Senior Business Analyst - Fixed Income

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.; Warwick; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000

Job description

There is a place for you at T. Rowe Price to grow, contribute, learn, and make a difference. We are a premier asset manager focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services that investors can rely on today and in the future. The work we do matters. We invite you to explore the opportunity to join us and grow your career with us.

The T Rowe Price Fixed Income Technology team, operating within the Front Office Investments Technology department, is looking for an experienced analyst to partner with our business stakeholders and engineering teams to build out the next generation of cloud-first investment management tooling. The role will be tasked with the development of a new vendor integrations aimed at Fixed Income Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) and Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs).

Collaborating across multiple investment and technology teams, you will:

1. Understand the holistic needs of stakeholders and propose innovative technology solutions to drive business outcomes.
2. Collaborate with Engineering Teams to build a product roadmap, ensure product features align to the long-term strategic needs of stakeholders.
3. Be regarded as the go-to Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Fixed Income portfolio management within the technology division.
4. Design data architecture workflow for SMA and CLO platform integrations.

Our company has made a big investment in the future of our technology and data. We have a vision of what we can achieve and ambitious plans to get there. We hold collaboration as a core tenet of how we accomplish our goals. You should be interested in a team-oriented approach; curious and enthusiastic learners will be amongst their tribe here. We are a group of diverse thinkers, working together with different perspectives to create optimal solutions to continue to propel T Rowe Price to great heights.

This role is an evolution of the traditional BA role, with emphasis placed on mixing subject matter expertise with an engineering mindset.

Core Competencies and Responsibilities:

1. Own the entire Fixed Income product lifecycle integration, develop, communicate, and execute the vision, strategy, and product roadmap.
2. Ability to effectively apply business analysis skills to map out and document end-to-end business workflows across different user groups using industry-standard best practices and tooling.
3. Understand Investment fixed income product strategy and ensure alignment across design, data, and engineering.
4. Establish product KPI's to measure and improve both the user experience and the development process.
5. Collaborate with strategic data/vendor providers to coordinate the sequence of deliveries across the Taxable Fixed Income SMA and CLO programs.
6. Drive application development and implementation through using business and technical knowledge to resolve blockers, through championing innovative and practical solutions.
7. Act with a lean-agile mindset to ensure organizational agility.
8. Proactively identify, lead, and help to influence discussions with the business to help solve a business problem, including various trade-offs and recommended approach.

Required Qualifications/Experience:

1. Subject Matter Expertise in Fixed Income & Investment workflows.
2. Trading workflows and lifecycle of a trade, Order Management Systems (OMS) and Execution Management Systems.
3. Experience with Fixed Income products, derivatives, and analytics within an Asset Management firm.
4. Systems analysis or experience working with and analyzing data for Front Office functions.
5. Experience with project analysis and planning (e.g., user story mapping).
6. General knowledge and awareness of macro financial markets and more specifically, the Asset Management industry.
7. Solid data analysis skills - SQL database queries, Excel/Access file manipulation, Jupyter notebooks.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

1. Working knowledge of Charles River Investment Management Solutions.
2. Working knowledge of Archer Investment Manager Services.
3. Working knowledge of Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) and/or Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) would be highly valued.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

We strive for equity, equality, and opportunity for all associates. When we embrace the power of diversity and create an environment where people can bring their authentic and best selves to work, our firm is stronger, and we create greater value for our clients. Our commitment and inclusive programming aim to lift the experience for each associate and builds allies for our global associate community. We know that a sense of belonging is key not only to your success at the firm, but also to your ability to bring your best each day.

T. Rowe Price is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of thought, gender, and race. We believe our continued success depends upon the equal treatment of all associates and applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, colour, national origin, sex, gender, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by country, federal, state, or local law.