Senior Business Analyst - Fixed Income Integration

Luxoft; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a Fixed Income Integration Business Analyst to join our client, a leading Australian financial institution, to implement and configure Bond and Repo products. You will work at the intersection of business and technology, ensuring seamless trade lifecycle management from execution through settlement.

You will configure bond static data, manage Bloomberg TOMS/VCON trade flows, and define data license feeds for downstream risk and settlement systems, while collaborating with front

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Capital Markets with emphasis on Fixed Income (Bonds/Repos).
• Experience with Bond/Repo trade lifecycle, settlement, and data management.
• Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS/VCON for trade capture and order management.
• Knowledge of SWIFT settlement messaging (MT 540–548).
• Experience integrating trade flows, static data, and settlements across front-to-back systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as BI Analyst for Fixed Income integration workstreams, covering bond/Repo setup, trade lifecycle, and settlement on the client’s platform.
• Configure and validate bond static data from external sources (Bloomberg/Refinitiv).
• Integrate Bloomberg TOMS/VCON trade flows, define trade capture requirements, and mapping.
• Document requirements for Bloomberg Data License feeds and downstream consumption.
• Support end-to-end trade lifecycle from capture to settlement instructions.

Skills

Capital Markets

Fixed Income

Bond & Repo

Trade lifecycle

Bloomberg TOMS

Bloomberg VCON

SWIFT messaging

Data integration

Agile

Tools

FIX/ISO messaging (FIX)

API integration

XML/JSON

Job description

Project description

An opportunity is available for a Fixed Income Integration Business Analyst to join our client, a leading Australian financial institute, as a key contributor to the implementation and configuration of Bond and Repo products. This role involves integrating trade flow from upstream interfaces, security static data setup, and managing end-to-end fixed income settlements. The successful candidate will work at the intersection of business and technology, ensuring seamless trade lifecycle management from execution through to settlement.

Responsibilities

• - Serve as the Business Analyst for Fixed Income Integration workstreams, covering Bond and Repo product setup, trade lifecycle, and settlement on the client's clearing/risk platform.
• - Configure and validate Bond static data setup sourced from external agencies like Blomberg, Refinitiv.
• - Manage integration of Bloomberg TOMS and VCON trade flows into the trading platform defining trade capture requirements, message mapping, FIX/API specifications, and exception handling.
• - Define and document requirements for Bloomberg Data License (DL) feeds — security reference data, pricing, corporate actions, yield curves — and their consumption by downstream risk and settlement systems.
• - Support the full Bond and Repo trade lifecycle from trade capture, validation, enrichment, position management, through to netting and settlement instruction generation.
• - Work with externa custodians to setup account, end to end integration of Security settlements.
• - Define and validate SWIFT settlement messaging requirements covering Secuirty, Cash settlements.
• - Perform gap analysis between current-state and target-state for fixed income trade processing, static data management, and settlement workflows.
• - Facilitate workshops with Front office, Operations, and Technology teams to elicit requirements and validate integration designs.
• - Support UAT and end-to-end testing of trade flows, static data loads, and settlement message generation.

Skills

• - 5+ years of experience in Capital Markets with a strong focus on Fixed Income (Bonds and Repos).
• - Understanding of various bond products like Fixed / Floating Rate, T-Bills, Zero Coupon and Asset Backed.
• - Understanding of Repo-specific processing open vs term repos, repo rate conventions, haircuts, close leg generation, substitution.
• - Excellent knowledge of the Bond and Repo trade lifecycle pricing, trade capture, confirmation and settlement.
• - Hands-on experience with Bond static/security master setup from interfaces like Blomberg / Refinitiv, reference data sourcing.
• - Hands-on experience with Trade Life Cycles, workflows, Settlements, FIX, JSON and XML messaging integration.
• - Good understanding of security settlement models, netting, and CSD/custodian interactions.
• - Strong understanding of SWIFT MT 540–548 settlement messages, message structure, matching rules, and settlement status workflows.
• - Experience with integration design defining interface specifications, data mapping, FIX protocol, API connectivity, and file-based feeds between front-office and post-trade systems.
• - Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS and/or Bloomberg VCON for trade order management and trade capture in fixed income.
• - Demonstrated experience in business analysis requirements elicitation, User story preparation, data flow documentation, and stakeholder facilitation.
• - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to data quality and reconciliation.
• - Strong communication and interpersonal capabilities for effective collaboration across trading desks, operations, technology, and external custodians.
• - Experience working within Agile project environments.

Nice to have

• - Experience with Nasdaq Calypso, Eqlipse (clearing, risk, or CSD modules), Murex or other trading platforms
• - Knowledge of SWIFT ISO 20022 (MX) messaging structure, experience in MT to MX migration.
• - Knowledge of SQL, XML, and integration technologies (e.g., IBM MQ, & REST APIs).
• - CFA / FRM or other BA certifications are desirable