Business Analyst

Neurones IT Asia; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Neurones IT Asia is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with strong post-trade and middle-office experience to deliver a unified target design across EMEA, Americas and APAC. You will work with Middle Office and Operations to quantify benefits such as STP uplift and reduced manual effort, while also enabling teams through tooling demonstrations and training.

The role requires hands-on trade lifecycle knowledge, advanced SQL, and the ability to translate complex requirements into functional

Qualifications

• 8+ years as a Business Analyst in post-trade, middle office or trade lifecycle tech at a bank, broker-dealer or market infra provider.
• Hands-on with trade matching and confirmation platforms (DTCC CTM, OSTTRA Harmony/MarkitWire) including STP rates, exception handling and break investigation.
• Strong SQL / T-SQL: write validation queries and reconcile outcomes across large trade populations.
• Advanced Excel for modelling, mockups and calculation validation.
• Knowledge of Fixed Income, Repo, Securities Lending, FX or cleared derivatives and post-execution lifecycle.
• End-to-end ownership from problem definition through SIT/UAT to production release.
• Experience redesigning rule-based processing into configurable, maintainable frameworks.
• Experience writing functional specs for system-to-system API contracts.

Responsibilities

• Deliver across regions (EMEA, Americas, APAC) and reconcile differing regional practices into a single target design.
• Collaborate with Middle Office/Operations to define target state and quantify benefits (STP uplift, reduced manual effort, less support intervention).
• Demonstrate tooling, document methodology and train BAs, QA and Support teams.

Skills

Business Analysis

SQL / T-SQL

Advanced Excel

Stakeholder Management

Documentation

End-to-End Ownership

Change Management

API Specs

Trade Lifecycle

Tools

DTCC CTM

OSTTRA Harmony/MarkitWire

Job description

We are looking for a Business Analyst ( Post Trade / Middle Office) for one of our banking clients, and the role scope is as below:

Role

• Proven delivery across multiple regions (EMEA, Americas, APAC) with the ability to reconcile differing regional operating practices into a single target design.
• Able to work directly with Middle Office / Operations stakeholders to define target state and quantify benefit (STP uplift, manual effort reduction, reduced support intervention).
• Track record of enabling others — demoing tooling, documenting methodology and training BAs, QA and Support teams.

Preferred

• Experience shifting a validation model from inclusion-based rules to default-STP-with-exclusions, or a comparable scope-inversion redesign.
• Familiarity with regulatory or internal control frameworks governing margin thresholds and trade scoping.
• Experience with revenue recognition timing issues (anniversary/rollover dates, accrual triggers) and remediation of historic populations.

Technical Skill set

• 8+ years as a Business Analyst in post-trade, middle office or trade lifecycle technology at a bank, broker-dealer or market infrastructure provider.
• Hands-on experience with trade matching and confirmation platforms - DTCC CTM, OSTTRA (Harmony/MarkitWire) or equivalent — including STP rates, exception handling and break investigation.
• Strong SQL / T-SQL: able to write independent validation queries, reconcile expected vs. actual outcomes across large trade populations (thousands of records), and build reusable diagnostic and test-data scripts.
• Advanced Excel for formula modelling, mockups and calculation validation.
• Working knowledge of at least two of: Fixed Income, Repo and Securities Borrowing/Lending, FX, or cleared derivatives, with understanding of the post-execution lifecycle (allocation, matching, affirmation, clearing submission, settlement).
• Demonstrated ownership of an end-to-end change from problem definition through functional specification, SIT/UAT and production release.
• Experience redesigning rule-based or hardcoded processing logic into configurable, business-maintainable frameworks (e.g. category/product hierarchies, scheduler-driven jobs), including migration and regression risk assessment.
• Experience writing functional specifications for system-to-system API contracts: request/response definitions, workflow diagrams, status handling, authorization controls and audit requirements.
• Exposure to margin, collateral or fee/revenue calculation logic — for example threshold-based margin controls, gross margin, XVA or revenue-share and rebate computations — with the ability to validate formula logic independently of the development team.