Job Description
The Product Development team within Morgan Stanley Fund Services (MSFS) works with the business to establish the overall strategy and priorities for the technology products and platforms. Based on the business strategy and overall priorities, the Product Development team creates product plans including high level business requirements, cost analysis, benefits definition and an overall go to market rollout plan. The team then leads the testing of the product and execution of the rollout plan, along with the handover to business unit once complete.
This candidate requires proven analytical skills, demonstrated capability of capturing complex business requirements and transforming them into accurate and precise functional technical specifications with use cases capable of interpretation by both technical and non-technical readers. This candidate must have the ability to maintain deliverables to schedule, ability to adapt to changes in requirements and priorities and communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
This candidate will work closely with the business unit to manage and implement the direction and priorities of Business Process Management platform. They will be responsible for gathering detailed user requirements for the IT development teams, facilitating design reviews with the business and management of the overall rollout including requirement and user testing in all environments (QA/UAT/Production), Global staff training and final delivery. This role also includes being an escalation point for user support for the team’s products, ability to track client issues and feedback, and working with the business to prioritize post implementation issues and enhancement requests. This candidate would require co-ordination between the business and development teams across multiple global locations.
Skills Required
- - Strong Business Analyst skills
- - Strong communication and project management understanding including analytical and problem solving skills
- - Visual modelling skills
- - Documentation and Specification skills
- - Ability to work and lead as part of a focused globally distributed team.
Skills/Qualifications Desired
- - Technical knowledge of business process management platforms/tools
- - Experience in business process improvement, streamlining, and automation
- - Knowledge of hedge fund industry and accounting fund administration business
- - Knowledge of Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, Share point
- - Knowledge of Business and IT ticketing systems (JIRA / Service Now)
- - Understanding and experience of agile delivery methodology
- - Interest in user experience (UX) design
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