Senior Business Analyst – Trading controls

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd in London seeks a Senior Business Analyst to support a Trading Controls programme within the banking sector. The role is 3 days onsite (hybrid) and focuses on analysis, governance, and requirements across mandates, products and supervision processes.

You will lead workshops, elicit stakeholder input, define operating models and governance, and deliver BRDs, data definitions and test scenarios in collaboration with Architecture and Technology teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis within financial markets or regulatory remediation.
• Knowledge of trading mandates, product governance, Product Taxonomy or trading supervision.
• Experience developing policies, operating models and control frameworks.
• Understanding front-to-back trading processes and risk reporting relationships.
• Strong communication, facilitation and analytical skills.
• Traceability from findings through testing and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis and target-state design across Mandates, Product and Trading Supervision.
• Elicit requirements through workshops, stakeholder interviews, scenarios and workflows.
• Define desk and mandate responsibilities with clear lineage to strategy and risk appetite.
• Support remediation and define interim/target operating models and requirements.
• Develop Product Taxonomy definitions, governance and lifecycle processes.
• Support governance on New Product Policy and Approved Product List ownership.
• Define a governed central Approved Product List and data/workflow capabilities.
• Develop Trading Supervision Policy, controls catalogue and operating models.
• Assess and prioritise real-time control improvements and the transition roadmap.
• Define risk and control escalation within the Trading Controls framework.
• Produce business requirements, functional specs, process maps, data definitions and test scenarios.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Technology and business stakeholders to validate solutions.
• Facilitate governance reviews to agree scope, dependencies, and sign-off.
• Manage requirements changes, risks, issues and delivery dependencies.

Skills

Business Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Requirements Elicitation

Process Mapping

Regulatory/Trading Controls

Risk & Controls

Job description

Senior Business Analyst - London

3 days onsite (Hybrid)

(£600 - £630 a day Umbrella Inside IR35 Umbrella)

We are looking for a Business Analyst who has experience within the banking sector working on Trading Controll Programmes

We're starting to mobilise a Trading Controls Programme and we're looking for a BA to assist on Supervisory workstream initially.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead analysis and target-state design across Mandates, Product and Trading Supervision, ensuring that requirements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous and verifiable.
• Elicit requirements through workshops, stakeholder interviews, scenario analysis, process reviews, use cases and workflow analysis.
• Define desk and individual trading mandate responsibilities, authorities and controls, with clear lineage to business strategy and risk appetite.
• Support remediation of desk and individual mandates and define interim and target mandate operating models and strategic requirements.
• Develop the Product Taxonomy framework, including product definitions, hierarchy, attributes, governance and change processes.
• Support implementation of the New Product Policy and define Product Governance and Approved Product List ownership, life cycle controls and operating models.
• Define the requirements for a governed, central Approved Product List and associated product data, workflow, control and technology capabilities.
• Develop the Trading Supervision Policy, controls catalogue and interim and target operating models, including responsibilities, standards, management information, escalation and evidence requirements.
• Assess and prioritise preventative, Real Time and near Real Time control improvements, including the transition roadmap for same-day monitoring.
• Define and embed a consistent risk and control escalation framework and align Trading Controls with the wider Risk Management Framework.
• Produce business requirements, functional specifications, process maps, data definitions, test scenarios, training materials and implementation plans.
• Work with Architecture, Technology and business stakeholders to validate solutions and integrate mandate, product and supervision requirements.
• Facilitate workshops and governance reviews to agree scope, ownership, dependencies, delivery sequencing, acceptance criteria and sign-off.
• Manage requirements change, risks, issues and delivery dependencies, escalating material impacts to scope, cost, resources, time or quality.

Qualifications and Experience

• Business analysis or change delivery experience within financial markets, trading controls, risk or regulatory remediation.
• Knowledge of trading mandates, product governance, Product Taxonomy, Approved Product Lists or trading supervision.
• Experience developing policies, operating models, control frameworks, requirements, test scenarios and implementation plans.
• Understanding of front-to-back trading processes and the relationship between authorities, product data, permissions, controls, risk reporting and supervisory oversight.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, analytical and written communication skills.
• Experience maintaining traceability from findings and requirements through testing, implementation and completion evidence.