Business Analyst, Trading and Investment Management

NatWest Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is hiring a Business Analyst in London. This role supports the bank's trading and investment management by eliciting customer needs and documenting requirements. Candidates should have experience in a trading environment and hold a business analyst certification. The position offers hybrid working, with both full-time and part-time options available.

Qualifications

• Good understanding of Agile values, principles, and methodologies.
• Experience in a trading or portfolio management team supporting FX or derivatives.
• Inquisitive mindset and ability to learn new topics quickly.

Responsibilities

• Produce business requirements for future state design.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.
• Capture and document business and system requirements.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Business analysis tools

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Business analyst certification

Tools

Aladdin

Charles River

Murex

Job description

Overview

Join us as a Business Analyst, Trading & Investment Management

• Take on a critical role supporting the bank to achieve customer advocacy by eliciting and understanding the internal and external technology customer needs
• You'll be working in a vibrant, forward looking team and helping us to shape the future of our business
• It's a great chance to hit the ground running, take advantage of our development opportunities, and advance your career
• You'll work from home some of the time, and you'll also spend at least twice a week in our London office
• This role is available as either full time or part time with a minimum 28 hours per week

What you'll do

In your new role, you'll be producing business requirements to inform future state design, supporting teams in understanding the requirements and their linkages to the overall domain strategy. In the course of your work, we'll also look to you to build, manage and maintain a positive working relationship with stakeholders and third party suppliers across multiple franchises and functions.

• Supporting others to articulate the ideas and requirements in the format required by the team, such as use cases, user journeys, user stories and illustrations
• Capturing, validating and documenting business and system requirements and making sure that they're in line with key strategic principles
• Interacting with customers, key stakeholders and the team to obtain and document functional and non-functional needs
• Analysing existing system documentation to summarise existing system functionality as it relates to the work at hand
• Supporting the identification of team priorities based upon feedback from the customers, key stakeholders and the team

The skills you'll need

We'll look to you to bring a good understanding of Agile values, principles and methodologies with experience of working within an Agile environment. You'll need experience of applying business analysis tools and techniques and you'll also hold an appropriate business analyst certification.

• Experience in a trading or portfolio management team, supporting FX or derivatives trading or a Portfolio Manager looking at multi-asset portfolios
• An understanding of a vendor platform such as Aladdin, Charles River or Murex
• A good understanding of risk and analytics in either Fixed Income or Equities
• An inquisitive mindset and the ability to learn new topics quickly
• The ability to solve problems and facilitate groups front to back to solve them
• Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date: 03/10/2025

Ways of Working: Hybrid