Senior Business Analyst

From data scientists to derivative market experts, scrum masters to strategists, our clients team brings together talented people from an incredibly diverse range of disciplines. In some ways they're a fintech, with 1 in 3 people working technology. Yet they are also experts in operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

An opportunity exists for a Senior Business Analyst to join the organisation and be a key enabler for the analysis, design and development of trade solutions. This is an end-to-end business analysis role that will enable and support the changes from concept to implementation.

What you'll be doing:

• Elicit business, system, product and operational requirements
• Gather and document business / functional / process / data / technical requirements
• Perform discovery and deep dives to document the As-Is / To-Be states for cash and derivatives products
• Partner with the product owner to evolve the product vision, assess new concepts and prioritise features
• Write high quality user stories and acceptance criteria for functional and non-functional requirements
• Liaise with IT solution providers on project progress and problem resolution
• Support the development and testing of the requirements through to delivery

• Minimum 5 years experience in a pure Business Analyst role
• Strong Capital Markets experience with full understanding of Trade Lifecycle
• Strong domain knowledge including Equities, Futures and Options
• Ideally have worked for sell side banks
• Experience with BPMN/2.0, UML
• Experience working on Agile, Lean and Waterfall projects
• Strong experience in Facilitation, workshops, eliciting requirements, writing them down, turning them into user stories, writing acceptance criteria, pushing it through to testing and developers.
• Any knowledge of industry protocol standards such as FIX and ISO20022 is highly regarded 
• Any experience with product management and product ownership is highly regarded