Who we are looking for
State Street’s Alpha Strategy and Implementation Services team is seeking a skilled professional with expertise in financial services, data analysis, and business systems to support our Transaction Management onboarding projects. As an Alpha Client Data Integration Analyst, you will play a key role in onboarding clients to State Street's middle office trade processing platform. Under the guidance of a team leader, you will assist with Alpha Implementation projects, ensuring seamless integration and optimal client satisfaction. Your responsibilities will include managing and comprehending client data in accordance with agreed-upon services and operating models, thereby contributing to the success of our implementation initiatives.
Why this role is important to us
Institutional investors worldwide depend on our expertise to manage risk, address challenges, and enhance performance and profitability. The team you will join is essential to the success of the Alpha and Global Delivery client onboarding and implementations organization. In this position, you will pursue innovative, efficient, and scalable solutions, while supporting operational resilience and executing daily responsibilities effectively. Ideal candidates demonstrate a willingness to develop their understanding of middle office trade processing and services. We are committed to fostering long-term professional growth and cultivating talent for the Alpha implementation team.
We invite you to contribute to the financial services industry and progress your career with us.
What you will be responsible for
As an Alpha Client Data Integration analyst, your responsibilities will include:
Assisting with onboarding clients’ middle office services onto State Street platforms and providing support to the client and relevant workstreams during the implementation phase.
Learning about the firm’s operating model, strategic plans, business, middle office operations processes, and architecture to help contribute to solution development.
Helping to gather and communicate business requirements for product enhancements that align with the overall Alpha vision, and supporting the broader team’s efforts in Transaction Management.
Reviewing and preparing large data sets for configuration and migration to the middle office trade processing platform, and helping create basic visualizations or dashboards to support analysis and presentations.
Collaborating with project stakeholders in Program Delivery, Operations, Technology, and Business units involved in Transaction Management onboarding and servicing, while learning to manage different priorities among these groups.
Becoming familiar with Transaction Management standard data modeling, transaction processing, and product knowledge to assist with the onboarding process.
Supporting Transaction Management implementation leads by helping to document and understand trade flows for various financial instruments as part of each Alpha client onboarding project.
Helping to identify and track gaps in transaction processing and data requirements throughout delivery, testing, and their final integration into the operating model.
Supporting project tasks such as maintaining onboarding project plans, tracking project timelines and issues, assisting with conversion approaches, and helping with post-go-live efforts.
Identifying opportunities to automate processes and supporting efforts to reduce operational risk by increasing automation.
Assisting with documenting processes from both a setup perspective and a general financial services market perspective.
Working with other Middle Office workstreams to help align the Transaction Management operating model, understand dependencies, and contribute to collaborative solutions.
What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role
Interest in gaining knowledge related to middle office operations and the financial services sector.
Familiarity with financial instruments and asset classes, including Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, TBAs, and Repos.
Capable of understanding and analyzing large, complex data sets, with experience creating visual dashboards using tools such as Microsoft PowerBI. Proficient in Power Query for tasks involving data transformation, cleansing, preparation, and integration from various sources and formats.
Experience analyzing large data sets with Microsoft Co-Pilot is preferred.
Able to interpret client requirements and convert those into State Street-specific data configuration tasks.
Demonstrates communication, problem-solving, analytical skills, attention to detail, and organization. Capable of troubleshooting independently and assembling supporting evidence. Possesses organizational and prioritization abilities.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
3 – 5 years of industry experience with Middle Office trade processing or implementation, analytics and applications
BS degree in Business, Finance or similar related topics – Data analysis specialization highly desirable.
Competency in PowerBI, Power Query, MS Co-Pilot or other similar data analysis tools. MS Office including MS Excel, MS Word and MS Access
Some knowledge of Electronic trading platforms including Chares River, Bloomberg, Thinkfolio and other Order Management systems.
Additional requirements
Potential to travel to alternate sites for specific projects may be required, but fairly limited.
Salary Range:
$70,000 - $118,750 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
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