Business Analyst

Cantor Fitzgerald Securities; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a skilled Business Analyst. You will create functional requirements for regulatory reporting and engage with system owners to ensure compliance. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in technology, a strong background in writing functional requirements, and familiarity with regulatory regimes. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with multiple teams and contribute to strategic projects.

Qualifications

• 5 years minimum experience of being a business analyst, ideally in the tech space.
• Ability to write complex functional requirements in both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Experience with JSON and XML schemas.

Responsibilities

• Creating functional requirements for new regulatory requirements.
• Engaging upstream system owners for regulatory reporting.
• Documenting requirements and ensuring obligations are met.

Skills

Business analysis

Functional requirements writing

Experience with JSON and XML schemas

Regulatory reporting experience

Attention to detail

SQL proficiency

Data analysis

Transaction lifecycle knowledge

Job description

Job Description

• Creating functional requirements for the development of new regulatory requirements e.g. onto the strategic reporting and surveillance platforms
• Creating functional requirements for enhancements and fixes to the strategic reporting and surveillance platforms
• Creating functional requirements for migration of the reporting logic currently accommodated by other legacy applications onto the strategic reporting platform
• Engaging upstream system owners where changes are required for regulatory reporting purposes

Performing some BAU support tasks related to surveillance/regulatory reporting

• Defining the current state, data flows, what rules are in place and how we meet the existing regulations across each asset class
• Understanding the future state model which will involve a migration onto our strategic platforms
• Interpreting the changes to regulation and detailing the impact on our data flow/tech stack
• Documenting the requirements and working with upstream source system providers to ensure they meet their obligations
• Work closely with Business Analysts, Operations and Business Change teams in articulating and defining requirements
• Working with development teams to ensure requirements are understood
• Defining scope of testing, working with testers, validating test results
• Support the existing applications, assist in diagnosis and resolutions of issues

Responsibilities

Skills required

• 5 years minimum experience of being a business analyst, ideally in the tech space
• Ability to write complex functional requirements in both agile and waterfall methodologies
• Experience with JSON and XML schemas
• Experience of regulatory reporting regimes e.g. CFTC, NFA, SEF and awareness of upcoming changes
• Experience or knowledge of any surveillance platforms
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience with SQL and the ability to query db's
• Experience of data analysis/data mapping and familiarity with data schemas
• Knowledge of transaction lifecycle

Nice to Have

• Experience of EMEA regulatory reporting regimes e.g. MiFID, EMIR and awareness of upcoming changes
• Experience of working with reference data related to transaction reporting
• High level understanding of the IDB market and capital markets in general
• Experience with the architecture of third-party reporting services e.g. DTCC