Product Delivery Analyst
Product, IT
Boston, MA, USA
Product Delivery Analyst – Collateral Management & Securities Finance Technology
Manulife is seeking a highly motivated Product Delivery Analyst to join our Global Wealth and Asset Management (GWAM) technology team. This role sits at the intersection of business, technology, and capital markets, driving strategic initiatives across Collateral Management, Derivatives, Repo, and Securities Lending platforms.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving complex business challenges, and have a strong understanding of securities finance and derivatives workflows, this is an opportunity to make a direct impact on critical front-to-back office investment operations.
What You'll Do
As a key member of the product delivery team, you will partner with business stakeholders, operations teams, and technology teams to deliver innovative solutions that enhance collateral and securities finance capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Gather, analyze, and document business and system requirements for collateral, repo, securities lending, and derivatives initiatives.
- Translate business needs into high-quality user stories, functional requirements, workflow diagrams, and product specifications.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders, developers, business analysts, and quality engineers throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Support product roadmaps, backlog management, PI planning, and Agile delivery processes using Jira and Confluence.
- Perform workflow analysis and recommend process improvements, automation opportunities, and digital solutions.
- Lead functional, integration, and user acceptance testing activities to ensure successful deployment of new capabilities.
- Partner with front office, operations, and technology teams to streamline reporting, data management, and operational processes.
- Analyze data using SQL and Power BI to identify trends, measure outcomes, and support business decision-making.
- Coordinate implementation activities across business teams, technology partners, vendors, and offshore/onshore stakeholders.
- Investigate production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive resolution efforts.
- Leverage emerging AI-enabled productivity tools such as GitHub Copilot, Jira Rovo, Confluence AI, and prompt engineering techniques to improve delivery efficiency.
What We're Looking For
Required Experience
- Strong experience within Collateral Management, Derivatives, Repo, and Securities Lending environments.
- Solid understanding of Securities Finance operations and technology platforms.
- Experience gathering requirements and translating business needs into functional solutions.
- Hands-on experience creating business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and process workflows.
- Experience working within Agile delivery frameworks.
- Strong SQL skills with the ability to perform data analysis and validation.
- Experience supporting testing activities, including functional, integration, and UAT testing.
- Knowledge of upstream/downstream system integrations and data flows.
- Familiarity with Swift messaging and financial market workflows.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Power BI and data visualization tools.
- Knowledge of workflow automation and process digitization initiatives.
- Experience working with Jira, Confluence, Visio, and modern AI-assisted delivery tools.
- Exposure to investment management, capital markets, or asset management environments.
Key Competencies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Stakeholder management and relationship-building
- Requirements elicitation and business analysis
- Product delivery and Agile execution
- Communication and presentation skills
- Process improvement and workflow optimization
- Ability to influence and drive outcomes across cross-functional teams
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and changing priorities
Why Join Manulife?
At Manulife, you'll work on mission-critical solutions that support global investment operations while collaborating with talented professionals across business and technology. We foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, inclusion, and professional growth—empowering our employees to build better solutions and better careers.
Help shape the future of Collateral Management and Securities Finance technology while delivering impactful solutions for a leading global financial services organization.
The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.
About Manulife and John Hancock
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.
Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.
It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact hr@manulife.com.
Referenced Salary Location
Boston, MassachusettsWorking Arrangement
Salary range is expected to be between
$90,160.00 USD - $167,440.00 USDEmployees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact hr@manulife.com for the salary range for your location.
Manulife/John Hancock offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in the U.S. includes up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time (or more where required by law) each year, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence.
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