Business Analyst

Overview: Colmore, a Preqin company, is a market-leading, technology-driven private markets investor services business focused on the Limited Partner and Allocator market. The business operates from four offices located in New York and Dallas in the US, and London and Birmingham in the UK. Colmore employs more than 270 professionals, with the business monitoring over 3,000 private market funds and 40,000+ holdings. Responsibilities: The Business Analyst (BA) role spans across a number of cross-functional business units. Working with internal and external stakeholders to define, document and assist in the delivery of business requirements in relation to client implementations. You’ll support across a wide variety of projects related to Colmore’s service offering, particularly around our technology platforms. BA’s at Colmore ensure that detailed processes and technically driven requirements are captured in fine detail, whilst maintaining a strong product knowledge, technical background and a hands-on responsibility for project deliverables.
In this role you will

• Establish effective working relationships with operations, project, and engineering teams.
• Elicit and document business requirements from internal stakeholders (Colmore’s business units) as well as Colmore’s client base, reaching formal agreements for project deliverables alongside the PMO.
• Become a “super-user” of Colmore’s technology platforms and proprietary data models/structures, acting as a bridge between business needs and technical specifications.
• Assist in the definition and design of custom reporting and data output solutions for all areas of Colmore’s business, providing documentation for business and technical stakeholders.
• Provide stakeholder training and support during the embedding of new systems and processes.

Qualifications:

• You have experience in requirements elicitation and documentation in a Business Analyst role or similar.
• You possess an analytical approach to your work with an understanding of data management principals including SQL Language.
• You can identify redundant tasks, bottlenecks, and opportunities for process improvement.
• You thrive from working in a high pace, evolving, Agile environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• You’re competent in using technologies such as Jira and Confluence.
• You have an understanding of finance, accounting concepts and terminology, though this is preferred and not mandatory.

Other: Company Benefits:

• 25 days Annual Leave and 8 Public/Bank Holidays – pro rata for part-time employees
• Group Pension Scheme – matched pension contribution scheme, minimum contribution 5%, maximum company contribution is 10% of your annual salary.
• Private medical insurance, health cash plans, will writing and employee assistance program
• Group life insurance (4x annual salary)
• Business & personal travel insurance
• Anniversary Awards and other awards program
• Employee Referral Program
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Company funded social budget.
• Study support

Our culture and values are:
Be Customer obsessed
We exist for our customers. We listen to them and understand their challenges. We design best-in-class data solutions for their success.

Act with integrity
We build trust through honesty and transparency. We’re committed to doing the right thing for our customers, our company, and each other.

Own your success
We’re a high-performance team. We challenge and champion each other in our pursuit of excellence. We never stop learning and strive to become experts in our fields

Think forward
We lead the industry through innovation. We foster collaboration and creativity to solve our clients’ next challenge and give them a competitive advantage.

Make an impact
We drive positive change as individuals, and as a company. We’re passionate about creating a better tomorrow for our industry and our communities.
Training and Development: Colmore offers comprehensive technical and leadership training to all Analysts. Our initial training is provided in the first few weeks of joining us and provides you with up-to-date technical and industry knowledge, coupled with leadership and people management skills. At Colmore we want to grow with our employees by helping to fully develop their talents and abilities. Employees are encouraged to study for appropriate professional qualifications and to attend course that enable them to perform their job more effectively. Equal Opportunities at Colmore: The Company is an equal opportunities employer, and we actively promote an environment that harnesses diversity in the workplace. We believe every member on our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions.