Senior Business Analyst Asset Management

About the Role

Systems Arabia is seeking a Senior Lead Business Analyst – Asset Management to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time position requires strong experience in Asset/Investment Management. The successful candidate will independently lead complex business analysis across various domains, translating business needs into clear and implementable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end business analysis for complex Asset/Investment Management initiatives.
• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and manage business and functional requirements.
• Analyze business processes, data, systems, and workflows to identify gaps, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Define business rules, validations, controls, exception scenarios, and acceptance criteria.
• Gather and analyze data requirements, including data mapping and system/integration requirements.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and manage communication across business and technology teams.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), business validation, and solution sign-off.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, developers, vendors, and delivery teams.
• Provide domain expertise across portfolio management, investment operations, trade lifecycle, performance, reporting, valuation/NAV, reconciliation, and investment data.

Qualifications and Experience

• 8–12+ years of experience in Business Analysis, with significant hands-on experience in Asset/Investment Management.
• Strong understanding of Portfolio Management, Portfolio Accounting, Investment Operations, Order & Trade Lifecycle, Performance Measurement, Reporting, Valuation/NAV, and Reconciliation.
• Experience with Mutual Funds and/or Discretionary Portfolio Management (DPM) is preferred.
• Strong expertise in requirements elicitation, analysis, management, traceability, and change management.
• Strong data analysis and data mapping skills; SQL experience is highly desirable.
• Ability to conduct impact, dependency, and gap analysis, and translate business problems into implementable solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with platforms such as Advent APX, SimCorp, Charles River, Aladdin, Bloomberg AIM, FactSet, or similar platforms is an advantage.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, identify gaps, and independently drive analysis from problem definition through solution implementation.

Work Environment

This role is based in Riyadh and is a full-time position within Systems Arabia. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with various teams and stakeholders to deliver solutions in the Asset Management domain.