Business Analyst Responsible Investments PMI

Are you a tech-savvy Business Analyst who is eager to work in a changing environment with a strong affinity for financial data, investment management, business processes and interacting closely with the investment desks using state of the art technologies? Are you a stickler for getting things right? Do you have a knack for analyzing business processes? Do you know how to solve problems and manage projects efficiently? Then let’s talk!

The role

We are a dynamic and international team within APG Asset Management’s Data Office who serve the Responsible Investment Domain in providing strategic solutions using a modern Data Platform with the objective to support investment strategies to achieve the best returns for our clients in relation to their ESG specific requirements. Currently we are onboarding new use cases in the Responsible Investment domain on APG Asset Management’s Data Platform (Databricks). This entails locking down requirements in terms of internal and external data sources, end data product deliverables, business logic and metadata aspects. The team is part of APG’s recently established Data Office within COO.

What you would do

Do you want to contribute to the design and build the next generation investment solutions using the latest technologies? Are you confident at iteratively refining user requirements and removing any ambiguity? Do you have a curious nature, always interested in how to innovate and make the best use of data management technologies in serving business needs?

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst professional who can help us with the following:

• Articulate business needs and problem statements, translate these into clear requirements and acceptance criteria and ensure alignment with stakeholders before any technical solutioning begins. Consequently, ensure engineers receive well defined problems, enabling them to design the best-fitting solutions.
• Execute against product vision and the overall (PMI) Data Products roadmap; manage and own significant pieces of project deliverables end-to-end from the initial demand, all the way to testing the agreed solution and working with business stakeholders in delivering to production.
• Develop understanding of ingested data sets, metadata metrics and appropriate data models. The role of the BA is to support the engineers with business context, fully explore and articulate interdependencies on roadmap components and validate that the technical solution fulfills the acceptance criteria.
• Act as a linking pin between the team members in Data Office, Technology Office, investment desks and ensure business requirements are accurately represented in the proposed architecture through collaboration with engineers and architects to validate that solutions meet business objectives.
• Represent the team in different stakeholder meetings including MDTs. Collaborate with business stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and support teams and the organization to remove roadblocks.
• Provide documentation of processes and business requirements.
• Take on project management tasks and services.