01Overview
This role is for a Business Analyst for the Markets Data Store. The candidate needs to be a self-starter, willing to initiate contact with the programme team, internal and external stakeholders and capable of contributing in working groups and workshops engaging these stakeholders. The focus of the role will be to:
Consumer engagement and facilitate migration of consumers from legacy data sources to
new platform/central trade store.
Know trade & pre-trade life cycle and key business functions involved like confirmation/affirmation,
settlement, risk calculation and financial reporting.
Identify the fundamental issues/gaps/requirements in legacy data flows where same data
is copied & maintained by multiple systems
Perform detailed level, mapping out current state and future state processes and
proposing solutions where appropriate
Gathering and documentation of business and technical requirements
Manage the appropriate documentation of business requirements
Translation of business requirements into technical solution
Providing documentation and training to end-users
Ensure adherence to best practice and follow Enterprise domain principles
Understand, develop and maintain Logical data model for the trading functions in the bank
Extensive communication on a business and technical level will be required with business
and technology stakeholders and end-users and hence excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), to present reports/updates to senior management
Work closely with team of BAs, in order to cover extensive scope of product and data types, and deal with a large number of stakeholders
Liaise between the development team and business users in order to define clear and precise requirements
Business Knowledge Requirements
Experience working in data management projects
Good understanding of Global Financial Markets & IT Systems development
Experience of working alongside front, middle and back-office investment banking functions
Product knowledge across a wide selection of products (like credits, rates, FX derivatives etc.) preferred
Understanding requirements from business, analysing and raising asks for tech team to develop against the same
Current State, Impact and Gap analysis with appropriate documentation
Working with business SMEs for requirements gathering
Producing Business Requirements, Functional specification and other appropriate documentation
Defining test plans, scripts and ability to execute testing
Understanding and management of risks and issues
Implementation activities including Operational readiness, schedule of events, success criteria
Be able to solve complex problems across a broad range of disciplines (functional as well as project-orientated)
Manage dependencies, conflicts and prioritization
Technical Knowledge Requirements
Strong SQL/XLS/MS Word/PowerPoint/JIRA skills
Experience of typical investment banking technology and systems
Exposure to working in Agile teams
Microsoft office tools (excel and PowerPoint) expertise
Essential Experience: (Must have)
Prior Technical Experience in Capital Markets/Money Markets domain knowledge .
