Junior Business Analyst

CMC Markets; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

CMC Markets is seeking a hands-on Junior Business Analyst to join the technology team, focusing on pricing and risk applications within an agile setting. You will translate business needs into clear requirements, write user stories and testable solutions, coordinating with product, development, quantitative and dealing teams from gap analysis to delivery.

You will support the development lifecycle, monitor user stories, maintain high-quality documentation, and assist in training and escalation

Qualifications

• Financial Services background is essential.
• Knowledge of FX Spot trading and Exchange Traded Products and related platforms for Equities, Futures and Options is highly advantageous.
• Understanding of Spread betting and/or CFD trading is beneficial.
• Strong commercial experience as a Business Analyst embedded in a technology team.
• Experience of conducting and supporting test activities advantageous.
• Proven experience of applying Agile software development methodologies is essential.
• Good working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Miro and Excel, and SQL advantageous.
• Experience using AI tools to support analysis advantageous.
• Team player with the ability to work independently as well as supporting the Lead BA.
• Hands On: Ability to produce detailed business requirements, configuration management, specifications, Epics and User Stories to the highest standard is essential.
• Comfortable with contributing to technical and design discussions with product, developers and business analysis teams.
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to work at a fast pace under challenging deadlines.
• Communication Skills: Ability to communicate through all levels of the project line and with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to build strong professional relationships across the business, to enable cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to present new ideas and challenge existing processes where appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and produce business requirements including gap analysis.
• Communicate with developers and analysts across front office pricing/risk.
• Capture requirements and scope testing for iterative development.
• Support development life cycle and monitor stories.
• Maintain high-quality feature documentation for risk/audit.
• Escalate issues to keep project risks low.

Skills

Financial Services

FX Spot

Spread betting

Agile

Testing

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Excel

SQL

AI tools

Communication

Problem solving

Documentation

Collaboration

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Excel

SQL

Job description

We're looking for a hands-on Junior Business Analyst to join CMC Markets' technology team, focusing on pricing and risk applications. Working in an agile environment, you'll translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories and testable solutions, connecting product, development, quantitative, dealing and vendor teams from gap analysis through to delivery.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Work with the product, business analysis and development teams to analyse, collate and produce business requirements, including gap analysis on a range of project and product initiatives.

With a strong emphasis on pricing/risk front office application development, the role will be required to communicate effectively among software developers, quantitative analysts, dealing desks, other stakeholders in the company and external vendors.

In an agile framework, the role will need to capture business requirements, produce software requirement specifications, and scope out testing requirements, which are suitable for iterative developments.

Once features are in development, the role will be required to help support the management of the development life cycle.

This involves assisting the lead BA on the monitoring of the development team, tracking user story status and feeding into the project/iteration plans, as required.

The role will be responsible for maintaining high-quality documentation on the developed features of a system, which will serve as a basis for risk assessment and for auditing purpose.

The role may require the ability to convey to the business and product teams the impact of suggested changes to help determine the impact and delivery timeframes.

Support user-training activities and related documentation.

Keep the Lead Business Analyst aware of any escalations, issues, and ad-hoc changes as soon as they arise and seek assistance and guidance where necessary so that project risks can be mitigated as early as possible.

Provide support to other members of the Business Analysis community and collaborate to achieve the CMC Groups business objectives.

General Maintain personal/professional development to meet the changing demands of the role, including all relevant regulatory and legislative training.

When dealing with all clients or colleagues ensure that we provide a clear, fair and consistent high-quality service that maintains all CMC group values.

Undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required, and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role.

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Financial Services background is essential.

Knowledge of FX Spot trading and Exchange Traded Products and related platforms for Equities, Futures and Options is highly advantageous.

Understanding of Spread betting and/or CFD trading is beneficial.

Strong commercial experience as a Business Analyst embedded in a technology team.

Experience of conducting and supporting test activities advantageous.

Proven experience of applying Agile software development methodologies is essential.

Good working knowledge of the following software is essential: Jira, Confluence, Miro and Excel, and SQL advantageous.

Experience using AI tools to support analysis advantageous.

Team player with the ability to work independently as well as supporting the Lead BA.

Strong problem-solving skills are required and the ability to take ownership of small tasks.

Hands On: Ability to produce detailed business requirements, configuration management, specifications, Epics and User Stories to the highest standard is essential.

Comfortable with contributing to technical and design discussions with product, developers and business analysis teams.

Good problem-solving skills and ability to work at a fast pace under challenging deadlines.

Communication Skills: Ability to communicate through all levels of the project line and with senior stakeholders.

Ability to communicate with development and testers at a technical level.

Ability to build strong professional relationships across the business, to enable cross-functional collaboration.

Ability to present new ideas and challenge existing processes where appropriate.

CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

CMC Markets is one of the world's first ever fin-tech companies and was launched in 1989 to break down the barriers of financial trading and make trading accessible to everyone. Our mission is to use our award-winning, Next Generation trading platform and unparalleled client service to empower millions of people to have the best trading experience out there. Our clients can trade on thousands of instruments using the best technology, supported by sophisticated charting, competitive pricing and automated execution. We're trusted by investors globally, but also by banks, brokers, funds and trading desks though our top-tier liquidity institutional offering, enabling these businesses to expand into new markets and increase revenue potential. We were recently listed on the FTSE250, and our business continues to go from strength to strength as we continue to invest in our technology and our people.