Business Analyst- Reference Data, Equity Derivatives recruitment
Our client a global consultancy requires a lead Business Analyst to work with their client a global investment bank within the equity derivatives division.
Salary: 55k to 85k + benefits
Job Description
The Lead Business Analyst will work in the Equity Derivatives group. The Lead BA will determine the requirements of front office users who trade Equities and Equity Derivatives (Listed Futures and Options in particular). He/she will interpret and prioritize these requirements and translate them into specs that will be used to build a new system to manage reference data for Equity Derivatives.
Mandatory
- Must have exposure to Listed Futures and Options and be comfortable discussing different products, which markets they trade on, and understand the details of their construction, expiry, etc.
- Expertise in Reference Data Management (reference data feeds, systems, and operations (instrument/security reference data and pricing)
- 5-10 yrs experience in implementing projects (complete SDLC) in the Investment Banking domain and good knowledge of the overall banking IT landscape
- Sound understanding of Banking and Capital Markets industry
- Experience and expertise mandatory in requirements gathering documentation, functional specification documentation, use case documentation and functional test planning test case generation.
- Should have played customer facing role in either an operations or technology groups within the securities industry or in a service provider firm (technology or BPO/KPO type) in reference data, market data and unstructured data space.
- Should possess team management skills.
- Should be able to provide coaching/mentoring team members and provide domain guidance to technical teams as required.
- BE/MBA
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Should have superior Microsoft Office skills / expertise, especially MS Excel.
Nice to Have
- Experience with data analysis, including data mappings, data feeds, data models, and data transformation
• Experience creating and presenting solutions to clients
• Exposure to any of the reference data products and providers such as Asset Control, GoldenSource, CADIS, Eagle SRM, Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, is a BIG plus
• Hands-on experience on PL/SQL, xls, other tools such as MatLab, R etc, and on FIX, SWIFT, TIBCO BIG Data Analytics is an added advantage
• Location
London