Company Description

As a leading global investment management firm, AB fosters diverse perspectives and embraces innovation to help our clients navigate the uncertainty of capital markets. Through high-quality research and diversified investment services, we serve institutions, individuals, and private wealth clients in major markets worldwide. Our ambition is simple: to be our clients’ most valued asset-management partner.

With over 4,000 employees across 57 locations operating in 26 countries and jurisdictions , our people are our advantage. We foster a culture of intellectual curiosity and collaboration to create an environment where everyone can thrive and do their best work. Whether you're producing thought-provoking research, identifying compelling investment opportunities, infusing new technologies into our business, or providing thoughtful advice to clients, we’re looking for unique voices to help lead us forward. If you’re ready to challenge your limits and build your future, join us.

Job Description Summary

We are seeking a Pune based Business Analyst to join our Legal and Compliance Technology Team in Global Technology & Operations.

Team/Group Description

Legal and Compliance Technology provides project management, business analysis, software development, systems administration and production support to the Legal & Compliance, Audit, and Risk departments.  Compliance and Legal Technology provides global support for internally developed applications and websites, internally hosted third-party applications, and externally hosted solutions. Examples of the applications supported include Compliance Task Management System, Audit Management, Error and Incident Tracking (Risk), Venminder (Vendor Management) MFN Machine, Compliance Review Tracker, Daily Restricted List, Compliance Video Training, Mantas Anti-Money Laundering, Trade Surveillance, Electronic Communication Governance, Star Compliance and Worksite/Document Management System. 

Role Description

The Business Analyst is a key role for our firm providing business analysis and product management services specifically for our Legal, Compliance, Audit, and Risk Management technologies. The Candidate will be responsible for the Legal Discovery process, and collecting and documenting business requirements, working with internal development teams, managing product and project lifecycles, managing relevant technology vendor relationships, and will serve as the subject matter expert for all applications he/she is responsible for.  This Candidate will work closely with business users, from the Legal and Compliance, Audit, and Risk departments, and will interact with internal Technology teams to implement, enhance, and maintain systems and processes.

Key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to

Manage and fulfill the Legal Discovery processServe as a Business Analyst / Product Owner for Legal and compliance, Audit, and Risk departments.Partner w/ senior stakeholders across business, IT, data & quality assurance teams to define enterprise technology solutions & workflow strategy.Conduct business analysis by analyzing complex problems & designing system solutions.Capture business requirements & translate them into IT & system specifications.Improve business processes using tools including MS Excel, Excel macros, MS Access, Visio, SQL database, and others.Research, plan and execute projects including acquisition, upgrading and maintenance of both hardware and software. The scope of the projects could include both the development of new software and significant enhancements/changes to existing pieces of software.Manage third party vendor system implementations as well as in-house systems and ensure timely and effective project delivery.Track all ongoing projects and communicate their status in a timely manner to stakeholders.Develop and manage centralized plan for deliveries based on the business need.Identify and actively manage risks. Ensure the appropriate technology controls are in place.Vendor management of vendor applications. This includes managing the relationship, service level agreements and total cost of ownership.Provide technical support, consulting, training and problem-solving to business users.Establish and document operational and trouble-shooting procedures for use by local technical support personnel.Monitor system performance to ensure system availability and functionality.

What makes this role unique or interesting

This individual will play a leading role in the evolution of the firm’s Legal & Compliance, Audit, and Risk Management technologies and processes.   The candidate will have direct exposure to senior business and technology stakeholders across the firm.

Professional development value of this role

The candidate will have internal and external training opportunities in both technical and leadership areas.  The candidate will also have exposure to business and other technology groups for future career opportunities.  

Job Qualifications (The ideal candidate should have the following)

Qualifications, Experience, Education

Minimum 3 years of Business Analysis and Project/Product Management experience.Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related area.2 years of focus in Legal and Compliance, Audit, or Risk related technology experience preferred3 years of Financial Industry experience preferredCommunication:  Speak and write English clearly. Excellent communication (verbal and written) and influencing skills. Strong history of partnership with business stakeholders. Client focused with a strong sense of ownership and follow-through

Skills

Executive presence and high energyProject managementFunctional knowledge of SQL & Relational DatabasesAbility to structure ambiguous business problems and partner with IT to recommend technology solutionsClient focused with a strong sense of ownership and follow-throughSkilled in building and managing relationships with business management and key stakeholders that may be remote.Experience in taking products through the Software Development Lifecycle from start to finishPersistence:  Demonstrate tenacity and enthusiasm to accomplish tasks. Detail-oriented and deadline driven with proven ability to multi-task across projectsProactivity Anticipate needs and act without being told what to do. Bring new ideas to the company. Solution oriented, proactive and team spiritedEfficiency:  Prioritize and produce significant output with minimal wasted effort.Organization and planning: Plan, organize, schedule, budget and implement consistent with established goals. Excellent organization skillsFollow-through on commitments: Live up to verbal and written agreements, budgets and schedules.Propensity to learn new areas of the business, processes, and applications quicklyExcellent problem solving and analytical capabilities. Demonstrated ability to analyze facts, identify issues and represent findings and ideas with clear well thought out visual representations using Visio diagrams and PowerPoint presentations.Proven ability to work independently as well as with multiple cross-functional teams spanning both business and other technology groups

Pune, India