State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors including investment servicing, investment management, market research and trading. With $28.4 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $2.48 trillion in assets under management State Street operates in 29 countries and more than 100 geographic markets and employs over 29,000 worldwide promoting a culture of excellence.
At the moment we are looking for candidates for
Senior Optimization Specialist, Officer
Location: Kraków, małopolskie
JOB ID: R-628293
to join the insource organization supporting the State Street EMEA
Why State Street Bank Poland?
Operating in Europe since 1970 State Street services clients in multiple locations. State Street Bank Poland was established in 2007 in Kraków. Today State Street Bank Poland employs over 2000 staff members at three sites across the city. Our Kraków office provides investment fund accounting and related services to clients of multiple State Street locations and business units across Europe. We offer positions in a challenging, rapidly changing and international environment. There are multiple opportunities to gain experience in diverse areas of the investment fund cycle. State Street offers a significant scope for personal growth and career progression. Throughout your career at State Street you will be provided with a wide range of training opportunities and internal mobility options as well as individual development plans, attractive benefits and an excellent remuneration package. The continuous development of our employees from day one is critical as we continually seek to develop and expand the local management team and create future leaders from within.
Operating in Europe since 1970 State Street services clients in multiple locations. State Street Bank Poland was established in 2007 in Kraków. Today State Street Bank Poland employs over 2000 staff members at three sites across the city. Our Kraków office provides investment fund accounting and related services to clients of multiple State Street locations and business units across Europe. We offer positions in a challenging, rapidly changing and international environment. There are multiple opportunities to gain experience in diverse areas of the investment fund cycle. State Street offers a significant scope for personal growth and career progression. Throughout your career at State Street you will be provided with a wide range of training opportunities and internal mobility options as well as individual development plans, attractive benefits and an excellent remuneration package. The continuous development of our employees from day one is critical as we continually seek to develop and expand the local management team and create future leaders from within.
Position Description
Work in a non-country aligned Fund Accounting business project team focused on building the best Operating Model possible.
Principal Tasks:
- Take a leading senior technical role in the review of current operational activities with a view to identifying opportunities for improvement;
- Participate as senior technical SME in the development, testing and implementation of new systems and products relating to the ongoing business transformation process. Provide regular progress reports and give feedback during project meetings;
- Act as senior central contact point for other key stakeholders with regard to providing technical data from an operational perspective;
- Contribute to analysis and planning of fund accounting Operating Model with the aim of standardizing processes and establishing best practice;
- Perform FTE and capacity analysis within fund accounting teams to identify optimization opportunities;
- Implement and execute on changes as required within business teams during implementation phase;
- Review existing and establish best practices around data collection for Key Performance Indicators of operational effectiveness;
- Analysis available data regarding end-to-end operational activity to identify pain points and opportunities for operational improvement;
- Gather data and live examples from operational teams to support identified opportunities;
- Work across country-specific business units to understand regional differences and support creation of standardized and harmonized approaches;
- Liaises with other internal clients and supporting departments for the purpose of obtaining key inputs to service delivery, resolving errors and discrepancies.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate the creativity needed to improve the fund accounting operating model using Beacon technology;
- Track the development of new technology, closing out gaps between legacy applications and Beacon services;
- Learn new tools as and when required;
- Test, or direct the testing of, new Beacon services to ensure no defects relative to legacy processes;
- Direct the implementation of new Beacon services into the accounting operating model, redrafting procedures as appropriate;
- Engage in non-country specific brainstorming sessions to help mold the future operating model for Fund Accounting in Poland;
Required Qualifications:
- Must have several years’ experience of Fund Accounting and NAV Production;
- Existing knowledge of core Beacon applications like MyNAV, eHzn TB, MyView expected;
- Project Management;
- Time Management;
- Effective Communicator;
- Creative Thinking;
We offer:
- Employee savings plan;
- Premium life insurance package;
- VIP medical package;
- International operating environment;
- Language classes;
- Soft skills trainings;
- Technical workshops;
- Development sessions with a mentor;
- Diversity of opportunities across a range of challenging and highly complex activities;
- Technical or leadership career pathway.
To apply to this position, follow the "apply now" link. To locate this position in our application page, please use the KEYWORD search functionality and insert either the State Street Job ID or the Location.
As a first step we ask all candidates to fill out our online application form. Please enclose the CV in English and remember to save this document without any Polish characteristics also in file name.
As a first step we ask all candidates to fill out our online application form. Please enclose the CV in English and remember to save this document without any Polish characteristics also in file name.
