Business Analyst - Fintech (Contractor)

Description

WE ARE:

Adaptive is a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, exchanges, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. We have a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Manila and Montreal. We have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for a Business Analyst for an exciting project in the Financial Crime Surveillance domain, as part of the Digital Onboarding process of a client.

Help stakeholders in making their vision for the product materialize, especially in the early stages of each delivery phase - ie requirements solicitation and discovery

Convey that vision to the Adaptive team and define clear milestones for alignment purposes, and so they can make holistic design decisions that will support the delivery

Create & maintain a backlog of deliverable stories for the Adaptive team

Be the stakeholders’ proxy in the team, able to make quick, firm decisions when it comes to scope, requirements and prioritization/triage

Involve Adaptive team members when their perspective can bring value, including times when it can support scope and priority decisions

Follow up during the implementation and testing phases to ensure delivery satisfies the requirements

Drive the backlog review and estimation process and take part in planning activities

Capture non-functional requirements and keep supportability in mind

Define acceptance criteria and tests up front as part of a Business-Driven Development approach

Use experience with Agile delivery to take advantage of its strengths and mitigate its potential risks

Work with distributed teams

THE INDIVIDUAL/S PROVIDING THE SERVICES WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE:

Front office stakeholder relationship management;

Delivering in an agile environment,

Excellent written and verbal communication skills;

Some experience with QA/Business Acceptance Testing;

Some experience working with UX designers;

Some knowledge of client onboarding, client tiering, KYC

Understanding various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate project strategy (including but not limited to: real-time programming, high availability, TDD, BDD, UX design, DevOps concerns…)

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US

You can check our Glassdoor page

THE PROCESS

Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us

We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here there will be a three stage interview process:

1- A chat with one of our recruiters

2- A zoom chat with an Adaptive BA where they will ask detailed questions to assess experience/expertise

3- A Face to Face interview (via Zoom)

After these steps have been completed and all goes well, a casual virtual meet-and-greet with the client will be scheduled.

But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by the Adaptive recruiter.