
Business Analyst, ETF Focused
Nomura
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Philadelphia • Pennsylvania • United States
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Salary
💰 $100,000 - $120,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Function as a liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring requirements are accurately captured, processes are streamlined, and deliverables are aligned with business objectives
- Facilitate communication, drive efficiency, and help mitigate risks throughout the migration and transformation process
- Analyze and document current-state and future-state business, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement
- Convert business objectives and requirements into clear, actionable specifications for technology teams, ensuring mutual understanding
- Facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) and sign-off of migrated applications and processes, ensuring solutions align with business goals
- Assess and communicate the impact of technology changes on business operations, processes, and roles
- Develop training materials, conduct training sessions, and provide ongoing support to business users during and after migration
- Work with business and technical teams to map source and target data structures, ensuring data integrity during migration and define and execute business-level data validation processes post-migration, collaborating with technology teams to resolve discrepancies
- Proactively identify business risks related to migration, integration, and process changes and implement necessary mitigation strategy
- Gather and analyze feedback from business users to identify areas for process improvement and optimization and document lessons learned and best practices for future migrations and technology transitions
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, or related field
- 3-5+ years’ experience with system migrations, data transitions, or similar transformation projects with demonstratable leadership responsibilities
- Advanced knowledge of and substantiated work within business analysis methodologies (Agile) and industry best practices
- Proficiency in documentation tools (Confluence, DrawIO for process mapping), data analysis tools (Excel, SQL basics, Aladdin? or specific platforms we are targeting), and project management tools (Jira, ServiceNow, etc.)
- Knowledge of the Investment Management/Asset Management industry is a plus; knowledge of the ETF space is preferred
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Proven stakeholder management experience across multiple business units
- Ability to work in fast-paced, changing environments
Benefits
- Aon’s Benefit Index ® , Nomura’s benefits rank #1 amongst our competitors
- Health insurance
- 401(k) eligibility
- Various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
business analysissystem migrationsdata transitionsAgiledata analysisdocumentationprocess mappingstakeholder managementdata validationproblem-solving
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipanalytical abilitiescollaborationrisk mitigationtrainingprocess improvementadaptabilityuser acceptance testingfeedback analysis