Senior Business Analyst- Equities

TP ICAP; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 800,000 - 1,050,000; Full time

Job summary

TP ICAP is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join the Equity delivery team within Technology Change Management in Hong Kong. The role focuses on eliciting, analysing and communicating detailed business requirements to enable change across TP ICAP IT systems.

You will lead cross-functional delivery in a regulated environment and influence stakeholders from multiple business units. The role requires strategic thinking, strong communication, and experience in Agile/SAFe environments with a

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a business analyst, preferably with finance or trading background.
• Knowledge of trading applications, order management and full trade lifecycle.
• Understanding of the full project life cycle from requirements capture through to implementation, testing and delivery.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines and priorities.
• Ability to elicit and articulate requirements between business and IT stakeholders.
• Identify and evaluate AI opportunities within business processes and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Owners and Development to design and build software solutions aligned to IT strategy.
• Own and drive development of key features to completion.
• Lead analysis of stakeholder objectives and translate into clear requirements for scope and prioritisation.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of features with regulatory alignment.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, documentation and communication.
• Govern scope definition and estimation using domain and business knowledge.
• Communicate progress and proactively raise risks and dependencies.
• Mentor junior analysts and promote best practices within the BA community.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Requirements elicitation

Agile/SAFe

Financial/trading domain knowledge

Analytical thinking

Tools

Jira

Job description

Role Overview

This Senior Business Analyst role is an integral part of the Equity delivery team within TP ICAP Technology Change Management. The primary responsibility of this role is to elicit, analyse and communicate detailed business and operational requirements to enable change across TP ICAP IT systems. This role demands strategic thinking, stakeholder influence, and the ability to lead cross‑functional delivery in a complex, regulated environment. The goal is to ensure these changes align strategically with the needs and expectations of stakeholders from multiple business units.

Role Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product Managers, Product Owners and Development to design and build quality software solutions that align to the IT strategy/vision.
• Take ownership and accountability for development of key features and drive to completion.
• Lead in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, challenging problem statements to deliver clear requirement documentation to allow scope and prioritisation.
• Drive end‑to‑end delivery of features, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Leverage AI tools to enhance analysis, documentation and stakeholder communication, accelerating BA deliverables while identifying efficiency improvements and sharing best practices across the team.
• Support the team through governance of defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging domain and business knowledge.
• Communicate effectively on progress and ensure impediments, risks and dependencies are tracked and raised early to minimise impact to the delivery.
• Assist team members to understand the focus and delivery value of each milestone and each release.
• Proactive in supporting the team's engagement in a well‑defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs.
• Deliver against both Functional and Non‑functional requirements.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, influencing prioritisation and scope decisions.
• Mentoring junior analysts and contribute to the development of best practices across the BA community.
• Contribute to the evolution of TP ICAP's Equities delivery strategy by identifying opportunities for innovation and efficiency.
• Manage ad‑hoc tasks as required.

Experience / Competences

Essential

• Proven experience operating as a business analyst, preferably with finance or trading background.
• Knowledge of trading applications, order management and understanding of full trade lifecycle.
• Understanding of the full project life cycle from requirements capture through to implementation, testing and delivery.
• Ability to work on multiple projects whilst managing challenging deadlines and differing priorities.
• Demonstrate ability to illicit and articulate requirements between business and IT stakeholders.
• Identify and evaluate AI opportunities within business processes and workflows.
• Define requirements for AI‑enabled solutions, ensuring alignment with data, validation, governance, compliance and risk management standards.
• Critically evaluate and offer challenge to design, approach or tooling to achieve the best outcome for the project.
• Adept at working in Agile/Agile SAFe delivery environment, exhibiting strong communication skills including collaboration with local and remote team members.
• Knowledgeable in Jira or similar issue management system.
• Appreciation of the full SDLC and driving the importance of quality throughout this process.
• Support governance processes including estimation, scope definition and milestone tracking.
• Contribute to functional testing of developed features to ensure these meet the delivery criteria.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive and independent approach to problem solving and innovative solutions.
• Self‑starter with initiative and adaptability.
• Results‑oriented with a service mindset and accountability.
• Ability to develop new skills and understand new technology as required.
• Clearly interprets and documents complex information to communicate project requirements effectively and concisely.

Desired

• Background and domain experience within Equity and Equity derivative products.
• Knowledge of trade and order management.
• Familiarity of FIX and trade messaging protocols.
• Experience with TDD, BDD or similar approaches to specifying requirements and design.

Band & Level

Manager, 6

Location

Hong Kong - 21st Floor - One Hennessy - Wan Chai