Title: Business Analyst (OTC Derivatives)
Location: London
Duration: 6 Months
Hybrid: 3 days in the office
As a BA within the Derivatives Client Delivery team, you will be expected to:
Understand our clients' business needs.
Understand our systems and how they interact to deliver services to our clients.
Liaise with clients, internal stakeholders [such as Operations, Client Services, Relationship Managers, Risk/Control, Developers] and external vendors in order to define change requirements.
Collaborate with other business functions to ensure that any Derivatives change proposal fits with the wider service delivery to our clients.
Work closely with the rest of the Client Delivery team, including attending daily stand-ups, to ensure that projects are appropriately prioritized and progressed according to committed deadlines.
Translate complex business requirements into clearly defined, actionable stories and tasks for the development teams.
Prepare and execute test plans, including joint UAT with clients.
Defining and updating static data
Document any new capability and provide training for external and internal stakeholders.
Update project deliverables and dates regularly.
Report time spent on each project accurately and in a timely manner.
Qualifications & Experience
Our ideal candidate would have the following experience and skills:
Significant demonstrable experience as a BA supporting change projects within a Derivatives environment, preferably gained in relation to fund management or outsourced services.
Extensive knowledge of Derivative products, both OTC and ETD
Understanding of OTC and ETD workflows from execution through to client reporting. As well as core processes such as Trade Capture, Settlement and Confirmations, should be familiar with Data Management, Collateral Management/Margining, Valuation and Reg Reporting
Excellent organizational skills and an ability to prioritize multiple deliverables and work independently with minimum supervision.
Strong written and communication skills, especially the ability to deal with demanding clients.
A collaborative approach to working, preferably with experience working as part of an Agile team.
Experience defining and documenting operational processes and technical data flows.
Experience creating and executing UAT and Regression test packs.
Ability to obtain and manipulate data using SQL and Power BI
Experience with applications such as JIRA, Markit EDM, OSTRA MTM and GMI would be beneficial.
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
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