Sr. Business Analyst - Private Markets

Description

One of TEKsystems Clients is looking for a Sr. BA/BSA on a 6-month contract to start. The project aims at streamlining the ways they invest money in global credit as well as manage the investments once they are made. Need to streamline how you invest, IMCO as an asset manager pools money and invests in assets. They are optimizing the way they pool money.

The new BSA will help them look at requirements – if they need to optimize pooling strategy. Once the pooling is done the portfolio monitoring is similar to what they are doing for Novus. Floating all the assets into new portfolio monitoring system, which will be a new system for global credit. Optimizing they invest money in global credit and streamline the way they manage assets once the investments are made.

• Private Market Departments
• Front Office
• Investment Operations
• Implementation Partner (PWC)
• Vendors

As a Member of Our Team You Will be Responsible For:

• Act as primary liaison and technical advisor to investment management teams across all private markets asset classes (Infrastructure, Private Equity, Global Credit and Real Estates)
• Work with project implementation team to evaluate available systems. Assist with the development of evaluation criteria and scoring matrix
• Participate in vendor demonstrations and product evaluations. Provide recommendations to executives
• Lead planning and direct analysis discussion with business stakeholders to ensure full understanding of organizational objectives and priorities
• Provide guidance and carry-out business analysis, and translate into technical specifications and solutions
• Partner with all stakeholders, including investment management, development, infrastructure, and third‑party vendors, to develop solutions to supports investment strategies and corporate objectives
• Oversee and lead detail process mapping, and document findings as related to investment operations
• Contribute to business cases for systems implementations, and participate in RFP and due diligence processes
• Manage enhancements of investment operations and workflows including downstream processing and investment reporting
• Lead implementation of new investment systems solutions to support all front office functions, including all public and private markets asset classes, total portfolio management and public markets alternatives
• Engage technology architects and other IT partners to determine dependency and impact to the overall investment systems architecture
• Manage, design and execute the testing process to ensure visibility, traceability, and effective execution to deliver high quality solutions
• Disseminate knowledge and information with other team members in collaborative manner
• Conduct risk‑benefits analysis in clear technical and non‑technical language
• Think creatively to design solutions with a forward‑thinking approach to best accommodate future opportunities in IMCO’s growing environment
• Ensure adherence to IMCO’s processes and procedures, and the overall supportability of all solutions with proper documentation and training
• Strive to improve environment stability by working with others to set up and maintain production configurations
• Continuously elevate service levels with all business users
• Monitor operational risk and systems performance management in all initiatives
• Represent IT team to plan and execute DR/BCP

• Experience in systems selection and implementation for portfolio management and reporting
• Deep understanding of the private market asset classes deal flow and operations
• Direct working experience of front office operations across different asset classes and teams
• Comprehensive knowledge of internal and external investment workflows and trading lifecycle
• Multiple implementation experience of public and private markets investment systems such as portfolio management and analytical systems, order management systems, and research platforms, including total portfolio view and analytics by asset class and strategy
• Familiar with private markets investment workflows such as origination and deal flow of direct and co‑investment
• Strong experience in data aggregation from multiple…