Business Analyst (Front Office/Risk)

LUXOFT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.; Singapore; Presencial; SGD 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Luxoft Information Technology (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. is seeking a senior Business Analyst for the Bank's pre-trade RFQ workflows in Singapore.

You will collaborate with Sales, Traders and IT to define requirements, build functional specs, and ensure robust data flows across the PRICE ecosystem. You will lead workshops, validate pricing models and risk metrics, and support deployment, testing, and post-go-live improvements while aligning with cross-functional teams and QA practices in an

Qualificações

• 4+ years as a Business Analyst in market finance, with Front Office Fixed Income Rates focus.
• Expertise in Interest Rate Derivatives and pre-trade RFQ workflows.
• Strong knowledge of pricing models, DV01, yield curves, and risk metrics.
• Experience with front-to-back trading lifecycle and data quality.
• Familiarity with data mapping and transformation across systems.

Responsabilidades

• Lead business requirement analysis and workshops with stakeholders.
• Draft functional specs with clear acceptance criteria and traceability.
• Map data flows and specify data mappings between systems.
• Coordinate with technical teams for seamless integration and testing.
• Define testing strategy and participate in UAT and integration tests.
• Provide L3 functional support and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Maintain documentation and enable knowledge sharing within the PRICE app team.

Conhecimentos

Front Office Fixed Income Rates

Interest Rate Derivatives

RFQ workflows

Pricing models

DV01 / yield curves / risk metrics

Data quality analysis

Data mappings / transformations

Trading lifecycle understanding

Communication & stakeholder management

SDLC

Proactive security & risk awareness

English proficiency

Jira or similar

Python for analytics

Ferramentas

Python

SQL

Excel

GitOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Jira

Orchestrade

MarkitWire

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Descrição da vaga

Project description

Our Client is the corporate and investment banking arm of a Group, world’s 10th largest bank by total assets.
Singapore center is the 2nd largest IT setup for Group's worldwide business.
We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:
- Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems
- Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.
- Providing premium In-house Banking applications,

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.
We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

This role aims to do business analysis on SALES application, in project mode as well as maintenance, and to support the “run the bank” function. It requires a deep understanding of the nature of business operations, timing of activities & data flowing through internal and external systems. The build and support team continuously works with business users, infrastructure engineers and system managers.

The Business analyst will work on pre-trade application used by Sales to pre-book and book Rates deals. Key activities include developing features that facilitate RFQ workflows between Sales and Traders, enabling efficient communication and deal negotiation. The role involves implementing real-time pricing, deal validation logic, and ensuring seamless integration with downstream booking systems. Close collaboration with Sales and Trading stakeholders is essential to enhance the RFQ experience and support the complete deal lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Business Requirement Analysis & Workshop Facilitation:

• Organize and facilitate business workshops to collect and analyze requirements

• Collaborate with the Product Owner to prioritize and decompose requirements into detailed user stories

• Draft comprehensive Functional Specification documents with clear acceptance criteria

• Maintain traceability between business needs and technical implementation

• Process Analysis & Change Management:

• Analyze existing business processes and define optimized target processes

• Identify process gaps and transformation opportunities

• Define change management needs and support organizational adoption

• Ensure alignment between process redesign and business objectives

• Data Analysis & System Integration:

• Identify golden sources of data across the enterprise landscape

• Specify data mappings and transformations between systems

• Document data lineage and ensure data quality requirements

• Support data migration and reconciliation activities

• Application Mapping & Impact Analysis:

• Map application flows and dependencies within the PRICE ecosystem

• Assess project impacts on upstream and downstream system integrations

• Coordinate with technical teams to ensure seamless integration

• Maintain documentation of system interfaces and data flows

• Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication:

• Maintain regular contact with developers to ensure requirements are well understood and correctly implemented

• Act as liaison between business users and technical teams

• Provide L3 functional support for complex issues

• Foster collaboration between business stakeholders, Product Owner, and development team

• Testing Strategy & Quality Assurance:

• Define comprehensive testing strategy aligned with project scope

• Contribute user scenarios for BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) activities

• Participate actively in integration testing

• Organize and conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions

• Assess functional change impacts on current production SLAs and OLAs

• Production Deployment & Support:

• Participate in production start-up activities and go-live preparation

• Define functional prerequisites for deployment and post-deployment validation

• Deliver user training sessions and create training materials

• Ensure post-production follow-up and provide ongoing functional support

• Monitor production performance and gather user feedback for continuous improvement

• Knowledge Management & Team Enablement:

• Build and maintain functional knowledge within the team in partnership with the PO

• Provide functional training and onboarding for new team members

• Maintain functional documentation and knowledge base for the PRICE application

• Research existing solutions to avoid duplication and promote reuse

Skills

Must have

• 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in market finance, with specific expertise in Front Office Fixed Income Rates products

• Interest Rate Derivatives Expertise

• Good knowledge on Interest Rate Derivatives products (Interest Rate Swaps, Swaptions, Caps/Floors, FRAs, etc.)

• Good knowledge of pre-trade trading workflows and RFQ (Request For Quote) systems capture

• Understanding of pricing models, yield curves, and risk metrics (DV01, duration, convexity)

• Knowledge of Rates market conventions and day count conventions

• Trading Systems & Platforms

• Knowledge of Front Office/Risk management systems (e.g., Orchestrade)

• Familiarity with the MarkitWire Platform

• Understanding of trading lifecycle from pre-trade through settlement

• Experience with external data sources like Bloomberg and Reuters/Refinitiv

• Market Data & Standards

• Relevant experience with FPML (Financial Products Markup Language) format

• Expertise in static market data including reference data, price data, and market conventions

• Knowledge of data types, sources, and uses within financial systems

• Technical Proficiency

• Knowledge in Python for analytics and automation

• Proficiency in SQL and Excel for data manipulation and analysis

• Knowledge of DevOps practices (GitOps, Docker, Kubernetes)

• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (Elasticsearch, Kibana)

• Ability to work with complex data structures and perform data quality analysis

• Communication & Collaboration

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in an English-speaking environment

• Ability to communicate effectively with multi-cultural team members

• Strong interpersonal skills and proven team player mentality

• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills

• Experience with Jira or similar issue-tracking systems

• Professional Skills & Mindset

• Proficient in software development life cycle (SDLC)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Pro-active mindset in security and risk awareness

• Proven ability to work individually under pressure and meet tight deadlines

• Autonomy to include implicit deliverables in assignments based on best practices

• Strong appetite to learn both functional and technical domains

• Appetite to participate in communities and knowledge sharing

• Strong sense of confidentiality

• Willing to provide L3 support when required

Nice to have

• Experience with Equity products is a plus