Senior Business Analyst - Trading controls

Arm; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm in London is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with experience in banking and trading controls to contribute to the Trading Controls Programme. The role focuses on supervising workstreams, governance and policy design, with three days on-site in hybrid mode.

You will lead requirements elicitation, define mandate responsibilities, build a product taxonomy, and align controls with risk management. Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to produce BRs, test scenarios and implementation plans

Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis or change delivery within financial markets or banking environments.
• 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 relationships between authorities, product data, permissions, controls, risk reporting and supervisory oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis and target-state design across Mandates, Product and Trading Supervision.
• Elicit requirements through workshops, stakeholder interviews, scenario analysis, process reviews and use cases.
• Define desk and individual trading mandate responsibilities with clear lineage to business strategy and risk appetite.
• Develop the Product Taxonomy framework, governance and change processes.
• Support implementation of the New Product Policy and governing Product List ownership.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Requirements elicitation

Traceability

Business process analysis

Regulatory/workflow knowledge

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.