Capital Markets Analyst

Corus Consulting an Alten Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Corus Consulting an Alten Company in New York is seeking a seasoned Business Analyst Lead for Capital Markets. You will lead business analysis across trading, post-trade, risk, treasury, reporting and integration systems, ensuring functionality and controls as platforms modernize.

You will coordinate domain BAs and SMEs, map processes, define acceptance criteria, maintain traceability, support cutovers, and collaborate with front-to-back offices and risk teams to drive successful transformations.

Qualifications

• Must have 10+ years as a BA with strong Capital Markets/Investment Banking experience.
• Expertise in trade lifecycle and one or more of Equities, Fixed Income, Rates, Treasury, Market Risk or Post-Trade.
• Experience with complex financial applications and technology transformation.
• Strong process mapping, requirements, traceability, UAT and reconciliation capabilities.
• Excellent English and ability to engage senior business and engineering stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate domain BAs, business owners and application SMEs.
• Document current processes, business functionality, critical controls and dependencies.
• Lead fit-gap analysis and capture functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Translate trade-lifecycle and Capital Markets requirements into clear acceptance criteria.
• Maintain requirements traceability and manage change impact.
• Support application rationalization and target-process design.
• Define UAT scenarios and coordinate business validation and data reconciliation.
• Work with front-, middle- and back-office, risk, finance and operations stakeholders.
• Support cutover decisions, readiness and KT.

Skills

Capital Markets

Business Analysis

Stakeholder Engagement

Requirements Traceability

UAT

Reconciliation

Job description

Role: Business Analyst Lead – Capital Markets

Location: NYC,NY Onsite

Role overview

Lead business analysis for complex trading, post-trade, Market Risk, Treasury, reporting and integration applications, preserving business functionality and controls as systems modernize.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate domain BAs, business owners and application SMEs.
• Document current processes, business functionality, critical controls and dependencies.
• Lead fit-gap analysis and capture functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Translate trade-lifecycle and Capital Markets requirements into clear acceptance criteria.
• Maintain requirements traceability and manage change impact.
• Support application rationalization and target-process design.
• Define UAT scenarios and coordinate business validation and data reconciliation.
• Work with front-, middle- and back-office, risk, finance and operations stakeholders.
• Support cutover decisions, readiness and KT.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years as a BA with strong Capital Markets/Investment Banking experience.
• Expertise in trade lifecycle and one or more of Equities, Fixed Income, Rates, Treasury, Market Risk or Post-Trade.
• Experience with complex financial applications and technology transformation.
• Strong process mapping, requirements, traceability, UAT and reconciliation capabilities.
• Excellent English and ability to engage senior business and engineering stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Pricing, P&L, valuation, securities settlement and accounting flows.

Capital Markets depth is essential: generic IT BAs without domain knowledge should not be prioritized.