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VN-9671

Permanent

1 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AA

Competitive + Benefits + Bonus

25 November 2018

LGIM is looking for an experienced Business Analyst to work in the Nexus IT team which is responsible for implementation, enhancement and maintenance of applications used for portfolio management and trading within LGIM. This includes applications directly used by portfolio managers and traders and also by those teams that directly support the investment process such as Portfolio Monitoring and Global Analytics

The BA will be required to identify business requirements, define and document the operating model associated with the service and support the technical delivery. The BA will work closely with the project manager for each initiative and the Head of Nexus Change Management within LGIM.

The ideal candidate will possess the right balance of business understanding and technical skills. The role requires knowledge and experience gained through working on IT projects with investment teams in an asset management firm. Knowledge of a variety of buy side applications is preferred.

The candidate must be self-motivated and be able to work effectively within a matrix management environment.  Excellent communications skills are a pre-requisite.

Analysis

  • Production of Business Requirements Documents for the project.
  • Agreement of the business requirements with the business and with the developers assigned to the project.
  • Production of Data Requirements Documents for the project.
  • Definition of Target Operating Model documents and diagrams for the analytics service.
  • Delivery of Use Cases and Activity Diagrams for all order lifecycle and trading activities.
  • Estimation of the time to carry out analysis tasks.
  • Contribution to project business cases, project briefs, presentations etc as directed by the project manager.
  • Providing analysis on defects and changing requirements as projects progress, ensure such defects and/or changes are tracked on defect tracking system.

Testing

  • Ensuring that business analysis requirements are reflected correctly as test conditions within the test control application.
  • Support of both the QA IT team and end users in executing such tests.
  • Ensuring that once a project is complete, test conditions are reassigned to Regression test pack for applications via the QA team.

Project Closure

  • Ensure that lessons learnt on analysis from Project Closure Reports or Agile Retrospectives are communicated to all analysts in the department.

Support

  • Provide 3rd line support, as appropriate, following implementation.

Academic Qualifications

  • Graduate calibre, although degree not essential.

Technical and Professional Qualifications

  • Ideally IMC, or other qualifications or courses demonstrating an interest in the business.
  • Demonstrated history of learning, particularly in the front office environment.  For example, conferences or specific training courses relating to front office.

Experience and Background

  • Must have worked in a fund management company as a business analyst supporting teams who use risk analytics, for example, portfolio managers, traders and Investment Risk analysts.
  • Demonstrated ability to estimate the time taken to carry out analysis tasks, and meet the time estimated.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop excellent requirements documents.
  • Demonstrated ability to contribute to the execution of test plans.
  • Demonstrated ability to engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently with users to define concepts or under the direction of project managers.
  • Must be able to demonstrate a collaborative approach with developers and subject matter experts to establish the approach to projects, and ensure good communication of requirements.

Competence and Characteristics

  • Communication: Must be able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
  • Challenging: Must be able to demonstrate the ability to drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully implement plans
  • Attention to Detail: Must be able to demonstrate the ability to drill into analysis, using interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, scenarios, workflow analysis, in order to ensure a thorough understanding of the problem and proposed solution.
  • Analysis: Must be able to demonstrate critical evaluation of information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests for the underlying true needs.

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days' holiday, private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

About L&G

Legal & General Investment Management is one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor, with total assets of GBP 957 / EUR 1,090 / CHF 1,191 billion*. We work with a wide range of global clients, including pension schemes, sovereign wealth funds, fund distributors and retail investors

Throughout the past 40 years we have built our business through understanding what matters most to our clients and transforming this insight into valuable, accessible investment products and solutions. We provide investment expertise across the full spectrum of asset classes including fixed income, equities, commercial property and cash. Our capabilities range from index-tracking and active strategies to liquidity management and liability-based risk management solutions.

*as at 30 June 2017, including derivative positions and advisory assets. These figures include assets managed by LGIMA, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor.

About the business area

LGIM manages fixed income, equity, multi-asset, liability-driven investment, property and alternative solutions on behalf of its clients. Located across the globe, our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. In order to meet the complex and evolving investment needs of our clients, we focus on remaining at the forefront of investment product innovation and maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

About L&G

Legal & General Investment Management is one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor, with total assets of GBP 957 / EUR 1,090 / CHF 1,191 billion*. We work with a wide range of global clients, including pension schemes, sovereign wealth funds, fund distributors and retail investors

Throughout the past 40 years we have built our business through understanding what matters most to our clients and transforming this insight into valuable, accessible investment products and solutions. We provide investment expertise across the full spectrum of asset classes including fixed income, equities, commercial property and cash. Our capabilities range from index-tracking and active strategies to liquidity management and liability-based risk management solutions.

*as at 30 June 2017, including derivative positions and advisory assets. These figures include assets managed by LGIMA, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor.

About the business area

LGIM manages fixed income, equity, multi-asset, liability-driven investment, property and alternative solutions on behalf of its clients. Located across the globe, our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. In order to meet the complex and evolving investment needs of our clients, we focus on remaining at the forefront of investment product innovation and maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.