Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• 2-4 years of experience in investment operations, financial services, or a related field.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to manage deliverables for senior investment professionals.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with Power BI tools and use of AI.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Investment Business Heads for Equities, Fixed Income, and Multi-Asset Hedge Fund Solutions in creating quarterly Town Hall materials, maintaining scorecards, and creating other strategic business material that covers performance, AUM, expenses, and strategic priorities.
• Conduct ongoing reviews of the Investment teams market data costs to rationalize demand and reduce the spending.
• Analyze synergies of services across teams, explore more cost-effective alternatives, and work closely with the AB market data team to manage new service requests and contract renewals.
• Assess AI tools to create an inventory for key contract terms across vendors and manage renewal cycles.
• Provide quarterly KPI reporting to investment teams to validate services and costs.
• Leverage various reporting tools to create analytics that monitor the travel and expense cost trends for each business unit, ensuring they remain within budget and identify opportunities for cost savings.
• Provide monthly KPI reporting to Business heads.
• Manage the Investment teams list of critical vendors and execute on the annual Vendor risk review process.
• Collaborate with the AB Vendor Risk Management team on the process and systems utilized.
• Review the allocated costs across Technology and Operations to each Investment Business unit to identify changes and opportunities to reduce overall costs across Investments.
• Participate in and manage various projects related to initiatives aimed at improving business operations.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.