What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst, Macro Middle Office Technology position at Point72?
A Career with Point72’s Technology Team
As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.
The Macro Middle Office Trade Processing and Position Team is responsible for the development, maintenance, and automation of the systems that process trade executions into position keeping systems. The systems support a wide range of financial products and asset classes including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and credit. The team is global with personnel and service providers located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
What you’ll do
We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here
The annual base salary range for this role is $150,000-$225,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.
The Macro Middle Office Trade Processing and Position Team is responsible for the development, maintenance, and automation of the systems that process trade executions into position keeping systems. The systems support a wide range of financial products and asset classes including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and credit. The team is global with personnel and service providers located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
What you’ll do
- Analyze and document business processes, listening to management, stakeholders and developers.
- Research, measure, and analyze requirements and translate to implementation specifications, including one-off enhancement requests as well as large-scale projects.
- Understand functional and process requirements, relevant system(s) and data to define optimal deliverable to meet business needs as well as technology goals.
- Build consensus between stakeholders and developers to define clear and testable acceptance criteria.
- Work with developers throughout the SDLC process, validate deliverables, and see them through to production release.
- Document data and process flows, both existing and proposed.
- Work with the team lead to organize, maintain, and track capacity, velocity, statuses, and deliverables.
- 3 years of financial services industry experience as a Business Analyst with a proven track record of improving business and operational processes.
- Experience working with a third-party books and records system (Orchestrade, Murex, Calypso, FIS or close competitors).
- Fundamental knowledge of financial products including fixed income, FX, credit, equities, commodities, and derivatives and associated trade capture and position lifecycle management, including P&L.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, fluency with presentation software.
- Ability to work in fast-paced, complex environment. Comfortable with multitasking and handling high pressure situations that could arise from production issues.
- Attention to detail and commitment to reliable production deliverables.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
- Fully-paid health care benefits
- Generous parental and family leave policies
- Mental and physical wellness programs
- Volunteer opportunities
- Non-profit matching gift program
- Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT community
- Tuition assistance
- A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more
Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here
The annual base salary range for this role is $150,000-$225,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
Salary : $150,000 - $225,000
