What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst, Performance position at Geode Capital Management?
Geode is seeking a highly motivated Business Analyst to help a squad of IT professionals dedicated to managing, enhancing, and driving technology capabilities supporting performance measurement, finance, and business development functions within the organization. Your unique blend of investment management domain expertise, experience engaging business partners to improve business workflows, and genuine passion for delivering outcomes to users makes you the ideal fit.
In the collaborative setting of an agile structure, you will partner closely with business partners, squad members including those from engineering and QA, and business analysts in other squads, playing a crucial role in fostering consensus on priorities, and delivering scalable solutions for the business partners. Your responsibilities will involve business analysis, story writing and backlog grooming to ensure alignment of technology deliverables with needs of the business.
This is a hybrid work environment opportunity located in Boston, Massachusetts with a weekly in-office schedule of Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays with remote work availability on Mondays and Fridays.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring :
- Bachelor's degree (or above) preferably in Finance or Information Technology
- 5-8 years of hands-on experience in investment management, ideally performance measurement and performance attribution, finance, or another related field
- Demonstrated aptitude for investment management or related financial systems, and / or a background in business system analysis
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills
- Strong understanding of business functions, and particularly how performance measurement and attribution relate to portfolio management, and the overall investment process
- Experience working on project and backlog management and tracking tools such as JIRA
- Experience and understanding of Agile development methodologies, ideally in an investment technology or similar financial services software setting
- Experience working with business stakeholders and ability to translate their needs into requirements, breaking larger strategic objectives to smaller actionable tasks from which squad can deliver iteratively deliver business value
- Grasp product features and break them into clear and concise stories with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria
- Assist in the development of a product strategy, roadmap and plans for development, delivery, and support
Company Overview :
Founded in 2001, Geode is headquartered in Boston's financial district, the center of one of the world's most vibrant finance and technology hubs and employs approximately 180 employees.
Geode is an institutional asset manager providing core beta exposures across a range of equity and niche asset classes, with over $1 trillion in AUM as of June 30, 2024. With a robust infrastructure and experienced investment professionals, Geode offers the scale of a large asset management firm with the benefits of a smaller organization.
Geode is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and support a diversified work environment. Learn more about Geode at www.geodecapital.com / careers.