Business Analyst - Platform Soutions

The Role: The Platform Solutions team assesses designs and improves the firm’s operating models to support current and future products. It considers how functions and systems align with product needs, identifies gaps and opportunities, and drives solutions to enable scalable growth within WorldQuant Millenium Advisors, a joint venture between WorldQuant and Millennium.

Reporting to the Global Head of Platform Solutions, this person will run the guideline monitoring function, support the operational evaluation of prospective and new products, assist with vendor initiatives, and provide business analysis and project management across related projects. More detailed role responsibilities include:

• Support product onboarding for guideline monitoring, including rule interpretation, documentation, and testing within the guideline monitoring platform.
• Support day-to-day guideline monitoring and reporting, including maintaining rules, report distribution, facilitation of breach review and resolution, and compliance reporting.
• Produce reporting and analysis for compliance, performance & attribution, strategy, and related areas.
• Analyze how functions and systems support products to identify gaps, risks and optimization opportunities.
• Support vendor-related activities, including requirements gathering and coordination.
• Generate, review, and validate portfolio statistics
• Provide project management support including organizing meeting materials and tracking key objectives.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting or similar analytical discipline
• 2-5 years of relevant experience in a financial services industry role (e.g., Ops, Product)
• Strong skills in requirements gathering, workflow building; experience with vendor management is helpful.
• Ability to engage across many workstreams, operate well under tight deadlines with high detail orientation
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders
• Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint; experience with process mapping tools (e.g., MS Visio)

Position based in Mumbai, India