Lead Analyst

StoneX Group Inc.; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

StoneX Group Inc. is seeking a senior Business Analyst to translate complex financial requirements into clear functional flows and user stories.

You will work within an agile team to define processes, data models, and interface specifications across payments-related modules, ensuring alignment with acceptance criteria and test plans. The role requires experience with trade instruments, SWIFT/ISO messaging, and SQL for data extraction, with strong communication and documentation skills.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Analyst with enterprise financial applications.
• Familiarity with payments processing and related instruments.
• Ability to draft process flows and activity diagrams.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and testing alignment with user stories.
• Proficiency in SQL for data extractions and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Understand business requirements and translate into functional flows and user stories.
• Perform SDLC activities including requirements gathering, feasibility, specifications, interfaces and test cases.
• Create As-Is and To-Be models to map business processes.
• Collaborate in an agile cross-functional team with business and architects.
• Develop and maintain functional design across platform modules.
• Define and manage requirements as user stories and UI/service interfaces.
• Document and maintain user stories, functional design and system specs.

Skills

Business Analyst

Payments processing

Trade instruments

Communication skills

Process flows

Activity diagrams

SQL queries

SDLC

Tools

SWIFT MT messages

ISO MX messages

Agile

Job description

Overview

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

Overview

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, The StoneX Group is made up of four segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Corporate:

Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.

Responsibilities

Primary duties will include

• Understand business requirements and translate into functional flows and User Stories across various application modules present in the EIT Landscape.
• Undertake business analyst roles covering SDLC phases (requirements gathering, feasibility study, functional specifications, interface specifications, test cases).
• Create business models (As-Is and To-Be) and logical data models representing business flows.
• Work in an agile cross functional team and collaborate with the business and architect team to help identify and define flows and solutions.
• Create and maintain the Functional design for the various modules in the platform.
• Identify, create, and maintain Functional Requirements as User Stories, User Interface requirements and Service interface requirements
• Document and maintain User Stories, Functional Design, and System Specification.
• Follow the SDLC process established in the organization and create and maintain all relevant requirements artefacts

Qualifications

To land this role you will need

• 8-12 years of Business Analyst experience with enterprise level financial applications
• Prior experience with Payments processing application(s).
• Basic knowledge about trade instruments like Spot, Forwards NDF etc.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation of complex information and data).
• Ability to draft Process Flows, and Activity Diagrams.
• Well versed with SWIFT MT messages (MT1/2/9 series of messages).
• Well versed with ISO MX messages (Customer to Bank and Bank to Bank space).
• Well version with the various stages involved in the Payments processing.
• Identifying and making sure that the test cases are aligned to the acceptance criteria in the user story with the inclusion of the boundary conditions.
• Basic knowledge on writing SQL queries for extractions required for the data analysis.