Job Description

About Us

Job Title:

Business Performance Analyst

Location:

New York - Client Site x3 days a week, 2 days WFH

Working Hours/Shifts:

Full Time

Employment Type:

Permanent

Join our World of Talent.

At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. As part of our commitment to your growth and development, we encourage you to explore opportunities available within our organisation. Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're dedicated to providing avenues for you to reach its fullest potential. We do so by providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences essential for your progress.

Take the next step in your career journey and discover our exciting opportunities.

The Role

Would you like to support a Tier 1 Investment Bank by driving performance excellence through precise monitoring, accurate data insights, and continuous operational improvement?

If you have a passion for doing things better - for both your clients and your career - bring it to AMS and unleash your potential.

As a Business Performance Analyst , you will partner closely with client stakeholders, reporting experts, and operational teams to ensure data accuracy, robust performance governance, and smooth end-to-end reporting processes. This role plays a critical part in translating complex information into clear, actionable insights that support informed decision-making and strong compliance across the business.

Key Accountabilities

What you’ll be doing

• Act as a trusted business partner to senior stakeholders, building strong relationships by asking the right questions and proactively identifying business needs and opportunities.
• Translate complex data, trends, and financial information into simplified, non-technical insights that enable clear understanding and effective decision-making.
• Support performance monitoring and governance by ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and consistency of management information and reporting.
• Deliver financial analysis including reconciliations, budgeting support, and basic FP&A activities to help track performance against plans and forecasts.
• Partner with Internal reporting teams to identify variances, risks, and improvement opportunities, escalating insights where appropriate.
• Extract, manipulate, and analyze large data sets from multiple sources to develop dashboards, models, and performance metrics.
• Apply critical thinking to interpret data trends and provide recommendations that drive operational efficiency and continuous improvement.
• Ensure reporting processes and outputs meet governance, compliance, and control standards.

Skills & Requirements

You’ll need to demonstrate:

Must haves

• Experience in a business management, operations, analytics, or finance-related role within financial services or a similarly complex environment.
• Advanced MS Excel skills
• Ability to work confidently with data, interpret trends, and ensure accuracy in performance metrics.
• Capable of conducting foundational analysis and supporting the preparation of performance insights.
• Familiarity with reporting processes, data quality checks, and collaborating with reporting teams.
• Able to track adherence to operational processes and escalate issues appropriately.
  Understanding how performance, invoicing, and cost control activities impact financial outcomes.
• Able to translate data or processes into clear, understandable outputs.
• Experience supporting performance monitoring, service delivery, or operational governance functions.
• Experience in environments where data accuracy, compliance, or reporting is essential.

Why AMS?

At AMS, we recognise the value of different perspectives and experiences in prompting innovation, sparking creativity, and solving problems.

We come from every walk of life, and our culture is open and inclusive. Our people enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and being trusted to work their way. We offer you career opportunities in every direction you want to explore. It’s our world but you can do it your way.

For this role, the initial expected remuneration is $71,000 to $110,000 plus applicable benefits. Please note that the posted compensation range is indicative only, as the final package for this position with this client may be intentionally positioned above market to attract and retain top talent

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email Talent@weareams.com or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

Hit the Apply now button to get your journey started!

We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.

Details

Reference

AMS30291

Closing

30/04/2026

Location

United States, New York, New York

Schedule

Full Time

Business area

Performance Management and Continuous Improvement

Sector

Investment Banking

Employment Type

Permanent

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