Alpha Cash Services Product Owner / Analyst - Vice President at State Street in Boston, Massachusetts

Job description

• State Street Middle Office product team is seeking a versatile individual in a Vice President role with strong product development, product life cycle management and business analysis skills to lead the development and support of services and product offerings within Middle Office Cash Services team. This qualified individual will develop and deliver products, business solutions, and strategies aligned with our Middle Office Cash services product roadmap, will collaborate with cash product implementation, product partners and E2E solutions for the success in product execution and adoption. This leader will be expected to build relationships and collaborate with both business stakeholders and technology partnership order to contribute to the timely execution of long term strategic plans for building out sophisticated intra company solutions.
• State Street brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. We partner with clients to optimize their operations, data, and technology footprint by leveraging the our Platform and outsourced services. The successful candidate must be skilled in analyzing our complex business service flows across front, middle, and back office operating models for our Front & Middle Office Clients, with a focus on cash management and liquidity support services. They will also be driving the strategic solution design, business architecture, and business solutions/services while driving program/project execution and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Conduct market research to identify emerging trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape and generate innovative product ideas and concepts that address key market opportunities and challenges supporting Alpha cash service.
• Establish strong partnerships with internal stakeholders in Sales, Operations, Technology, Cash service product implementation, other product development service family and E2E architecture teams to influence and coordinate cross-functional business solutions and products, in support of client and business goals.
• Act as a liaison between business and technology teams to support product demand opportunities as part of product strategy and development.
• Possess strong knowledge of front-to-back Investment management/Investment services with focus on user digital experience.
• Work with business and technology partners to establish clear connections between business goals, strategies, and the data and technology investments required to achieve them
• Communicates recommendations to management/senior Alpha business leaders through effective written and oral communication.
• Assist with pricing strategies and product policies

Requirements

• Strategic thinker with strong business analysis and planning skills. Capable of identifying and interpreting wider-ranging issues: ‘Big picture’ understanding.
• Creation of business process flows and defining the business problem, solution, and design using various tools.
• Proven experience with business requirements analysis to meet critical business needs, must display an ability to drive tasks through to completion.
• Experience with design and optimization of user experience across different interfaces to maximize engagement and adoption
• Excellent time management and organization skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• Ability to think creatively and strategically with a focus on achieving outcomes. - Experience with writing features/requirements.
• Product Owner role experience using Agile Methodologies.
• Proven related financial services experience. Good understanding of State Street businesses.
• Demonstrate understanding of Operations processes and procedures and an ability to learn quickly.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, facilitation, presentation and negotiation skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office Products; MS Access, Visio; Jira, Confluence, PowerPoint. - Demonstrated excellence in business writing, development of business process flow diagrams, making comparisons regarding current and future processes, and effective communication.
• - Bachelor’s degree in finance, MIS, Information Technology, or a related field of study.
• - 12+ years of experience in data analysis, Operations, or Product management.
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Skills

Required

• Strategic thinking
• Creative and strategic thinking
• Ability to learn quickly
• MS Office Products
• MS Access
• Visio
• Jira
• Confluence
• PowerPoint

Benefits

• $110,000 - $188,750 Annual
• The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
• Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
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