Insight Investment is looking for a senior-level Product Analyst to join the Investment Solutions product team in London as we look to provide automation and efficiency to our portfolio management platform.
As a Product Analyst within the team, the individual must be able to face off to both business and technology stakeholders, applying an organised and proactive approach. Tasks range from business requirement gathering and documentation, writing user stories, testing, handover to IT support teams, and occasionally, ad-hoc query handling and support tasks.
Role Responsibilities
- Work with the Product Owner and the business to develop and detail the product backlog in the form of epics and stories describing problems and expected outcomes, running refinement sessions with the development team
- Mentor the existing junior Product Analyst on the team
- Assist the Development Lead, by providing support to the Developers and Testers on the team
- Act as a communication channel between product owners, business owners and the development team
- Contribute to the planning and execution of system and acceptance testing
- Undertake documentation to support the team’s sprint activities
- Build and maintain a good working relationship with the business representatives, working across teams and multiple sites
Experience Required
- Excellent working knowledge of fixed income instruments and derivatives, including pricing, analytics and trading and uses in portfolio management
- Asset Management Industry experience, in a Portfolio Management Front Office role
- Ability to apply suitable analytical approaches to requirements discovery, documentation and collaborative solution delivery
- Capture of user stories and artifacts in JIRA, Confluence and Mural
- Use of AI to capture and create stories to accelerated delivery where possible
- Skills in collecting and interpreting data, analysing results to identify patterns and trends in data
- Competent working with data, ideally through REST APIs through Swagger, GraphQL and SQL
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and management experience with the ability to effectively communicate at a level and depth appropriate to the audience
- Demonstrable experience of gathering requests and technical specifications
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams using Scrum or Kanban, including participation in different Scrum ceremonies
- A sense of personal responsibility and the drive to own problems, can work self-directed and independently to accomplish results
- Provides assistance to developers and testers of the team. Pro-actively removing blockers to maximise team productivity
- Creates an environment where individuals are encouraged and supported to achieve their goals
- Promotes a positive team culture. Identifies and implements ways to improve teamwork. Builds effective relationships throughout the organisation
Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or other factors protected by federal, state and/or local laws. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected]
About Insight Investment
Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients' needs. Founded in 2002, Insight's collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities. Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: https://www.insightinvestment.com/corporate/
Skills Required
- Excellent working knowledge of fixed income instruments and derivatives, including pricing, analytics, trading, and portfolio management uses
- Asset management industry experience in a portfolio management front-office role
- Ability to apply analytical approaches to requirements discovery, documentation, and collaborative solution delivery
- Experience capturing user stories and artifacts in JIRA, Confluence, and Mural
- Experience using AI to capture and create stories
- Skills in collecting and interpreting data and analyzing patterns and trends
- Competence working with data through REST APIs, Swagger, GraphQL, and SQL
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills
- Experience gathering requests and technical specifications
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams using Scrum or Kanban
- Ability to work independently, take ownership, and resolve problems proactively
- Experience supporting developers and testers and removing delivery blockers
- Ability to mentor team members and promote positive team collaboration
What We Do
Insight* is one of Europe’s largest investment managers** responsible for £626.2bn/€757.3bn*** in assets under management (AUM) across fixed income, risk management strategies including liability-driven investment (LDI) and currency risk management, absolute return and multi-asset capabilities. Based in London, Insight is a specialist asset manager with a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. Our clients include pension funds, corporates, local authorities, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers, financial institutions and supranationals. Insight's mission is to offer investors a different approach to achieving their investment goals; one that prioritises the certainty of meeting their chosen objectives in contrast to the traditional focus on maximising return and minimising volatility. Read our mission statement here: www.insightinvestment.com/uk/introducing-insight/our-mission-statement/ We believe responsible investment means helping our clients achieve their desired outcomes and reflecting their priorities. We aim to identify, assess and manage factors that we deem to be financially material, while also reflecting our clients’ sustainability preferences. We were a founding signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2006. For more on Insight’s approach to responsible investment, visit https://www.insightinvestment.com/investing-responsibly Posts are intended for UK/EU professional investors only. Capital at risk. *Insight is the corporate brand for certain companies operated by Insight Investment Management Limited (IIML). **IPE, ‘Top 500 Asset Managers’ survey, June 2024. Insight is ranked fifth out of the top 120 European institutional managers by total AUM for external Europe-domiciled institutional clients. ***As at 31 December 2024. AUM are represented by the value of cash securities and other economic exposure managed for clients.
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