Business Analyst Capital Markets Experience

Randstad Canada; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

End-to-end exposure

Cross-functional team

Established industry leader

Job summary

Randstad Canada seeks a Senior Business Analyst to join our Capital Markets technology team, shaping, enhancing, and supporting trading and post-trade platforms for Equity and Fixed Income across electronic and OTC markets.

You will partner with front-, middle-, and back-office teams to bridge business operations and technology, ensuring trade execution, allocation, settlement, and reporting align with standards and goals. This hybrid role offers strong cross-functional exposure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of dedicated experience as a Business Analyst within financial technology environments.
• Proven experience with Equities and/or Fixed Income securities, trade execution, and post-trade processing.
• Deep familiarity with trade capture, allocation, settlement, and reporting workflows.
• Strong experience with vendor software integrations, proprietary applications, and cross-platform interfaces.
• Excellent communication skills translating business needs into technical specifications for development and support teams.

Responsibilities

• Gather, document functional requirements for equity and fixed-income trade processing systems.
• Collaborate with development and support teams to integrate vendor, global, and proprietary applications into a cohesive technology architecture.
• Support platforms responsible for trade capture, allocation, settlement, repository, and regulatory/internal reporting.
• Assist in driving downstream interface improvements supporting local trading and sales activities.
• Act as the primary liaison between technology groups, risk, finance, and trading operations to resolve system issues and deliver business-critical enhancements.

Skills

Senior Business Analyst

Capital Markets

Trade lifecycle

SDLC & Integrations

Communication & Collaboration

Job description

We are seeking a high-performing Senior Business Analyst to join a dynamic Capital Markets technology team. In this role, you will play a key part in designing, enhancing, and supporting trading and post-trade platforms for Equity and Fixed Income securities across electronic and OTC markets.

Collaborating closely with front-, middle-, and back-office teams, you will bridge the gap between business operations and technology to ensure trade execution, allocation, settlement, and reporting systems align with organizational standards and business goals.

Advantages

• Established Industry Leader: Work on high-impact platforms supporting institutional trading and operations.
• Comprehensive Exposure: End-to-end involvement across the trade lifecycle (capturing, allocation, settlement, and reporting).
• Structured Schedule: Work 37.5 hours per week in a predictable 4-day in-office hybrid schedule.
• Cross-Functional Environment: Engage directly with traders, operations, risk, finance teams, and application engineers.

Responsibilities

• Business Analysis & Requirements: Partner with internal users (front office to back office) to gather, define, and document functional requirements for equity and fixed-income trade processing systems.
• Platform Integration: Collaborate with application development and support teams to integrate vendor, global, and proprietary applications into a cohesive technology architecture.
• Trade Lifecycle Support: Support platforms responsible for trade capture, allocation, settlement, repository, and regulatory/internal reporting.
• Operational Execution: Assist in driving downstream interface improvements supporting local trading and sales activities.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Act as the primary liaison between technology groups, risk, finance, and trading operations to resolve system issues and deliver business-critical enhancements.

Qualifications

Must-Have Qualifications

• - Seniority: 8+ years of dedicated experience as a Business Analyst within complex corporate or financial technology environments.
• - Capital Markets Knowledge: Proven experience with Equities and/or Fixed Income securities, trade execution, and post-trade processing.
• - Trade Lifecycle Understanding: Deep familiarity with trade capture, allocation, settlement, and reporting workflows.
• - SDLC & Integration: Strong experience working with vendor software integrations, proprietary applications, and cross-platform downstream interfaces.
• - Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills with a track record of effectively translating business needs into technical specifications for development and support teams.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• - Familiarity with both electronic trade-enabled and over-the-counter (OTC) market operations.

Summary

If you are a seasoned Senior Business Analyst with a deep background in Capital Markets technology and a passion for optimizing trade processing platforms, we want to hear from you.

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to [e-mail] to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

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