As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
Opportunity snapshot:
The Enterprise Business Analyst will provide expert enterprise analysis and business process transformation capabilities to identify requirements and define solutions. They will have an enterprise-wide view of all strategic change initiatives, investigation solutions, apply business acumen and develop quality deliverables to support enterprise business and portfolio decisions. The opportunity will focus on the creation and introduction of frameworks, processes, recommendations to the business as we move to a more service focused approach.
Direct reports:
- N/A
Key accountabilities:
- Use information from the strategic plan, goals, and objectives to develop the future view of the business.
- Identify changes required to meet the business need by consideration of organisation structure, business functions, required knowledge and skills, processes and technology.
- Develop relevant artefacts including requirements, solution options and recommendations, investment analysis, impact assessment and other technical advice and business cases, incorporating architectural recommendations where required.
- Make connections with other initiatives in place, underway or planned across the enterprise that need to be considered.
- Actively identify and champion innovation initiatives supporting the business strategy,
- Recommend and participate in the design and implementation of standards, tools, and methodologies.
- Share best practice, lessons learned and constantly updates understanding based on changing technologies, practice, and knowledge.
Role Responsibilities:
- Act as a trusted adviser to senior business leaders on strategic alignment, business planning and analysis.
- Demonstrate thought leadership through the development of strategic recommendations and identification of key risk areas.
- Lead development and implementation of internal initiatives that align disaggregated processes and approaches to change delivery.
- Perform business analysis tasks on the most complex projects, and/or coordinate tasks across programmes with a team of project BA’s.
- Identify solution options which will meet the business need, then evaluate feasibility, to determine the best solution approach.
- Assist portfolio management in defining portfolio/project scope, resource demand, benefits, and risks during the discovery phase; may lead discovery efforts.
- Work with architects and other ICT groups to ensure that system architectures meet the needs of the enterprise to deliver on the business capabilities.
- Ensure the business is aware of emerging trends, practice and technologies in the marketplace and how they may contribute to business outcomes and strategies.
- Collaborate with other Analysts and functions across SS&C to improve practices and drive consistency.
- Actively manage the engagement between divisions and collaborate with all appropriate Enterprise leaders to this end.
- Provide input and information for new business opportunities which may include completing client workshops and/or presentations.
- Provide data to inform the prioritisation of initiatives across SS&C’s portfolio of work whilst aligning to the growth strategy.
Prior knowledge, skills, and competence:
- Ideally 10+ years Financial Services and Delivery experience (e.g., Asset Servicing – BPO, Unit Registry, Custodian, Fund Accounting, Funds Management, Superannuation, Pension Funds)
- Commercially astute, with a customer focussed ‘can do’ attitude.
- Expertise in facilitation and collaboration at senior levels, generating information and analysis, selling new approaches and concepts, and steering debates towards pragmatic solutions.
- Ability to assess the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment at an enterprise level.
- A flexible approach and responsiveness to new ideas and activities, demonstrated by willingness to take on new challenges, roles, and responsibilities.
- Demonstrated experience in the development of gap analysis and feasibility studies, requirement artefacts, risk analysis, cost impacts, business cases and delivery plans.
- Demonstrated experience with project development frameworks and methodologies.
Understanding of strategic and business planning and how this is refined down to implementing business change.
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
