Business Architecture Consultant

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct over 40% of our profits every year—more than $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.

All 1,400 of us across the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you’re excited to learn more about us, we can’t wait to learn more about you.

The primary responsibility of the Business Architecture Consultant, Client Insights and Analysis is to help drive the strategic and operational initiatives of Global Distribution. This role will bring a strategic orientation combined with strong execution skills, as well as an ability to engage with and gain credibility with a broad range of stakeholders including senior leadership and multiple internal constituents. This role also serves as a central point of organization for various projects across Global Distribution to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in prioritizing, developing and driving the strategic business agenda for the group.

The primary responsibilities of this role are:

Develop, plan and execute against operational roadmaps, functioning as a Business Process Architect.

a. Planning and execution will involve collaboration with sales, marketing, operations, IT, sales enablement, product, analytics and other internal business partners to connect roadmaps with operational decisions

b. Creates and develops solutions for process improvements, enhancements and operation efficiency; this includes the communication strategy and execution.

2.           Strategic and tactical execution of multiple initiatives across the Distribution organization. Examples include:

a. assisting in development of roadmaps.

b. developing operating and infrastructure project plans for varying levels of initiatives, coordination

c. execution of analytical efforts, business analysis and decision support.

Required Skills

• Self-starter, goal-oriented, persistent, high-energy, enthusiastic, driven to succeed and unquestioned integrity
• Demonstrated ability to understand why, not just what
• Ability to lead a virtual team in a dotted line organization across multiple time zones
• Ability to speak confidently and competently to engender the trust and respect of peers and senior level management
• Understanding of the application of technology within the framework of business analytics
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Financial/quantitative analytical skills preferred
• Extremely organized and high attention to detail
• Ability to facilitate effective meetings, communicate results to a project team and key stakeholders, and to drive projects forward

Required Experience/Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Finance, preferred
• At least 5 years of experience in financial services with a focus in Asset Management preferred
• In-depth knowledge of analytical and BI tools, such as Tableau and PowerBI
• Project Management experience preferred
• Experience using Agile (or related) planning environment or Business Process Architecture
• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance

Additional Requirements

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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