At MFS, you will find a culture that supports you in doing what you do best. Our employees work together to reach better outcomes, favoring the strongest idea over the strongest individual. We put people first and demonstrate care and compassion for our community and each other. Because what we do matters – to us as valued professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who rely on us to help them build more secure and prosperous futures.
THE ROLE
Apply sound judgment and discretion to address business challenges for the Cash Processing and Collateral Management Platform and the Equity SMA Platform by analyzing processes and environments and leveraging technology across business units. Lead the evolution of business processes that reimagines how MFS ingests and processes cash data, strengthens cash and collateral controls, and improves transparency across key cash views (e.g., trade-date, settlement-date, tradable, and encumbered/collateral cash) and position-level activity. In addition, evaluate processes and technology to deliver a more scalable future target end state for the highly customized and growing Retail SMA business.
Working in partnership with stakeholders across Operations, Investments, Compliance, and Technology, you will translate business needs into clear outcomes, actionable priorities, and well-defined requirements. Further, help maintain and support operational risk reduction portal, cash management, collateral management and product master systems.
Serve as a leader in an Agile environment for small to midsized projects, the candidate collaborates with product owners, developers and quality assurance teams to deliver solutions within tight deadlines.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Performs analysis of business activities to determine business requirements, current and future state processes and areas of risk mitigation.
Works within their Agile Team to understand and define needs above and beyond requirements provided by the business.
Converts business requirements into functional specifications.
Works closely with the project team members, business users, developers, QA and other technology professionals in an Agile environment to ensure project deliverables are completed on time and within budget.
Working with the Product Owner, acts as the liaison between business stakeholders and the technology organization to ensure proper implementation of requirements within the expected timetable. Communicates any material modifications of business requirements to business stakeholders.
Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and an understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements.
Works to ensure a positive end-product for business stakeholders by overseeing the implementation of new software. Creates and maintains proper training materials and business documentation.
Provides application and production support as needed to the departments and systems they support.
Collaborate with the QA team in developing high-level test plans. Reviews test cases developed by the QA team. Works with automated testing team as needed for performance / load testing and automated regression testing.
Follows the MFS Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring all steps of the process have been followed prior to releasing any code.
Provides input into the strategic planning of the department's initiatives and resources.
Mentors and advises less experienced Business Systems Analysts and other team members.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Minimum 6-8+ years of experience in Financial Services supporting Operations, Trading or Quantitative systems.
Strong technical skills including a solid understanding of underlying relevant technical architecture and business processes.
Proven ability to efficiently utilize resources and communicate with others, both verbally and in writing.
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