Who we are looking for
We are looking for a professional with at least 5 years of industry experience who has good understanding of investment operations. In this role, you will focus on change management and have the opportunity to use your analytical and project management skills.

Why this role is important to us
State Street IMS is responsible for outsource service provision through leading edge technology and services for its clients. SSC has demonstrated excellent success in recent times with major client wins covering in excess of 10 locations worldwide, including UK, Europe, India and USA, for the outsource arrangements of Fund Accounting and Investment Operations. SSC are increasing its talent to support the planning, development and roll-out of the Enterprise project within the Investment Operations arena and require keen and experienced investment operations business professionals to play a key role in the delivery of a successful solution.
Join us if making your mark in the financial services industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

What you will be responsible for
As an Alpha Strategic Client Project Change Analyst you will be responsible for:

• Day to day management of change requests

• Maintaining, reviewing, tracking and supporting client change requests

• Ensuring that the change requests are analyzed, monitored, discussed and agreed with business owners

• Identifying and allocate relevant change approvals

• Reporting change to both internal and customer management team

• Driving continuous improvements to the quality and efficiency of the change management process

• Ensuring operational teams adhere to Alpha service level standards

• Keeping abreast of market changes and internal system developments ensuring all new processes align to best practices and capabilities

• Developing and maintaining issues, risks, dependencies, constraint logs; ensuring all are tracked, measured, completed and reported to key stakeholders

• Requirements gathering & Impact assessment

• Research and analysis in the solutioning phase

• Managing IT requirements/requests

• Operational and other business readiness

• Implementation & test management.

What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Strong analytical and solid time management skills

• Excellent organizational, planning and co-ordination skills;

• Proven project management skills

• Proven strong communication, interpersonal, decision-making and negotiation skills

• Ability to influence and work collaboratively across multiple organizations to reach common goals;

• Team player with can-do attitude.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor's degree or equivalent

• At least 5 years financial services experience including analysis or project management experience or change delivery

• Good end to end knowledge of Front, Middle and Back Office platforms and processes of Investment firms

• Understanding of standards, methodologies, processes, systems and technology necessary to support investment management operations

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, MS Project)

• Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE or PMI) and/or consulting experience is a plus.

• Asset management experience, including investment operations is a plus

We offer

• Employee savings plan

• Premium life insurance package

• VIP medical package

• International operating environment

• Language classes

• Soft skills training

• Technical workshops

• Development sessions with a mentor

• Diversity of opportunities across a range of challenging and highly complex activities

• Technical or leadership career pathway