Senior Business Analyst (Capital Markets)

Luxoft; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft Financial Services UK Limited Australia Branch seeks a Fixed Income Integration Business Analyst to join the Australian team and help implement and configure Bond and Repo products. You will coordinate trade flows, static data setup, and end-to-end settlements across interfaces and downstream systems.

The role requires deep Capital Markets experience, especially in Fixed Income, and hands-on work with Bloomberg TOMS/VCON and Refinitiv data feeds within an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Capital Markets with focus on Fixed Income.
• In-depth knowledge of Bond/Repo products and lifecycle.
• Experience with Bond data setup from external sources.
• Understanding of SWIFT settlement messaging and settlement workflows.
• Experience with Bloomberg TOMS/VCON and data feeds.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the BA for Fixed Income Integration workstreams covering Bond and Repo 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 and Refinitiv.
• Manage integration of Bloomberg TOMS and VCON trade flows into the trading platform, defining trade capture requirements and message mappings.
• Define and document requirements for Bloomberg Data License feeds—security reference data, pricing, corporate actions, yield curves.
• Support the full Bond and Repo trade lifecycle from trade capture, validation, enrichment, position management, through to netting and settlement generation.
• Define and validate SWIFT settlement messaging requirements covering Security and Cash settlements.
• Perform gap analysis between current-state and target-state for fixed income trade processing and settlement workflows.
• Facilitate workshops with Front office, Operations, and Technology teams to elicit requirements and validate designs.
• Support UAT and end-to-end testing of trade flows, static data loads, and settlement message generation.

Skills

Fixed Income

Capital Markets

Trade lifecycle

Interface integration

SWIFT settlement

Bloomberg TOMS

Bloomberg VCON

Refinitiv data

Tools

Blomberg data

Refinitiv data

FIX/API

Bloomberg data feed

Job description

Role on behalf of Luxoft Financial Services UK Limited Australia Branch

Project Description

An opportunity is available for a Fixed Income Integration Business Analyst to join our client, a leading Australian financial institute, as a key contributor to the implementation and configuration of Bond and Repo products. This role involves integrating trade flow from upstream interfaces, security static data setup, and managing end-to-end fixed income settlements. The successful candidate will work at the intersection of business and technology, ensuring seamless trade lifecycle management from execution through to settlement.

Responsibilities

• 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 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.