Business Analyst/Senior Consultant Specialist

• Communicate with business to identify needs and translate client requirements into specified project briefs
• Develop logical and innovative solutions to complex problems
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders and business contacts
• Document and design solutions using UML standards
• Maintain up-to-date understanding of the business practices and system capabilities
• Design test strategy and plan testing cycles
  

Requirements

• To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
  

• Extensive functional and technical business analysis experience (Minimum 10 years+) working at global financial institution
• Excellent Markets knowledge across a range of products: Credit, Rates, FX; Fixed Income; Futures, Swaps
• Excellent Front to Back (full) Trade Lifecycle and Risk knowledge
• Proven, significant and demonstrable experience of analysing and documenting business requirements for global applications
• Practical experience in functional analysis and design, utilising different methodologies i.e. Use Cases, Business Process Modelling within an Agile
  

• Proven, significant and demonstrable experience of following a structured approach to analysis, including the preparation of all related artefacts (e.g. functional system specifications etc.)
• Strong technical written communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of the project lifecycle and application development process including best practice methodologies
  

• The role-holder will be a confident, well-organised, self-starting individual with extensive data analysis and change management experience,
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (comfortable in written and verbal communications) to facilitate with users from around the world and from different cultural backgrounds), relationship management and flexible interpersonal skills,
• Highly developed reasoning and analytical skills
• That they are self-motivated, enthusiastic, pro-active and a proven fast learner,
• A structured approach to the management and planning of their own work (able to efficiently manage multiple tasks, prioritising appropriately and transparently)
• Accountability for delivery – takes ownership of tasks assigned to ultimate resolution with minimal supervision,
• Appetite, enthusiasm and desire to execute change at pace,
• A willingness to constructively challenge accepted wisdom ensure focus on the problem to be addressed rather than “the solution we want”,
• Experienced in working with resources in geographically dispersed teams, appreciating and respecting local cultures,
• Advanced analysis, requirements elicitation, functional design and problem-solving skills - structured, formal approach to analysis tasks,
• Able to articulate clearly the project lifecycle and application development process including best practice methodologies and an uncompromising eye for quality,
  

• Working knowledge in
• SQL, Stored procedures, PL-SQL etc.
• Mongo queries
• XML, XSL, XQuery
• UML standards
• Atlassian tools – Confluence, Jira
• Exposure to:
• GIT
• WinSCP
• PuTTY
• Basic Unix commands
• Macro
  

• Exposure to Fixed Income Derivative products.
• Basic knowledge on RDBMS (e.g. Oracle)
• Knowledge of regulatory reporting guidelines by various regulatory authorities