the company is the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BUR), and it works with companies and law firms around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington, Singapore, and Dubai.
the company is the largest and most experienced provider of commercial finance to the legal sector in the world, with a core expertise in identifying and optimizing the value of legal assets for companies and law firms. Since its founding in 2009, Burford has worked with hundreds of law firms and corporations, including 94 of the AmLaw 100 and 92 of the Global 100 largest law firms. Our team has grown from five people at the end of 2009 to over 170 people today, including over 55 lawyers.
Burford possesses the resources and expertise of a large company while retaining the flexibility and creativity of a startup. Team members are smart, creative, collaborative, curious, and confident. Everyone rolls up their sleeves to perform and engage collectively for the overall success of the business. Burford values rigorous thinking, clear communication, and efficient execution. Burford is an “always on” environment in which everyone needs to be accessible by email when outside the office, including during evenings and weekends.
Burford pays base salaries consistent with the financial services industry and favors incentive compensation to reward performance. the company is committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, whether or not they have a disability.
Responsibilities
The Strategy and Quantitative Analytics team at the company is seeking an Associate Product Owner to lead the ongoing development and operation of workstreams within Burford’s investment modelling platform. Acting as a link between the Strategy and Quantitative Analytics team, the Technology Team, and the platform’s users, the Associate Product Owner will own the product requirements, the specifications, and the development plan. Working closely with developers and business analysts, the Associate Product Owner will be responsible for delivering some of the most crucial pieces of Burford’s modelling infrastructure.
Responsibilities include:
- Owning the requirements and analytical direction for multiple workstreams for the development and refinement of Burford’s proprietary investment modelling platform.
- Understanding technical modelling requirements, analysing proposed solutions, and troubleshooting potential edge cases or conflicts with existing modelling logic.
- Act as a representative of the Strategy and Quantitative Analytics team to developers and business analysts, directing function requirements.
- Engaging with users and stakeholders across the business to understand their needs and translate them into clear requirements.
- Drafting functional and technical specifications for new features, platform improvements, and analytical tools, defining analytical logic, calculations and modelling methodology they must implement.
- Managing test packets and validation materials to confirm that functionality performs as intended with calculations and outputs that are numerically correct.
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