Senior Business Analyst

Project description Financial Market Digital Channels team is driven to provide world class technology to support the bank’s Financial Markets business, working specifically on the bank’s in-house built pricing, execution and trade processing platform. We bring a deep understanding of the domain, a scientific approach, and innovative solutions to bear on the challenges of best servicing our customers in a highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to join an organization working with smart technologists globally in the financial markets domain. The culture in the team is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful and career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents willing and able to step up. Responsibilities

• Experience of driving agile delivery process in Scrum Master role, product ownership experience useful too.
• Pro-actively engage, manage and build strong relationships with both business and technology stakeholders.
• Taking ownership of technology deliveries from high level requirement through development, testing, and deployment.
• Provide on-going support to the technology teams as required e.g. authoring / reviewing test cases, closing out open issues / questions, managing change request process, maintaining high quality UAT plans, Issue Trackers promoting visibility within the team and to wider program stakeholders.
• Identify risks and issues early, plan mitigating steps and communicate these to stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Understand business requirements for front office platform design and translate into quality technology solutions.

• The candidate must have at least 8-10 years of experience with banks or product companies with strong business analysis skills.
• Financial Markets technology delivery experience.
• Good understanding of one or more of the following asset classes – Rates/Commodities/FX derivatives.
• Agile and traditional project management methodology experience.
• Technical background beneficial, knowledge of programming and scripting languages, technologies, architectures, data stores, messaging.
• Sound business analysis skills: documenting business requirements and user stories, liaising with business stakeholders and translating them into specifications for development & testing.
• Flexibility to wear multiple hats: Scrum master/Business Analyst/UAT manager based on project demands.
• Experience handling release cycles for technology delivery in a financial institution.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with an excellent standard of English (written and spoken).
• Experience of working with a globally distributed team spread across different time zones.
• Understanding of change processes in financial institutions.
• Ability to lead cross-departmental teams to delivery – with or without direct reporting line.

• Certifications such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, or PMP a plus.
• Knowledge and previous experience of large-scale financial markets technology platforms a plus.