Business Analyst, CoStar Risk Analytics

Job Description

Business Analyst, CoStar Risk Analytics

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.  
 
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.  

CoStar Risk Analytics, located in Boston, MA, works with market participants across the commercial real estate (CRE) lending spectrum. Our solution provides lenders with the ability to better target business, appropriately price loans, make informed approval of credits, actively manage their portfolio with robust stress testing and surveillance measures, assess refinance risk and execute with a disciplined framework. Our clients include both public and private lenders, ranging from commercial banks and financial institutions to pension funds and insurance companies as well as government and rating agencies.

CoStar Risk Analytics is currently looking for is a Business Analyst to join the growing Boston based team. This individual will work together with Product Managers, Software Engineers, User Interface Designers and Web Developers. In this position, you'll have the chance to transform product concepts to features in our cutting-edge risk management solution for lenders.

This position is located in Boston, MA and offers the following schedule

•           4 days onsite / 1 day remote

Responsibilities:

• Elicit business needs and product requirements on a regular basis from stakeholders, including senior management team, client support team, sales team, and clients.
• Communicate business goals and product requirements clearly with technical team
• Collaborate with senior management team and technical team leads to form the decisions on project work scope and priorities.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements with comprehensive documentation of functional specifications, use cases, user stories, and workflows.
• Work closely with technical team under the agile project management to ensure development process proceeds as expected, identify issues and find optimal solutions.
• Collaborate with design team to create product UI designs
• Collaborate with QA team to create and implement effective test plan and regression testing procedure for product features and bug fixes to ensure adherence to user acceptance and quality standards.
• Monitor product daily operations to identify and report bugs.
• Evaluate product performance to identify areas for future enhancements.
• Analyze product usage to measure the success of product value delivery.
• Conduct market research on technology innovations in product development to maintain the product competitiveness.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business Analytics, Data Science, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related fields from an accredited, not-for-profit University or College.
• Aptitude for technology and ability to communicate between the business and technical team

Preferred Qualifications:

• A master’s degree in a related field
• Evidence of strong academic performance in college
• Experience in product life-cycle management
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Experience in financial or analytic products used in related industries including banking, insurance, investment management, or accounting
• Experience in commercial real estate, banking or fixed-income investment
• Experience in SQL, Python, or .Net development languages
• Experience in working with Database technologies
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience in working within AWS or Azure Services
• Strong understanding of API technologies
• Demonstrated experience in requirements gathering, documentation, and communication
• Knowledge of data analysis and visualization tools including skills to develop analysis queries and procedures in SQL, SAS, Microsoft Power BI or other business intelligence and analysis software

What’s in it for you?   

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.  We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.  

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):  

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug  
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance  
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family  
• Commuter and parking benefits  
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions  
• Employee stock purchase plan  
• Paid time off  
• Tuition reimbursement  
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent) 
• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups  
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks  

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.  

This position offers a base salary range of $74,900-$104,800, based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous benefits plan.

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing