The Senior Business Analyst is a functional specialist working with all stakeholders from his IT Division and aligned Business division to define and document Business needs and software requirements. The BA advises, reports and alerts top optimize and enhance solutions favouring the delivery of value. You will belong to Functional Community with all Business Analysts and Functional Architects. This will cover the whole cycle from requirement gathering, specifications and testing until the delivery to production including the following responsibilities:
 

Mandatory Skill(s)

• At least 10 years of experience as a business analyst in a financial organization and more specifically on Market Data administration domain;
• Relevant experience in FPML format;
• Relevant experience on Asset Control software;
• Exposure to the Capital Markets with proficiency in financial instruments (Bonds, Rates, Equity, etc..), trading lifecycle and specifically market data;
• Relevant experience with working with external source like Bloomberg, Reuters;
• Expertise in static market data with knowledge of data types, sources, and uses within financial systems, including reference data, price data;
• Proven experience in technical proficiency with strong skills in SQL, Excel and possibility programming languages like Python or R for data manipulation and analysis. Familiarity with database management and querying;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both team mates and management;
• Ability to convey clearly and concisely ideas in a concrete and coherent way;

Desirable Skill(s)

• Ability to easily communicate with multi-cultural team members;
• Experience in Back Office system (Summit, Calypso) or Front-Office or Market Risk;
• Usage of tools such as MS Office / Sharepoint / Project / Visio, Jira, GIT;
• Understanding of UML;
• Other Professional Skills and Mind-set;
• Proficient software development life cycle;
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills;
• Autonomy to include implicit deliverables in assignment based on best practices;
• Strong appetite to learn both functional and technical new domain;
• Appetite to participate to communities;
• Strong sense of confidentiality;
• Willing to do L3 Support if required.

Responsibilities
Ensure business requirement analysis activities;

• Analyse Business requirement based on prioritization given by POl;
• Help the PO and the team in decomposing requirements into detailed stories;
• Translate requirements into cases into Functional Specification documents; 

Ensure the functional design of the software delivered by the team;

• Support functional knowledge of the team with the help of the PO;
• Research to determine if solutions currently exist in or outside the team;
• Understand technical constraints and participate to the software design;

Ensure functional quality of the software and Production quality;

• Analyze functional change impacts on current production SLA & OLA;
• Contribute to the BDD activities by providing users scenarios;
• Contribute to the functional testing  and functional support activities;
• Contribute to deployment via functional pre-requisites, post-deployment checks;

Support the members of the team in their functional activities;

• Train new joiners and team members functionally on the software;
• Help team members in solving their functional issues;
• Ensure integration of the software in the IS in sync with the functional architect.

If you are interested in this role, click on the “Apply to this job” button below or you could also write in with your CV to Sophia Samouvelou at sophia.s@sciente.com quoting the job title.

Sophia Samouvelou
Technology Recruitment Specialist (APAC)