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State Street · 14 hours ago

State Street Alpha Transaction Management Implementation Lead, Vice President

Boston, Massachusetts

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$110K/yr - $189K/yr

10+ years exp

State Street is a global leader in financial services, and they are seeking a qualified Client Implementation Lead to support their comprehensive front-to-back client servicing platform. This leadership role involves facilitating end-to-end integration for clients across various asset classes and ensuring successful project delivery.

BankingFinanceFinancial Services

Responsibilities

Oversee due diligence activities to ensure a thorough understanding of client requirements and operational environments

Identify gaps in current operating models and drive the design of client solutions, including trade and architecture flows, operational processes, and business system functionality

Manage the implementation and onboarding plan, including project timelines, conversion strategies, and post-go-live activities for client onboarding and implementation projects

Analyze post go-live change requests, collaborating with all stakeholders to define solutions, supervise testing, and oversee deployment in the live production environment

Drive the delivery of cross-operations, high priority projects across all typical project phases

Work with external clients and portfolio managers to configure the Alpha platform for client-specific workflows

Project initiation and scoping- including plan definition and managing realistic expectations for successful delivery with project stakeholders

Manage business analysis and requirements definition

Support ongoing project management- including progress monitoring, reporting and quality assurance throughout the project

Build and manage strong relationships with project sponsors and stakeholders in Operations, Technology and the business, understanding competing priorities across these groups

Work with Operations business units to assess and streamline processes in order to mitigate risk, cost or service issues and generate efficiencies

Collaborate with other teams to share approaches, develop best practices and improve team capabilities to successfully migrate clients

Domestic and/or international travel may be required

Qualification

Transaction ManagementClient ImplementationData AnalysisFinancial Instruments KnowledgeAgile MethodologyMicrosoft PowerBIProject ManagementMS Office ProficiencyCommunication SkillsProblem-Solving SkillsAttention to Detail

Required

10+ years of industry experience with front, middle, and back office integration, functionality, and electronic trading platforms

Strong understanding of Transaction Management Middle Office services and operating models; subject matter expertise in standard financial services static data as it applies to middle office trade processing

Strong knowledge of financial instruments and asset classes such as Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and structured products including TBAs and Repos

In-depth understanding and prior experience with industry utilities such as DTCC CTM, DTCC Alert, FX Connect, other Middle Office vendor applications, and messaging protocols like XML and SWIFT

Proven history of understanding and analyzing complex client use cases and large data sets; ability to create visual dashboards using tools such as Microsoft PowerBI

Expertise in Power Query for data transformation, cleansing, preparation, and integration from multiple sources and formats

Ability to interpret client requirements and translate those requirements into State Street-specific data configuration tasks

Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills; attention to detail and organization – able to independently troubleshoot and gather supporting evidence

Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently and prioritize work accordingly

Expertise in MS Office, including MS Visio, Project, and PowerPoint

Competency in SDLC & Agile Methodology and tools (i.e., JIRA, Rally, RTC)