Technical Business Analyst - Meredith Brown Associates

Our client, a highly regarded Investment firm with circa $80 of AUM is looking to hire a

Technical Business Analyst to join Transformation Office and play a key role in the delivery of a complex portfolio of investment management projects. This role sits at the intersection of business, product, and technology, requiring strong technical curiosity coupled with structured analysis, delivery ownership and confident stakeholder engagement.

Role & Responsibilities

1. Lead delivery of one or more workstreams in a complex, multi-functional global transformation programme through the complete SDLC, including vendor management.
2. Manage stakeholder expectations around progress, requirements gathering, solution definition, constraints, risks, and dependencies clearly and proactively.
3. Work with business owners to extract and formally document process flows, business rules, and detailed requirements.
4. Research, analyse, and produce impact assessments across teams, systems, and processes.
5. Apply a broad range of Business Analysis tools and techniques to ensure clarity, completeness, and shared understanding.
6. Shape business case for major technology spend coordinating with business stakeholders.
7. Work closely with vendor and technology teams to:
8. Document functional designs and sequence diagrams.
9. Define work breakdown structures.
10. Clearly articulate what needs to be built and tested.
11. Shape and contribute to innovative, practical solution designs.
12. Integrate business and technical perspectives into a coherent end-to-end solution vision.
13. Identify and communicate technical constraints, risks, and dependencies impacting delivery.

Background & Experience

1. Approximately 7-10 years’ experience as a Technical Business Analyst, Project Manager, or hybrid PM/BA or product owner in a technology or software delivery environment.
2. Experience in Alternatives is a must – understanding of hedge funds, private equity, private debt, secondaries, co-investments, etc. workflows and operations is critical. Exposure to public markets (equities, fixed income, derivatives) is limited.
3. Hands-on delivery experience on projects involving eFront, Charles River, Burgiss Caissa (now MSCI private markets), Thinkfolio, Simcorp, Addepar, etc.
4. Large project experience through full SDLC, adept at Agile software delivery.
5. Implementation experience from a technology consultancy or in a product owner capacity is valuable.
6. The ability to engage and communicate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders of all levels, and coordinate teams of business users and technical staff across multiple locations.
7. A curious and analytical approach with the ability to identify areas for process improvements or improving business functionality.

Please note that due to the high volume of applicants responding to our adverts we are regrettably not able to feedback on all applications; only successful candidates will be contacted