Business Analyst

Luxoft; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to own Fixed Income integration workstreams, covering Bond and Repo product setup, trade lifecycle, and settlement on the client’s clearing/risk platform.

You will configure Bond static data from external agencies like Bloomberg/Refinitiv, and manage the integration of Bloomberg TOMS and VCON trade flows into the trading platform. You will define data licenses, feeds, and downstream risk and settlement consumption.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Capital Markets with a strong focus on Fixed Income (Bonds and Repos).
• Understanding of bond products including Fixed/Floating Rate, T-Bills, Zero Coupon.
• Understanding of repo processing, open vs term repos, haircuts, close leg generation.
• Knowledge of bond/trade lifecycle pricing, capture, confirmation and settlement.
• Experience with Bond static/security master setup via interfaces like Bloomberg/Refinitiv.
• Knowledge of SWIFT settlement messages and settlement workflows.
• Experience in designing interfaces, data mapping, FIX/API connectivity.
• Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS and VCON for trade capture.
• Strong analytical, data quality and reconciliation skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as BA for Fixed Income integration workstreams across Bond and Repo product setup, trade lifecycle, and settlement.
• Configure and validate Bond static data from external agencies.
• Manage integration of Bloomberg TOMS and VCON trade flows into trading platform.
• Define requirements for Bloomberg Data License feeds and downstream consumption.
• Support full Bond and Repo trade lifecycle from capture to netting and settlement generation.
• Define and validate SWIFT settlement messaging requirements.
• Perform gap analyses between current and target state in trade processing and settlement workflows.
• Facilitate workshops with Front Office, Operations, and Technology to elicit requirements and validate designs.
• Support UAT and end-to-end testing of trade flows, static data loads, and settlement messages.

Skills

Fixed Income

Bond products

Trade lifecycle

SWIFT messages

Bloomberg TOMS

Bloomberg VCON

Reference data

Data mapping

API connectivity

Agile

Stakeholder facilitation

UAT testing

Tools

Bloomberg TOMS

Bloomberg VCON

FIX protocol

APIs

Job description

• Serve as the Business Analyst for Fixed Income Integration workstreams, covering Bond and Repo product setup, trade lifecycle, and settlement on the client's clearing/risk platform.
• Configure and validate Bond static data setup sourced from external agencies like Blomberg, Refinitiv
• Manage integration of Bloomberg TOMS and VCON trade flows into the trading platform defining trade capture requirements, message mapping, FIX/API specifications, and exception handling.
• Define and document requirements for Bloomberg Data License (DL) feeds — security reference data, pricing, corporate actions, yield curves — and their consumption by downstream risk and settlement systems.
• Support the full Bond and Repo trade lifecycle from trade capture, validation, enrichment, position management, through to netting and settlement instruction generation.
• Define and validate SWIFT settlement messaging requirements covering Secuirty, Cash settlements
• Perform gap analysis between current-state and target-state for fixed income trade processing, static data management, and settlement workflows.
• Facilitate workshops with Front office, Operations, and Technology teams to elicit requirements and validate integration designs.
• Support UAT and end-to-end testing of trade flows, static data loads, and settlement message generation.

Mandatory Skills:

Capital Markets

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 5+ years of experience in Capital Markets with a strong focus on Fixed Income (Bonds and Repos).
• Understanding of various bond products like Fixed / Floating Rate, T-Bills, Zero Coupon and Asset Backed.
• Understanding of Repo-specific processing open vs term repos, repo rate conventions, haircuts, close leg generation, substitution.
• Excellent knowledge of the Bond and Repo trade lifecycle pricing, trade capture, confirmation and settlement.
• Hands-on experience with Bond static/security master setup from interfaces like Blomberg / Refinitiv, reference data sourcing.
• Good understanding of security settlement models, netting, and CSD/custodian interactions
• Strong understanding of SWIFT MT 540–548 settlement messages, message structure, matching rules, and settlement status workflows.
• Experience with integration design defining interface specifications, data mapping, FIX protocol, API connectivity, and file-based feeds between front-office and post-trade systems.
• Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS and/or Bloomberg VCON for trade order management and trade capture in fixed income.
• Demonstrated experience in business analysis requirements elicitation, User story preparation, data flow documentation, and stakeholder facilitation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to data quality and reconciliation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal capabilities for effective collaboration across trading desks, operations, technology, and external custodians.
• Experience working within Agile project environments.