Senior Business Analyst - Parametric

ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com. ABOUT PARAMETRIC Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings. This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 2-3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week. ABOUT THE TEAM The Platform Solution Management team at Parametric is responsible for defining and enabling cross-platform business solutions that meet the needs of clients over time. Solutions are products, services or systems that provide value to the client, whether internal or external to the PPA enterprise. Sitting at the intersection of business, client and technology, we collaborate with multiple teams to understand solution context and define the solution vision, roadmap and capability set. ABOUT THE ROLE The Senior Business Analyst will partner closely with the Platform Solution Management team and with technology teams on solutions from inception through ongoing maintenance. This position will play a pivotal role in providing analysis, including extensive data analysis, support from ideation to implementation of new technology and processes, including workflow, operational process, systems and data flow design for Parametric. This position will lead business and functional requirements gathering, analysis and documentation, including workflows, wireframes, user stories, acceptance criteria, data mapping, data flows, assistance with user testing and where applicable, processes and procedures documentation. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES - Communicate effectively - both verbally and written - to peers, business and technology partners to include strong questioning and listening skills and the ability to look beyond obvious answers to understand impacts. - Interview business/other solution management counterparts to effectively draw out and articulate the business need/problem/ opportunity to be addressed. Provide scaled options for implementation based on the business need. - Gather and analyze requirements. Organize and document business needs to enable design and development, including elicitation and documentation of current state and future state workflows, user stories, acceptance criteria, data mapping and UI wireframes. - Elicit and document processes and procedures, as well as partner in preparing training and adoption materials - Lead and influence cross-functional teams. - Provide consultation to development team and product owner for business facing application enhancements. - Create test cases, coordinate user acceptance testing and verify production completeness.