Hartford Investment Management Company (HIMCO) has been providing investment advice for over 35 years. With more than 130 investment professionals and over $95 billion in assets under management across the fixed income, equity and alternatives markets, we deliver tailored strategies to insurance, sub-advisory and other institutional clients.

About HIMCO IT

HIMCO IT defines technology strategy and execution roadmap delivering cutting edge solutions for Hartford Investment Management Company (HIMCO). Our highly specialized workforce coupled with professionalism and agility offers unique solutions for the business partners helping them compete in the marketplace and achieve top quartile business results.

Responsibilities

The Hartford Investment Management Company (HIMCO) IT Organization is seeking a Business Analyst (BA) located at our headquarters in Hartford, CT.  In this role, you will work closely with Technology and Investment professionals to develop solutions and deliver key capabilities to the business. With an understanding of Asset Management fundamentals, Agile practices, and business analysis you will work on a wide variety of initiatives to develop solutions supporting multiple functional areas (Portfolio Management, Trading, Research, Reporting and Operational teams). This is an opportunity for an individual with a passion for understanding business problems and developing creative solutions on business-critical systems.  The role will be responsible for conducting stakeholder interviews, requirement workshops, participating in backlog refinement sessions, interacting with Product Owners, end users, and other stakeholders to illicit, document and test new requirements, test and validate existing requirements. The BA will also be required to perform analysis and research using tools such as SQL, Tableau, PowerBI, SAP Business Objects, Excel VBA and Markit EDM.

Qualifications

• Exceptional analysis, problem identification and resolution skills.

• Ability to structure and drive working sessions that promote collaboration, achieve synergy and achieve desired outcomes.

• In-depth knowledge of investment products and services, securities processing, and information technology.

• Knowledge/Experience in the following disciplines is preferred: SQL, SSIS (or similar ETL Technology), Business Objects (or similar reporting tool), data warehousing architecture, and data modeling.

• Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to set and manage priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Ability to communicate effectively with business and technology colleagues at all organizational levels.

• Experience in Agile methodology including developing estimates, prioritizing deliverables and experience with Agile planning tools like Rally, JIRA, etc.

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 6+ years of professional experience

As a condition of your employment for HIMCO, you will be required to affirm to HIMCO’s Code of Ethics and understand that you will be required to comply with the disclosure of accounts, holdings and pre-clearance of trades for the accounts of you and your household family members as more fully described in the Code of Ethics Key Points.  If you will be deemed to be a “Covered Associate” under HIMCO’s Pay to Play Policy, you will also need to disclose all political contributions that you have given within the past 2 calendar years.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship

This role will offer a hybrid work schedule with a mix of days working in the office and from home.