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THE ROLE

The Senior Business Systems Analyst supports multiple asset classes (equities, fixed income, derivatives, and FX asset classes and their associated trading lifecycles and operational processes) and advances Investment & Operations technology initiatives that enable scalable, resilient, and efficient business capabilities across the firm. This role operates at an independent level, partnering closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, vendors, and senior business stakeholders to translate complex investment and operational needs into well-defined, high quality technology solutions.

The Senior Business Systems Analyst serves as a leader in an Agile environment for small to midsized projects, the candidate collaborates with product owners, developers and quality assurance teams to deliver solutions within tight deadlines. This individual is responsible for initially shaping solution scope, driving clarity across ambiguous problem spaces, and ensuring delivery outcomes align with business priorities.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Domain Analysis and Platform Solution Leadership

• Lead the analysis of investment & operations business processes and requirements gathering across a variety of platforms for post trade processing including Heliograph, SWIFT, Eagle and other internally developed messaging platforms.
• Converts complex business requirements into clear functional and non-functional specifications, including data, integration, and performance requirements aligned to investment platforms
• Acts as a trusted advisor to senior business stakeholders, proactively managing scope, expectations, and trade-offs in complex investment initiatives.

Agile Delivery & Quality Assurance

• Collaborates closely with engineering, QA, data, platform, and architecture teams to ensure requirements are testable, traceable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Reviews and validates test strategies, test cases, and acceptance criteria for trading and investment systems; supports automated, regression, and performance testing efforts as required.
• Ensures adherence to the firm's Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile delivery practices
• Ensure the successful completion of user acceptance testing.

Implementation, Support & Continuous Improvement

• Oversees implementation readiness, including data validation, operational workflows, controls documentation, and training materials for investment and operations users.
• Provides production support leadership for investment platforms, including incident triage, root-cause analysis, defect resolution, and continuous improvement recommendations.
• Contributes to strategic planning activities by providing input into investment technology roadmaps, platform enhancements, sequencing, and delivery risk assessments.

Leadership & Practice Development

• Mentors and coaches Business Systems Analysts, promoting strong analysis discipline, domain knowledge, and Agile best practices within Investment & Operations Technology.
• Influences continuous improvement of analysis methods, tools, and standards across the Investment & Operations Technology organization.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5-6+ years of experience in Financial Services supporting Operations, Trading or Quantitative systems.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of post trade processing trade lifecycle.
• Deep understanding of business analysis practices, system integration concepts, and modern technology architectures within investment environments.
• Proven analytical skills and a demonstrated ability to make independent decisions.
• An in-depth understanding of Agile framework and systems development lifecycle. Ability to perform detailed analysis on systems at all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to influence senior investment, operations, and technology stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring or leading other analysts and contributing to practice-level and domain-level improvements.
• Strong SQL skills.

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Base Salary Range: $70,000.00 - $101,000.00

This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus.

At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation. For that reason, we're including the salary range for this position. This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we'll pay depending on the candidate's experience, training and education. In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance. Other components of our Total Rewards Package include:

• MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company -sponsored 401(k)

• Education Assistance: MFS contributes $100 monthly up to $10,000 lifetime maximum directly to loan provider

• Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually

• Education Assistance: Access to discounted tutors and college coaches

• Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20-weeks for maternity, 12-weeks for parental and caregiver leaves

• Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account

• Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care)

• Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program with a focus on mental health, subsidized fitness benefit via Wellhub (formerly Gympass), where you can workout at gyms, studios and boutique fitness locations near you, join virtual personal training sessions and access a wide variety of well-being apps

Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work. We are committed to transparency - if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we'll be happy to discuss them

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At MFS, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply - you might be just the right candidate for this role or others.

MFS is a hybrid work environment (remote/onsite) unless otherwise stated in the job posting.

If any applicant is unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability, please contact MFS at 617-954-5000 or email talent_acquisition@mfs.com for assistance.

MFS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and it is our policy to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state or local laws. Employees and applicants of MFS will not be subject to harassment on the basis of their status. Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited. Please see the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal document, linked for your reference.