Senior Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

- Assist in the Business Analysis phase including the capture and translation of business requirements turning these into functional requirements, and non-functional requirements (i.e. architectural, infrastructure, security, testing, migration, operational, DR). Ensuring appropriate documentation of requirements is captured and recorded (e.g. 'Requirement Story' in JIRA).

- Analysing end to end business streams to establish data requirements in line with XML/XSD modelling, specifically FpML, of entities across multiple business areas across multiple geographical regions.

- Logical Data Modelling working closely with both business and IT teams.

- Identification of common data requirements and helping to drive shared data platforms.

- Cleaning, mapping and extending data sets to improve business processes and tools.

- Coordination and delivery management of solutions across Enterprise Delivery teams in support of end to end testing and production delivery.

- All work is to be undertaken adhering to existing project and department standards for documentation, security, testing and release management.-

Experience:

- Proven track record of supporting Back/Middle Office systems.

- Proven experience of developing mutually beneficial relationships with business stake holders, users, software solution providers, and other IT teams.

- Proven experience of full involvement in project life cycles within Investment Banking.

- Proven experience performing system testing and guiding users with building their functional plans for user testing.

- Ability to handle multiple work streams and assignments simultaneously.

- Proven experience of issue resolution through data mining and investigation.

Technical Knowledge / Skills- :

- Excellent technical analysis and investigatory skills.

- Ability to work with both business and IT staff in a pressured environment.

- Business analysis within an Agile development project.

- Strong data analysis skills to ensure accurate system data extracts and reconciliations working with large datasets.

- Proven track record of writing structured business requirements and functional specifications.

- Working knowledge of financial instruments: government bonds, SAS bonds, credit bonds, exchange traded bond futures, interest rate swaps, repos, stock lending and equities.

- Well-structured and logical approach to working.

- Good knowledge of Compliance business processes.

- In-depth experience of trade booking and management systems such as Summit, Calypso

- Detailed knowledge of derivative, ETD (Exchange-Traded Derivative), trade life cycles