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American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm's 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends-more than $1.8 billion - to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute's work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
For more information, please visit americancentury.com.
Are you interested in an Analyst role that includes product owner responsibility? Do you have experience working with data sets within the financial services industry? We may have the opportunity you have been waiting for!
We have a Data Analytics opportunity within our innovative Enterprise Data team. You will play a key role in helping to drive data forward along with strategic objectives. In this role, you will support efforts to use data to enhance productivity and encourage partners throughout the enterprise to adopt and embrace the concepts of data governance, master data, and analytics using an enterprise data platform. Other primary responsibilities are to act in the role of product owner and define and prioritize the product backlog for various investment data domains.
The Analyst will interact and collaborate with Business leaders, Product Managers and Product Owners in Marketing, Sales and Distribution, along with the development team(s), business users and other partners to understand the vision for the business and reduce risk. You will also own and maintain a product backlog that ultimately seeks to deliver data and business solutions.
Responsibilities:
Required experience/education:
Please note: This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
Location: Kansas City.
Preferred:
Additional Requirements:
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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2019 American Century Proprietary Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm's 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends-more than $1.8 billion - to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute's work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
For more information, please visit americancentury.com.
Are you interested in an Analyst role that includes product owner responsibility? Do you have experience working with data sets within the financial services industry? We may have the opportunity you have been waiting for!
We have a Data Analytics opportunity within our innovative Enterprise Data team. You will play a key role in helping to drive data forward along with strategic objectives. In this role, you will support efforts to use data to enhance productivity and encourage partners throughout the enterprise to adopt and embrace the concepts of data governance, master data, and analytics using an enterprise data platform. Other primary responsibilities are to act in the role of product owner and define and prioritize the product backlog for various investment data domains.
The Analyst will interact and collaborate with Business leaders, Product Managers and Product Owners in Marketing, Sales and Distribution, along with the development team(s), business users and other partners to understand the vision for the business and reduce risk. You will also own and maintain a product backlog that ultimately seeks to deliver data and business solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Enterprise Data Management and their team, as well as other business leaders on the near and long-term roadmap for two key capabilities within American Century's data and analytics workstreams: Data Mastery and Data products and Self-Service Data Analytics.
- Good understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure (S3, Redshift, RDS).
- ETL development skills (Glue ETL, Python, Lambda).
- Ability to extract data from data stores with strong analytical skills.
- Requirements gathering and translation of the product vision from feature(s) into stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria
- Data mapping, Modeling and Data Flows skills to help data architects
- Data testing skills to help team perform in-sprint testing activities.
Required experience/education:
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field (e.g. finance, computer science, mathematics) some combination of business and technology education is highly preferred or have related work experience.
- Minimum of 2+ years' experience in business, engineering, technology and/or consulting.
- Knowledge of Agile development methodologies and business/systems analysis.
- Demonstrable experience with client data sets (company, contact, financial transactions/accounts, and retirement plans) and an ability to mine such data and produce analyses.
- Experimental approach to drive innovation in a fast-paced environment amidst uncertainty.
- Good analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Good written/verbal communication skills with attention to detail, and the ability to communicate to the managers on the analysis and results.
- Solid proficiency in learning new tools and technologies to work optimally in a rapid growth environment.
- Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.
Please note: This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
Location: Kansas City.
Preferred:
- Financial Services experience
- Good understanding of data mastering, knowledge of ETL development and ability to prepare technical specifications will be very favorable.
Additional Requirements:
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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2019 American Century Proprietary Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
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