Principal, Business Analyst
$120,000–$225,000 year
Hybrid · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
The Principal Business Analyst will drive the evolution and support of the risk platform, requiring deep domain expertise in risk management, strong analytical and communication skills, and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience. Key responsibilities include acting as the lead business analyst for the risk platform, enhancing risk data quality, collaborating with technology teams to deliver risk-related features, and supporting production systems as a subject matter expert. Candidates should have practical understanding of financial instruments, excellent communication skills, strong analytical abilities, and experience in writing requirements and specifications. Familiarity with SQL, Python, and software development life cycles is advantageous.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years’ experience as a business systems analyst in the financial services industry, with a focus on risk management
- Practical understanding of financial instruments including stocks, bonds, swaps, options, futures, forwards, asset-backed securities, and mortgages
- Practical understanding of derivatives valuation and risk management approaches
- Experience working with risk and analytics vendors (e.g., Yield Book, Bloomberg, Point)
- Exposure to vendor valuation libraries and applications (e.g., Numerix, Calypso, FinCad)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
- Proven ability to build strong relationships with business partners and drive consensus across teams
- Experience writing requirements, functional specifications, use cases, and test plans
- Self-motivated and able to thrive in a fast-paced, result-oriented environment
- Experience supporting critical production applications
- Solid understanding of the software development life cycle
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with investment data concepts such as holdings, transactions, security master, analytics, and performance
- Strong knowledge of fixed income risk analytics, including duration, convexity, spread measures, and scenario analysis
- Creative, innovative, and focused on continuous improvement
- Hands-on knowledge of SQL and relational database technology
- Working knowledge of Python is a strong plus
- Familiarity with Java is a plus
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