Business Analyst, Back Office Technology

A Career with Point72's Technology Team

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company's IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We're a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.

The Back Office Technology Team supports trade processing, position keeping, clearing/settlement, fund accounting, trade reconciliation and prime broker integrations. The team partners with Back Office business stakeholders to customize and implement solutions supporting trade processing and new business developments.

What you'll do

In this role, you will help guide Back Office development initiatives and transformation programs, including modernizing trade processing, implementing new financial products, and improving Prime Broker reconciliations. As a member of the Back Office Technology leadership team, you will coordinate program initiatives between technology teams and business partners, as well as:

• Manage the planning and delivery of select software / system development initiatives
• Help develop resource planning strategies supporting program initiatives
• Guide requirement gathering, acceptance criteria definition, and release deployment processes
• Maintain executive status reporting, milestone tracking, and team performance metrics
• Manage program issues and risks, helping to identify appropriate mitigation plans
• Help coordinate team processes to ensure optimal delivery schedules, operational metrics, software quality, and team performance
• Track cross-team dependencies and manage project conflict resolutions

What's required

• 8+ years of work experience running technology projects within middle and/or back-office development teams and managing client-facing communications
• Experience implementing or integrating with industry-known prime broker reconciliation platforms
• Knowledge of financial products including fixed income, credit, equities, and derivatives
• Experience programming with SQL and/or other data processing tools such as Tableau or Alteryx
• Fluent in the software development life cycle (Waterfall and Agile) and software development tools
• Experience holding Scrum meetings, tracking project velocity, forecasting project completion with EVA or Agile methodologies
• Experience creating data flow diagrams, business requirements documents, quality assurance plans, and data conversion / deployment plans
• Experience collaborating with cross functional teams at scale (at least 20+ people) and evaluating project priorities with business sponsors
• Experience budgeting / forecasting and resource planning at the program and project level
• Experience managing projects based on cloud and micro-service based architectures
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Volunteer opportunities
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry's brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people's long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/.

The annual base salary range for this role is $275,000-$300,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.