IT Business Analyst

Description

The company is a global provider of market infrastructure. It gives clients access to financial and commodities markets and supports price discovery, liquidity and data distribution.

It has more than 60 offices in 27 countries and 5,300 people.

It is the largest interdealer broker by revenue, the top Energy & Commodities broker, the leading OTC data provider and runs an award-winning all-to-all trading platform.

Its multi-asset liquidity platform, named OTC trading platform of the year by Risk Magazine, is moving the global broking business from voice to electronic trading.

This role suits an experienced Business Analyst with a capital markets and electronic trading background who can work independently, question assumptions and own complex work from requirements through implementation.

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers, product owners and developers to build reliable software that fits the IT strategy.
• Own key features from start to finish.
• Analyse stakeholder goals, question the problem as stated, and produce clear requirements that set scope and priority.
• Use AI tools to speed up analysis, documentation and stakeholder communication, find efficiency gains and share what works with the team.
• Help the team define scope and estimate effort using your domain and business knowledge.
• Report progress clearly and raise blockers, risks and dependencies early so delivery impact stays small.
• Help team members understand the goal and value of each milestone and release.
• Help the team follow a defined SDLC covering planning, prioritisation and delivery.
• Deliver both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Handle ad hoc tasks as needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years as a Business Analyst, with substantial work in capital markets, electronic trading, order management, trade lifecycle, market infrastructure or related financial technology.
• Proven record as the lead Business Analyst on a product, project or business domain, working with little supervision.
• Background supporting trading systems, order management tools, electronic trading flows and trade lifecycle work as a Business Analyst.
• Solid evidence of trading business processes, workflows and technologies in your past projects, duties and job history.
• Skill in gathering, testing, challenging and clearly stating requirements from idea through delivery.
• Understanding of the full project lifecycle, from requirements through implementation, testing and delivery.
• Demonstrable work with equity and equity derivatives products.
• Familiarity with FIX and trade messaging protocols.
• Able to handle several projects and deadlines with different priorities at once.
• Identify AI-driven opportunities in equities trading workflows and turn business needs into AI-enabled solution specifications.
• Comfortable in Agile and Agile SAFe delivery, with strong communication and collaboration across local and remote colleagues.
• Working knowledge of Jira or a similar issue management system.
• Help with functional testing of features to confirm they meet delivery criteria.
• High attention to detail, organised, proactive and self-directed in solving problems with new approaches.
• Explain complex information in documents that are clear and concise.
• Critically assess and constructively challenge designs, approaches and tools to reach the best result.
• Desired: experience with TDD, BDD or similar approaches to specifying requirements and design.

Conditions

Band 5, Professional level.

Salary $110,000 - $125,000, depending on experience.

Hybrid working, based at 200 Vesey Street, New York, NY, USA.

The company welcomes applicants who meet most but not all of the criteria.