IT Business Analyst (Post Trade) - Leading Financial Institution

PFCC Group; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

PFCC Group is seeking an IT Business Analyst (Post Trade) in Hong Kong to join a high-performing project management team driving transformation and sales enablement across Asia. You will partner with Product Owner and IT to translate business needs into viable requirements, delivering data-driven insights and end-to-end post-trade solutions.

You will shape roadmaps, analyze current and future workflows, and support UAT, risk controls, and compliance activities while collaborating with

Qualifications

• Minimum 5–8 years in business analysis, project management, or risk management in financial services.
• Experience with risk control and surveillance on investment products trading.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Owner to shape product vision, priorities and execution strategies.
• Bridge between business stakeholders and IT; translate complex needs into clear, structured requirements.
• Understand end-user pain points to deliver actionable insights for a seamless user experience.
• Perform data-driven analysis to map current vs future workflows, draft user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Design solutions to automate post-trade controls, ensuring regulatory and risk framework compliance.
• Support project scoping, process flows, timelines, UAT, blockers, and measure success.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Detail-oriented

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related discipline

Tools

AGILE/Scrum

Job description

Our client is a leading global financial services firm renowned for providing top-tier wealth management, investment banking, asset management services. This role sits within an integrated, high-performing project management team dedicated to driving the business transformation and sales enablement agenda across the Asia region. By partnering closely with Technology, business stakeholders, and various cross-functional groups, this team designs, develops, and delivers cutting-edge digital solutions that generate immense strategic value, optimize operational workflows, and elevate the end-user experience.

We are looking for a detail-oriented IT Business Analyst (Post Trade) with strong analytical thinking and solution-oriented mindset who thrives at the intersection of business strategy, user experience, and technology, this platform offers a superior foundation to accelerate your professional career, allowing you to learn, achieve, and grow within a highly collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with the Product Owner to help shape and define the overarching product vision, mid-to-long-term priorities, and tactical execution strategies, aligning product roadmaps with requirement roadmaps.
• Act as a critical bridge between business stakeholders (e.g., Sales, Trading Desks and IT). Engage in deep-dive discussions to unpack complex, ambiguous business needs and translate them into clear, structured, and technically viable requirement documentation.
• Deeply understand end-user pain points and requirements to deliver actionable insights that contribute to designing a holistic, frictionless, and seamless user experience.
• Perform detailed, data-driven business analysis to map current-state vs. future-state workflows, conduct feasibility studies, draft comprehensive user stories, outline acceptance criteria, and refine backlogs.
• Design solutions to automate trade controls at the point of trade entry and post-execution, ensuring compliance with both regulatory and internal risk frameworks.
• Streamline post-trade control activities and improve post-control and surveillance processes and practices.
• Assist in defining project scopes, process flows, deliverables, and timelines while tracking progress, eliminating dependencies and blockers, facilitating UAT activities/testing, and helping measure project success.

Qualifications and Education:

• Bachelor Degree in IT, or a related discipline.
• Min 5 to 8 years experience in business analysis, project management, or risk management covering risk control and surveillance on investment products trading.
• Possesses strong analytical thinking, solution-oriented approach, self-motivation, and meticulous attention to detail.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and facilitate discussions effectively across business functions.
• Background in Private Banking, Wealth Management and/or Retail Banking, with a basic understanding of private banking products and the trade lifecycle (e.g., order placement, execution, booking, and settlement).
• Exposure in using AGILE would be an advantage.
• Basic understanding of structured products, selling processes, order taking, or suitability frameworks.
• Good command of Chinese, including Mandarin, is an advantage.

About PFCC Group

We partner with the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions to unlock sustainable value. By merging operational excellence with the power of AI and digital transformation, we ensure our clients are equipped to lead, not just keep pace.

Bridging the Gap between Vision and Technical Mastery, we believe that even the most advanced strategy is only as powerful as the people executing it. That is why we specialize in identifying and placing high-calibre technical talent within the world’s premier financial ecosystems. Whether it’s securing mission-critical infrastructure or driving global digital shifts, we connect elite IT professionals with opportunities at global financial leaders.