Jen Besser Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

As the Product Owner for legacy data warehouses, I prioritize programs of work for our global team of developers and business analysts. Our primary stakeholders are Compliance and Equity Portfolio Risk Management who both require data to manage and monitor different kinds of risk for our organization. Engaging these stakeholders to understand new and updated needs and working with our team to create solutions to meet those needs provides critical input to our roadmap.Our team also contributes to the building of our new data lake - learning about the AWS stack and bringing our existing data knowledge to help create a high quality data source for all stakeholders.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

As the Senior Manager of Business Systems Analysis on the Asset Management Technology team, I was responsible for designing solutions for business requirements, working with developers to execute on the design, and validating functionality and data throughout the build process for our proprietary data warehouse product. I coached our team on a transition from waterfall to Scrum and served as the team's Scrum Master.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a Senior Consultant, served as a Business Analyst at a large financial institution working on a proprietary data warehouse project• Refreshed original requirements to bring them up to date with current needs and added detail that allowed the technology team to build from the requirements• Tested new builds to ensure they met the requirements and followed up with bug fixes• Assisted with pre- and post-release activities to ensure successful release of new and updated functionality

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

The objective of the Data Quality Team was to ensure the quality of data needed for investment decisions. We accomplished this by providing the skills and tools necessary to investigate, correct and consolidate data from across systems.My team implemented Markit EDM as our master data management and data quality tool and implemented Data3Sixty as our metadata management tool.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a Senior Manager, I led a business analysis and architecture team that assisted Product Owners and Scrum teams in planning for major initiatives so that our teams could successfully execute on our division's top priorities.I also provide thought leadership on our division's data management strategy.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Project resource in a variety of roles: business architecture, requirements analysis, project coordinationProjects: Implemented data governance at a division level (coordinating with corporate) and created a cross-division business glossary

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a Business Lead for Fixed Income, I led a group of three business analysts who managed data and daily processing for fixed income related applications (analytics systems, portfolio management reporting, and a local data mart for portfolio managers and research analysts).

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a Manager for Voyageur Systems, I developed a five-person team of Systems Administrators to manage the company's trading, compliance, portfolio management, client management, and client reporting systems. Our team partnered with internal clients to find solutions for workflow, data, and technology issues so that our investment professionals could more effectively manage our client relationships and money. We initiated an Enterprise Data Management program that included needs analysis and selection of appropriate tools to ensure effective management of the company's critical data.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a Systems Administrator at Voyageur, I managed daily operations for the company's trading and portfolio management systems. I also planned, implemented and communicated system/process changes and upgrades to all levels of stakeholders. And, I served as liaison between Voyageur and RBC Dain Rauscher Information Technology for all SQL Database Administrator resources, Data Security concerns and day to day desktop support.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As an Investment Systems Analyst for Advantus, I was the system administrator for the company's portfolio management system. This role included performing daily maintenance, audits, upgrades, and training for new users as well as daily data management within the application. I also evaluated, implemented and developed new systems and enhanced system functionality. And I managed the relationship with large, essential system vendors.I was a founding member of the Investment Systems Standards Committee. The Committee was started to ensure the consistency and quality of investment decision and book of record data across the Investment Management and Investment Accounting divisions. The cross functional committee consisted of members from investment management, investment accounting, corporate tax and reporting, and compliance.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As an Investment Systems Specialist at Advantus Capital Management, I provided first level support for the company's portfolio management and trading systems, and second level support for other ancillary investment systems. I lead support-related projects and developed Lotus Notes databases. I participated in system implementations and upgrade projects.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As an Investment System Administrator for IAI, I provided investment systems support and expertise to Investment Services personnel of all levels in a multi-currency environment. I managed interfacing projects connecting our portfolio management system with purchased and IAI-developed products (e.g., bank reconciliation software, client billing system, and FT Spectrum data translator). I also lead software upgrade projects for investment technology and conducted end-user training.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a Data Operations Administrator for IAI, I designed, tested, and maintained a new client billing system. I was also responsible for maintaining current and accurate data and creating reports for investment personnel in our portfolio management system.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a Trade Settlement Assistant, I helped ensure proper documentation and recording for daily transactions.

Bachelor Of Arts

Mini Mba Certificate