Securities Services BA - Settlements & Post-Trade

Albany Beck; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Albany Beck, a specialist financial services consultancy, seeks an experienced Business Analyst with strong knowledge of Settlements and Custody/Securities Services to support business and technology change initiatives across post-trade and asset servicing functions.

The role requires rapid understanding of complex operational workflows, close collaboration with SMEs, and delivering improvements across the trade lifecycle through well-documented requirements, user stories, and test scenarios.

Qualifications

• Proven Business Analyst experience within Custody Banking, Asset Servicing, or Securities Services environments.
• Strong understanding of securities settlements across equities, fixed income, and other financial instruments.
• Good knowledge of global custody and post-trade processes.
• Experience documenting requirements using user stories, BRDs, FRDs, process flows, and data models.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to challenge and influence senior business stakeholders.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.
• Knowledge of SWIFT messaging (MT and ISO20022 formats).
• Understanding of T2S, CSDR, CREST, Euroclear, Clearstream, DTCC, or other market infrastructures.
• Experience with custody platforms, settlement platforms, or asset servicing systems.
• Exposure to regulatory change initiatives impacting Securities Services.
• Familiarity with SQL, data analysis, and reconciliation processes.

Responsibilities

• Work with Operations, Product, and Technology stakeholders to gather, document, and validate business requirements.
• Analyse current-state processes and define target operating models across settlement and custody functions.
• Facilitate workshops with SMEs to identify process improvements, operational risks, and automation opportunities.
• Produce high-quality business requirements, functional specifications, process maps, user stories, and test scenarios.
• Support change initiatives impacting settlements, custody, asset servicing, cash and securities processing.
• Perform gap analysis between current and future state processes and systems.
• Collaborate with development and testing teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Assist with UAT planning, execution, defect management, and business sign-off activities.
• Ensure solutions align with regulatory, market, and operational requirements.
• Support implementation activities and post-go-live stabilisation.

Skills

Business Analysis

Securities Services

Stakeholder Management

Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid

SQL/Data Analysis

Tools

SWIFT MT/ISO20022

Job description

Albany Beck, a specialist financial services consultancy, seeks an experienced Business Analyst with strong knowledge of Settlements and Custody/Securities Services to support business and technology change initiatives across post-trade and asset servicing functions.

The role requires rapid understanding of complex operational workflows, close collaboration with SMEs, and delivering improvements across the trade lifecycle through well-documented requirements, user stories, and test scenarios.