implementation are critical. Some programming skills would be highly beneficial to the role (Python, SQL, R).

The successful candidate will have industry perspective gained from the implementation of standard vendor and bespoke front office systems. Experience working collaboratively and seamlessly with technology teams and familiarity with technical concepts is essential. This person will be required to provide continual business insights to technology and provide effective transparency on project progress.

You will be responsible for producing quality deliverables including business vision and requirements, testing artifacts and working collaboratively to provide key reviews and input to all technology artifacts.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively, with business and technology teams and other stakeholders across asset classes, to conduct analysis and produce detailed artifacts including requirements documents, testing artifacts and other documentation.
• Responsible for ensuring that business requirements are accurately understood by technology, adjusted if necessary and verified during the technology development process.
• Proactively work with the sponsors to identify, approve, and prioritize deliverables throughout the lifecycle of all projects
• Testing of all technology deliverables, identify issues and agree changes to be rectified prior to business engagement to ensure effective use of their time.
• Actively build SME knowledge across the front office's processes and systems to effectively represent Investments in a variety of projects and change forums to influence, hold to account and provide transparency.

Qualifications

Required:

• Typically, a BS or MS degree (or equivalent experience) and 5+ years of Front Office Investment Management technical business analysis / project management experience.
• Strong academics with a project management qualification being an advantage (PMP, Prince II etc.)
• Understanding of basic investment strategies
• Ability to produce business requirements documents and other detailed documentation in a major front office strategic program.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and being able to work with people across multiple locations. Ability to translate and simplify complex business and technical concepts.
• Ability to work well with people with varying technical, business and cultural backgrounds.
• Preparing and running senior executive level meetings / Experience of facilitating meetings with stakeholders to review and solve issues.
• Well organized and self-motivated with strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Willingness to travel to our investment offices.

Preferred:

• Experience supporting a Multi Assetteam
• Some programming skills would be highly beneficial to the role (Python, SQL, R)

FINRA Requirements

FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.

Work Flexibility

This role is eligible for hybrid work.