Senior Systems Business Analyst (FX Team)

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Culture Celebration Day

Private medical care

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Professional trainings

Wellbeing Program

Onboarding Program

We value diverse experiences

Job summary

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) in Kraków is seeking a Senior Systems Business Analyst (FX Team) to lead analysis for critical FX applications. The role sits in our Kraków office with a hybrid schedule: three days in the office and two days remote, enabling collaboration with traders and engineers across the full project lifecycle.

You will translate complex business needs into clear requirements, drive solution options, and partner with architecture and delivery teams to ensure on-time,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, Finance, Economics or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in systems or business analysis across SDLC.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery for FX initiatives and define scope, risks, and options.
• Facilitate workshops with traders, ops, product owners, and engineers to align priorities.
• Create clear documentation: business/functional requirements, use cases, and data-flows.
• Translate complex business needs into actionable specifications for tech teams.
• Partner with architecture and engineering to address non-functional and data requirements.
• Guide delivery teams, support impact assessments, and drive issue resolution.
• Define testing approach and coordinate UAT to ensure quality and readiness.
• Support release planning, user training, and post-release validation.
• Manage requirements changes and communicate risks and trade-offs.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Requirements analysis

Agile methodologies

Communication

SQL basics

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT/Finance/ Economics or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

MS Visio

Job description

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships. We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

Join us as a Senior Systems Business Analyst (FX Team) Location: Kraków Hybrid model: Hybrid model 3 days per week in the office / 2 days for a parent of a child up to 4 years old

About the team:

We are seeking an experienced, technically skilled, and self-motivated Senior Systems Business Analyst to join our Foreign Exchange team in Krakow.

In this role, you will lead the analysis and definition of solutions for business-critical applications used by BBH FX traders in New York. You will partner with senior business and technology stakeholders, shape solution scope and priorities, and drive high-quality outcomes across the full project lifecycle. The role requires strong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to translate complex business needs into clear, actionable requirements and sustainable system solutions.

In our team, you will be responsible for:

• Build and apply deep knowledge of FX business processes, system architecture, data flows, integrations, and application functionality to assess business needs and solution feasibility.
• Lead requirements discovery for complex initiatives, define scope and objectives, identify dependencies and risks, and recommend practical solution options.
• Facilitate workshops and discussions with traders, operations, product owners, architects, developers, QA specialists, and other stakeholders to align priorities and resolve ambiguity.
• Produce and maintain high-quality analysis documentation, including business and functional requirements, use cases, process and data-flow models, screen designs, acceptance criteria, and traceability matrices.
• Act as a trusted liaison between business and technology teams, constructively challenging requests and ensuring that proposed solutions deliver measurable business value.
• Partner with architecture and engineering teams during solution design, validating that non-functional, data, control, and operational requirements are understood and addressed.
• Provide day-to-day guidance to delivery teams, clarify requirements, support impact assessments, and lead root cause analysis for complex production or testing issues.
• Define and support the testing approach, review test coverage, coordinate user acceptance testing, and ensure that solutions meet agreed business requirements and quality standards.
• Lead business readiness and release activities, including implementation planning, release communications, training, user documentation, and post-release validation.
• Proactively manage requirement changes, decisions, assumptions, and open issues while communicating status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders.
• Contribute to roadmap and backlog refinement, helping prioritize work based on business value, risk, dependencies, and delivery capacity.
• Champion Agile principles and collaborative ways of working while adapting analysis techniques to the needs of each initiative.

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree; a field such as Accounting, Banking, Economics, Finance, Computer Science, or Management Information Systems is preferred. At least 5 years of proven experience in systems or business analysis, including ownership of complex requirements and delivery across the systems development lifecycle.
• Experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, and MS Visio or equivalent process‑modelling tools.
• Demonstrated ability to lead analysis activities, facilitate senior stakeholder discussions, and influence decisions without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to structure ambiguous problems and communicate clear recommendations.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and Agile delivery practices, including backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, testing, and release readiness.
• Technical fluency sufficient to work effectively with engineers and architects, including knowledge of SQL, databases, APIs or system integrations, data flows, and infrastructure concepts.
• Experience with business‑critical front‑office applications, controls, regulatory change, or production support.
• Knowledge of foreign exchange, capital markets, trading workflows, or financial services technology is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, negotiation, and organizational skills.
• Fluent English.

What we offer:

• To encourage cultural awareness and philanthropy, BBHers have 1 Culture Celebration Day and 1 Community Service Day in addition to their paid standard vacation allowance
• Private medical care
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program - offering independent and confidential counselling services for you and your family. You can get support for topics including family, marriage and relationships, finances, and legal issues.
• Professional trainings and qualification support
• Wellbeing Program
• Online Social Fund benefit platform
• Social, sport and integration events
• Onboarding Program for new hires
• We value diverse experiences.
• We value diverse experiences and transferrable skillsets.
• If your career hasn’t followed a traditional path, includes alternative experiences, or doesn’t meet every qualification or skill listed in the job description, please do go ahead and apply.

About BBH:

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions and partnership approach to client management. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges. Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us. We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do. We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development—so we are never possessive about our ideas. Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice—creating success that lasts. No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas. BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help. Expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another. We believe stability is a competitive advantage, but being stable means having the knowledge, skill, and discipline to evolve, often—pushing the boundaries of innovation. As a private partnership, every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products and development we believe are in the long‑term interests of our clients and our people. Our long‑tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day‑to‑day business, taking the time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers. Because we know, our success begins with yours. Go to BBH.com to learn more about our rewards and benefits, philanthropy, approach to sustainability or how we support you to thrive personally, physically and financially. Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a global financial services firm known for premium service and specialist expertise. BBH works with leading asset managers, financial institutions, private businesses and their owners, wealthy families, and sophisticated institutional investors. As a private partnership, we are uniquely built to put clients first and create success that lasts. We believe our success starts with yours. At BBH, partnership is more than just a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships. Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges. No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas and perspective. BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help – which is why expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another. Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us. We believe stability is a competitive advantage, but being stable means having the knowledge, skill, and discipline to evolve, often—pushing the boundaries of innovation. Every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products and development we believe are in the long‑term interests of our clients and our people. Our long‑tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day‑to‑day business, taking time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.