Securities Services - Pricing & Billing Associate

The Pricing & Billing Team is a dedicated team of project and client facing resources focused on large scale change initiatives to address billing and pricing business requirements across Securities Services.  The group provides a unique mix of project skills, product experience & discipline enabling it to provide a consistent, high-quality and responsive approach to manage and execute change across the firm.

The Associate will be responsible for driving data analytics, coordinating with billing partners to determine execution/planning approach and constructing/delivering outbound communication channels to stakeholders to ensure buy in & commitment to expedite cross product efforts focused on streamlining both the Billing operations and the Technology landscape.

Job Responsibilities :

• Define end to end business processes, conduct gap analysis and partner with stakeholders to  deliver optimum business solutions
• Create and review the Test Plan which will include but not limited to UAT Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Test Coverage (including entry and exit criteria), Test Strategy, Test Methods, Test Responsibilities
• Execute test scripts
• Provide training on best practices and industry wide standardized Testing approaches
• Assist in the delivery of monthly/quarterly reporting on the testing results and SOP documentation uplifts where necessary
• Support management in performing feasibility checks and proof of concepts for non-traditional projects
• Actively seek and  participate in process improvement and data remediation efforts across projects
• Perform end to end User Acceptance, Regression & Functional Testing
• Track and document test results inclusive of defect management (identification and analysis of defects, partnering with key stakeholders to ensure timely bug resolution)
• Develop efficiency tools to assist with test scripts and testing automation
• Build competency assessment tests for testers

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills :

• Bachelor’s Degree and/or Graduate Degree in Engineering/ Statistics/ Management
• 2-4  years relevant experience in Software Development Life Cycle management (requirements analysis, test design, test preparation, test execution and defect management)
• Ability to identify and analyse problems and propose effective corrective solutions to meet business, and/or system requirements
• Ability to extract data from firm-wide systems and tools and implement data analysis techniques to conduct complex analysis and derive tangible business insights
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (SharePoint, Word, Advanced Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Experience in project management is preferred
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus
• Experience in Visual Basic Application, SQL is a plus
• Knowledge/ Exposure to Big Data is a plus

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills :

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills 
• Detail oriented, organized and pro-active
• Ability to work both independently and as a team in a fast paced production environment with minimal supervision
• Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills
• Excellent stakeholder and client relationship management skills
• Champions continuous process improvements and proactively support knowledge sharing
• Creates an environment that fosters and supports thought leadership, innovation and creative problem solving