Senior Business Analyst – FX/PM Platform Transformation 100% (f/m/d) - (Contract through our external payroll partner, immediate start for 12 months, possible extension)

Julius Baer; Zürich; On-site; CHF 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Julius Baer is seeking an experienced Business Analyst with a strong FX and Precious Metals background to translate business needs into practical technology solutions within the sales and trading environment. You will bridge business needs and technology, supporting cross-functional teams across FX, PM, onboarding, pricing, and post-trade processing.

You will collaborate with FX Institutional Sales, Trading and Technology to enhance eFX platforms, ensuring regulatory compliance and strong risk

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in business analysis, requirements engineering and application support.
• Profound knowledge of FX and PM products, including RM/traders support.
• Strong understanding of Private Banking products and client lifecycle processes.
• Experience supporting FX Institutional Sales processes.
• Knowledge of OTC derivatives and multi-leg option strategies would be an advantage.
• Experience using delivery tools and Agile methodologies such as Jira and Confluence to manage requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to identify, analyse, and document business requirements, ensuring they align with strategic objectives.
• Review existing business processes to spot gaps, inefficiencies, and risks, and recommend practical improvements.
• Convert business needs into clear delivery artefacts such as BRDs, user stories, process maps, acceptance criteria, and decision logs.
• Challenge requirements constructively and help stakeholders reach clear decisions on scope and outcomes.
• Document end-to-end user journeys or workflows, supporting architecture, product owners and software development teams.
• Maintain requirements traceability and ensure alignment from discovery to delivery.

Skills

FX & PM products

Jira

Confluence

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder communication

Client onboarding

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

Global Products & Solutions (GPS) plays a central role in shaping client-focused investment strategies, developing innovative financial products, and providing expert advisory across all major asset classes. Our GPS Platform & Services team aims to strategically develop.

The GPS Platform Transformation drives innovation across the Global Products & Solutions (GPS) platform to enable sustainable growth through cutting-edge technology. Our focus is on delivering maximum value at optimal cost, while ensuring platform health, performance, and reliability.

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with a strong, global Foreign Exchange (FX) and Precious Metals (PM) background covering the full spectrum of products, including Spot, Forwards, Swaps, NDFs, Options, ACDC and TARF/TARN. The role focuses on translating business needs into practical technology solutions, bridging business needs and technology solutions within the sales and trading environment.

The GPS Platform Transformation FX/PM Business Analyst reports to Head of Sales Platform.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Business Analysis & Requirements Gathering

• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to identify, analyse, and document business requirements, ensuring they align with strategic objectives
• Review existing business processes to spot gaps, inefficiencies, and risks, and recommend practical, measurable improvements
• Convert business needs into clear delivery artefacts such as business requirement documents, user stories, process maps, acceptance criteria, and decision logs
• Challenge requirements constructively, evaluate solution options and help stakeholders reach clear decisions on scope, priorities and expected outcomes
• Document end-to-end user journeys or workflows, supporting architecture, product owners and software development teams
• Maintain requirements traceability, manage controlled change processes, and ensure alignment from discovery to delivery

FX/PM & Sales Applications

• Provide business analysis across FX and Precious Metals, including Spot, Forwards, Swaps, NDFs, Options and Structured or Exotic Products
• Produce end-to-end solution documents and implementation blueprints. Collaborate closely with architects and SMEs to define strategic and scalable solutions
• Analyse front-to-back FX and Precious Metals workflows across client onboarding/management, pricing, quoting, suitability checks, execution, booking, risk management, and post-trade processing
• Partner with FX Institutional Sales, Trading and Technology teams to drive enhancements to existing eFX platforms, including client onboarding, price composition and distribution, RFQ workflows including intervention, execution services, client reporting and operational efficiency
• Ensure requirements reflect product specific conventions, including currency pairs, value dates, settlement methods, physical or cash delivery, and lifecycle events
• Analyse existing FX/PM applications, interfaces and processes to identify capability gaps, duplicated activities, control weaknesses and opportunities for optimisation undefined

Regulatory responsibilities and risk management

• Meet all legal, regulatory, and compliance standards/requirements
• Adhere to the standards and expectations outlined in the relevant user manuals and guidelines
• Knowledge and expertise in regulatory requirements and market conduct codes
• Demonstrate the highest standards of professional conduct including honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), effective management of conflicts of interest, continuous professional development, sound risk management, and compliance with applicable laws, regulations and policies

YOUR PROFILE

• 7+ years of experience in business analysis, requirements engineering and application support
• Profound knowledge of FX and PM products, including application support for Sales, Relationship Managers, Traders, Operations teams and End Clients
• Strong understanding of Private Banking products, services and client lifecycle processes , including onboarding, suitability and appropriateness assessments, client pricing, reporting and regulatory requirements
• Proven experience supporting FX Institutional Sales processes , incl. onboarding, sales coverage, pricing and quote distribution, Request for Quote workflows, suitability controls, revenue tracking and client reporting
• Knowledge of over-the-counter derivative structures and multi-leg option strategies, such as Risk Reversals, Straddles, Strangles, Bull Spreads and Bear Spreads, would be an advantage
• Strong understanding of FX e-Trading workflows across single-dealer and multi-dealer platforms, including client connectivity, price composition, trade execution and transaction lifecycle management
• Experience using delivery tools and Agile methodologies such as Jira and Confluence to manage requirements, maintain traceability and support successful project delivery
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into clear and actionable solutions and to troubleshoot effectively
• Clear communication with stakeholders, technology teams and control functions across functions, cultures and distributed teams
• Ability to influence decisions without formal authority and navigate complex organisations and decision paths
• Ability to work independently and in a global team setup, taking on initiatives with a positive attitude and a collaborative, team-first mindset
• Resilience in delivery despite ambiguity, changing priorities or tight timelines, with motivation to achieve shared goals