Eagle Pace Investment Data Analyst

Job Overview

Neos Consulting Group is seeking an Investment Data Analyst for a long-term contract role with our client in Austin, TX. This is a hybrid position, and candidates must reside within a 50-mile radius of Austin, TX 78701.

Functional Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities for improving business processes for efficiency and effectiveness.
• Analyze program policies and procedures to assess their impact on automated systems.
• Develop ideas focusing on business value, including industry trends, risk assessments, business continuity, and capability requirements.
• Coordinate and analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems.
• Analyze computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Manage the service request life cycle, including customer responses, business requirements coordination, technical specification review, and system integration/user acceptance testing.
• Coordinate with outside vendors and contractors to complete projects and service requests.
• Identify potential project risks and design mitigation strategies.
• Review complex project deliverables such as design documentation, test plans, and risk assessment plans.
• Lead and coordinate process change requests, managing project scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment.
• Correlate business value and priorities with planning activities and goal-setting.
• Develop training curriculum and conduct formal system training.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a degree in management information systems or business administration.
• 4 years of experience in planning, eliciting, analyzing, and managing business requirements throughout the SDLC, including regression testing.
• Validate requirements with Front Office, Middle Office, and Regulatory stakeholders.
• 4 years of experience leading business process reengineering and transformation efforts.
• 4 years of experience as a business relationship manager (liaison) between functional and technical teams.
• 4 years of experience leading project teams and managing organizational efforts involving change management, stakeholder relationships, performance tracking, resource allocation, vendor coordination, and task delegation.
• Considerable knowledge of public and private markets, investment concepts, and terminology.
• 4 years of experience with investment transactions related to credit & hedge funds, private equity, infrastructure, private real estate, public real estate, and public equity.
• 4 years of experience working with Operations teams, Trading desks, Investment teams, Software vendors, and internal development teams.
• 4 years of experience analyzing and evaluating complex investment information, technology applications, policies, and issues.
• 4 years of experience developing and conducting training sessions for new and enhanced systems.
• 4 years of experience in a scrum master role or agile scrum environment.
• 4 years of experience with projects addressing data management, data quality, data warehousing, data modeling, data migration, integration, secure file transfers, enterprise system analysis, enterprise architecture, and information security principles.
• 4 years of experience with investments management systems implementations and enhancements (e.g., Eagle Investment Accounting, Bloomberg financial data and transfer).

Preferred Requirements

• 4 years of experience in business consulting.
• 4 years of experience with system implementations supporting business areas like finance, procurement, legal, HR, and vendor relations.
• 4 years of experience with MS Azure DevOps for requirements management.
• 4 years of experience with project management software.
• Technical expertise in business systems analysis, system configuration, information security, and internal control frameworks.
• Technical expertise with reporting databases, database design, and data modeling.
• Technical expertise in enterprise business analysis, business case development, and risk assessments.
• Technical expertise in creating system-level documentation and training materials.
• Master's degree (MBA) or relevant certifications (CCBA, CBAP, CSM, CSPO, PMI-PBA, PMP, ITIL, ICGB).

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex issues and propose solutions.
• Ability to analyze systems and procedures.
• Ability to write and revise standards and procedures.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with all management levels and technical/non-technical personnel.
• Ability to understand business processes and their dependencies.
• Knowledge of business analysis procedures, business process modeling, and requirements/process modeling tools.
• Ability to obtain and sustain cooperation.
• Ability to provide excellent customer service.
• Ability to present a professional image.

Professional Expectations

• Attend all meetings and meet delivery deadlines.
• Be available during ERS office hours and log in to agency Jabber.
• Attend remote meetings with the camera on unless otherwise arranged.
• Coordinate leave and vacation with the ERS lead.
• Dress appropriately for a business/business casual environment.
• Communicate respectfully and work harmoniously with all colleagues, customers, and vendors.
• Provide exceptional customer service.
• Be flexible, able to work under pressure, adapt to change, and manage multiple tasks.
• Take initiative to prevent and solve problems.

Key skills/competency

Investment Data Analysis, Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management, SDLC, Stakeholder Management, Business Relationship Management, Project Management, Agile Scrum, Data Management, Investment Accounting Systems.