Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a privately-held financial institution and has been a thought leader and solutions provider for almost 200 years. We serve the most sophisticated individuals and institutions with award-winning expertise in Investment Management, Private Banking, and Investor Services. Our 5,000 colleagues operate from 17 cities throughout North America, Europe and Asia..
BBH is committed to diversity, innovation and globalization. Our culture is driven by our goal to provide the best solutions and services to our clients and each other. Our Partnership structure creates a flat organization that promotes collaboration across all business lines. We believe that diverse ideas and the ability to come together globally across groups and borders are a competitive advantage. In order for all our teams to excel, members must trust each other and feel comfortable providing honest input from all perspectives.
This openness sparks innovation and agility, which adds to the entrepreneurial spirit and provides many more career opportunities for our staff. We are a group of high-performing, dedicated and caring professionals who believe that working together is the foundation for superior client service excellence.
As a BBH professional, your career path is yours to define. We take pride in our ability to retain our best employees. We help them manage their careers by moving top performers to new areas of BBH where their talents will make the greatest contribution. As soon as you walk through the doors at BBH, we provide you with the tools to help you succeed and grow your career.
Responsibilities:
We are building a team of Business Analysts with expertise from the fund accounting field to work closely with the business and support our market leading fund accounting platform (STAR). If you are successful in your application you will join an international team operating in multiple time zones, with a high level of expertise, drive, initiative and enthusiasm for their work.
- Take ownership of issue logs, project status documents, mapping specifications, test plans and test cases.
- Ensure current and accurate documentation of the solution is maintained.
- Create and execute test cases/scripts to validate new and existing functionality
- Create/Maintain support documentation for the client and internal support teams.
- Responsible for determining how changing business needs will affect the system and client. Describe the business need and potential solution in terms that both business and technical teams can understand.
- Analyze current Fund Accounting processes, identify gaps in workflows, research system defects and inefficiencies, and recommend and create new solutions to fill these gaps by leveraging Fund Accounting Business knowledge.
- Learn the STAR Fund Accounting system architecture and functionality, and be able to assess the feasibility of client requests
- Work with other systems groups within BBH as needed to assess downstream and client reporting impacts and perform comprehensive systems testing and end to end testing coordination
Qualifications:
- Ability to work independently and effectively exercise self discipline in keeping up with defined project milestones and deadlines
- Ability to understand the roles and functions of Fund Accountants
- Bachelor's degree preferred with 1 - 3 years experience from financial services industry knowledge and Fund Accounting experience preferred.
- Ability to stay calm under pressure and multitask effectively in a landscape of shifting priorities
- Ability to interpret business requirements to create clear and concise functional documents for enhancements to the STAR Fund Accounting system that can be understood by not only the business analyst team, but also the development team, quality assurance team, service delivery team and the end users.
- Knowledge and experience with Excel, PowerPoint, file transfer and Internet technologies.
- Superior level of English communications skills, both oral and written. Communicate concisely and with clarity, regardless of form. Strong listening and analytical skills, with close attention to detail.
- High level of Customer Service including exceeding the expectations of both internal and external clients. Embodies the BBH Tenets including respect and courtesy.
