Business Analyst

TP ICAP Group; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

TP ICAP Group is seeking a motivated Business Analyst in Belfast to elicit, document, and translate functional and non-functional requirements into a clear roadmap with milestones and user stories. You will work with business, corporate and technology teams on complex Order and Deal Management systems and ensure effective process improvements.

Essential experience includes delivering complex systems, capturing requirements via user stories/use cases, and knowledge of enterprise systems across

Qualifications

• Experience in eliciting and capturing requirements in a software development environment.
• Experience delivering complex systems across the full software development lifecycle.
• Enterprise system experience with a focus on financial services is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business product owners, analysts and development teams to align delivery with priorities.
• Identify and group stories to form MVPs for regular production deployments.
• Capture business needs using user stories and use cases with sufficient detail for scoping and estimation.
• Support planning, prioritisation and risk identification within the SDLC.
• Assist in defining scope and guiding estimation using domain knowledge.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

SDLC knowledge

Enterprise systems

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Masters or higher degree (desirable)

Tools

Agile tooling

User stories & use cases

Job description

## Business AnalystApplylocations: Belfasttime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R5686**Group Overview:** The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions. Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions. The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform. The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.**Role Overview:** The Business Analyst will elicit, understand and document Functional and Non-Functional requirements whilst working closely with the TP ICAP Business, Corporate and Technology teams. The TBA will ensure, together with the project team, that requirements are accurately translated into a Roadmap with Milestones and User Stories. The TBA will work on complex Order Management and Deal Management Systems, including integration with Enterprise services and third party systems. The BA will analyse, understand and model existing business processes within the company and recommend improvements to ensure the effectiveness of the processes.**Role Responsibilities:*** Work closely with the business product owners, business product analysts, and the development team, to ensure the delivery roadmap is in line with business priorities* Help the development teams identify Stories which can be grouped to form minimum viable deliveries in order to support the identification in order to deploy regularly to production* Help team members understand the focus and delivery value of each milestone and each release* Be capable of articulating the business requirements to support planning and estimation* Be responsible for capturing business needs in user stories and use cases and ensure that here is sufficient detail to allow scope definition, estimation and prioritisation* Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisation* Be proactive in supporting the team’s engagement in a well defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs* Support the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging domain and business knowledge* Identify opportunities to consolidate deliveries so as to more effectively address root cause issues across multiple platforms or business products* Challenge the business on their assumptions of what they need to uncover what their problems actually are so that development will be equipped to propose more efficient or effective solutions, or at a minimum ensure deliveries are addressing root cause issues* Ensure that business prioritisation gates in the SDLC are utilised effectively by guiding the business product owners and analysts through the SDLC* Work with the business product owners to shepherd their articulation of business needs and priorities and capture these using preferred tooling in recognised formats such as user stories and use cases* Support members of the software team in delivering high quality and innovative software solutions that meet business needs by working with team members at each stage in the feature lifecycle: estimation, prioritisation, test case analysis, development, testing, deployment* Collaborate with the development team, the PEs, TLs and TDMs and the business to establish and analyse trade-offs between usability and delivery* Be a liaison between the business units, technology and support teams* Identify and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate* Work with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates, identify potential areas of risk and suggest mitigating actions**Experience / Competences:** Essential:* Degree or equivalent industry experience* Experience in a business analysis role in the delivery of complex systems* Experience of eliciting and capturing requirements, using user stories and use cases, in a software development environment for the delivery of complex systems* Enterprise system experience* Experience of the full software development lifecycle in a technical roleDesired:* Knowledge of MiFID II* Relevant Masters or higher degree* Experience of delivering platforms and services across multiple teams* Experience of multi-year projects from inception to maintenance* Experience of regulatory driven projects* Experience of mentoring colleagues and supporting colleague growth and advancement* Experience of transitioning applications and/or products from vendors or remote locations to local teams* Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products* Financial sector experience* Experience of using agile tooling to support team delivery* Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach* Strong analytical ability and problem solving skills***Band & Level – Professional, 5***