Data Analyst
Seven Seven Software - newark, NJ
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Job description : Our Role: Prudential's Global Technology team is the SPARK that ignites the power of Prudential for our customers and employees worldwide. Our organization plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering customer-driven solutions across every area of the company. The Global Technology team is made up of diverse, agile-thinking, and highly skilled professionals; we use our combined capabilities to enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency. Your Impact: • Build new and existing as part of newly formed PGIM business. • Align with the business teams and rest of the PGIM teams in assessing business needs and transforming them into scalable applications. • Work closely with quantitate modeling team and portfolio managers. • Collaborate with business groups to define solutions to business needs. This includes eliciting, analyzing and documenting business requirements, identifying multiple approaches, making recommendations, and facilitating brainstorming and requirement walk-through sessions. • Partner with the Technology team. Analyzing and documenting systems / report design requirements which can include technical specifications, pseudo code, database table design, diagramming business process flows; to validate that the system solution meets the business need. • Conducting project related tests which include developing detailed test plans, test cases and expected results; conducting tests; evaluating and documenting results. • Develop subject matter expertise on the trading, performance/attribution and risk analytics platforms. • Provide on-going support and troubleshooting production and test issues to perform root cause analysis, reconciliations, recommending corrective action and leading the resolution efforts. • Taking deep analytical dives on data while being able to conceptualize, synthesize and critically evaluate gathered information, and communicate findings and recommendations. Job Requirements Your Required Skills: • Undergraduate (B.S.) degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or Information System is preferred. • Strong knowledge of Microsoft Power BI, Power Apps and Power pages is a must. • Strong data modelling skills and able to perform data cleaning, data processing and data analysis. • Minimum of 10+ years' experience in the Financial Industry. • Experience with Blackrock Aladdin is required. • Previous experience with Bloomberg data is a big plus. • Previous experience with reinsurance industry is a huge plus. • In-depth understanding of various Fixed Income instruments and their analytics, characteristics, and benchmarks with proven knowledge of Derivatives and its processes is required. • Candidate must have highly developed analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skill sets. Position requires the ability to quickly trouble shoot issues and think outside the box. • Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and connect the dots, as well as demonstrate drive, resourcefulness, and personal ownership of assignments. • Ability to work independently is critical, as is the ability to work effectively in a diverse team environment and actively participate in assessing impact of requested changes on existing processes. • Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and comfortable working with all levels of an organization's technology and business groups. • Proficient with MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio and PowerPoint. Prior experience with JIRA and Confluence is a plus. • Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience is preferred. • Must be highly proficient in data manipulation and writing SQL queries. • Hands-on experience with any investment / trading system, or performance attribution system is a plus. • Ability to manage small team or projects is highly desirable.
Created: 2024-11-05