Senior Technical Business Analyst – Investment Management Front Office

About Vanguard

More than 45 years ago, John C. Bogle had a vision to start an investment company that did things differently. A company with no external shareholders. Where all the profits were invested back into the business and used to lower costs. Evidently, it was as bold as it was brilliant. To this day, Vanguard Group still has no external shareholders. That means no share prices to protect, and no profits to generate for outside owners. 

Today, Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies, serving more than 50 million investors worldwide. For more than 25 years Vanguard Australia has been supporting individual investors, financial advisers, and superannuation members to achieve their long-term financial goals.

Team & Opportunity  

Join the Investment Management Platform team, a team of Product Mangers and Business Analysts, serving the global portfolio management and trading front office functions of Vanguard.   The team utilizes deep understanding of business needs, comprehensive knowledge of financial market structures as well their knowledge of portfolio management and trading technologies and processes to provide innovative business technology solutions.    

This role will have dual focus of serving the needs of the Fixed Income desk in APAC and the establishment of new user experience focused capabilities.   

Core Responsibilities 

• The Fixed Income responsibilities require a deep knowledge of portfolio management and trading processes as well as how these are supported within the Aladdin portfolio management system.  The role will also include relationship management with Black Rock Solutions for the APAC region. 

• The user experience responsibilities will include analysis and design of new capabilities in human centered design and user satisfaction metrics capabilities. 

Broader responsibilities  

• Proactively analyses business and user needs and identifies, evaluates, and develops complex information systems to meet business requirements. Provides insight on the business implications of technology systems. 

• Provides senior level consulting services to internal business groups on process improvement projects designed to improve their business results. Formulates and defines the systems scope and objectives, based on user needs and emerging industry trends in investment and business systems technology. 

• Utilizes deep understanding of business needs to direct process improvement projects for internal business groups, aiming to improve key business results. Leads the design and testing of new or enhanced applications that align to the overall investment technology strategy. 

• Leads the implementation of business systems and software. Analyzes, defines, and documents existing systems logic challenges, and makes revisions to address business issues. 

• Monitors user experiences and feedback on the use of business applications, and makes enhancements to system productivity, as needed. Leads the collection, documentation, and maintenance of functional requirements and modeling. 

• Guides and advises less experienced crew. 

• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned. 

 
Qualifications 

• Five years business analysis experience in Investment Portfolio Management and/or Trading and Operational Management. Additional Five years related work experience preferred. 

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or Economics degree preferred. Graduate degree preferred. 

• CFA preferred. 

• Skills and experience in data analysis techniques and tools would be highly regarded. 

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard’s core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.