Senior Business Analyst - Trade Lifecycle

Luxoft; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 100’000 - 130’000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading financial technology firm in Switzerland is looking for an experienced individual to join their Trade Management team, focusing on the development of the strategic cross-asset risk platform. The role requires 8-12 years of experience in business analysis and solution design within Financial Markets, along with strong knowledge of derivatives and Agile practices. This position offers a collaborative environment dealing with multiple stakeholders to drive enhancements and deliver quality solutions.

Qualifikationen

• 8-12 years' experience in business analysis and solution design in Financial Markets.
• Strong knowledge of derivatives across asset classes.
• Some technical background in code analysis would be preferable.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Meticulous documentation skills.

Aufgaben

• Drive agile delivery process in a Scrum Master role.
• Manage strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders.
• Take ownership of technology deliveries from requirement to deployment.
• Provide ongoing support to the technology teams.
• Identify risks and communicate them to stakeholders.

Kenntnisse

Business analysis

Solution design

Agile development practices

Strong communication skills

Derivatives knowledge

Problem solving skills

Analytical skills

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

Project description

The role sits in the Trade Management team focusing on the build out of the in-house strategic cross asset risk platform: SABRE which is the bank's strategic platform for trade processing, valuation and market. It consists in designing and delivering solutions to the users of this platform with an initial focus onboarding new products, driving enhancement solutions, planning project timelines and working with multiple stakeholders such as users and developers to achieve desired outcome. As the main focus of the role is on the Trade Data Store (TDS2), experience in trade booking, lifecycling and how a trade prices using static or market data is preferable. This would also require basic understanding of the financial products booked in the trades, with emphasis on FX (swaps, forwards, NDFs, etc) and IR products (eg. Repo and bonds). The role will be required to provide third-level business support for issues in trade replication, and also project enhancements for Front Office traders' requirements.

Responsibilities

• Experience of driving agile delivery process in Scrum Master role, product ownership experience useful too.
• Pro-actively engage, manage and build strong relationships with both business and technology stakeholders.
• Taking ownership of technology deliveries from high level requirement through development, testing and deployment.
• Provide on-going support to the technology teams as required e.g. authoring / reviewing test cases, closing out open issues / questions, managing change request process, maintaining high quality UAT plans, Issue Trackers promoting visibility within the team and to wider program stakeholders.
• Identify risks and issues early, plan mitigating steps and communicate these to stakeholders in a timely manner
• Understand business requirements for front office platform design and translate into quality technology solutions.

Skills

Must have

• 8-12 years' experience with business analysis, solution design and end-to-end delivery in the Financial Markets industry
• Strong knowledge of derivatives across asset classes - Rates/Commodities/FX encompassing product knowledge, pricing, risk analytics and trade life cycle
• Some technical background in analyzing or reviewing code changes would be preferable
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Knowledge and experience of Agile development practices
• Ability to work proactively, independently and displays strong initiative.
• Meticulous and upkeep documentation of project artifacts, discussions, risks, functional specifications
• Strong communication and presentation skills with an excellent standard of English are a must.

Nice to have

• Certifications such as Scrum Master, Product Owner or PMP a plus.
• Knowledge and previous experience of large-scale financial markets technology platforms a plus.