Cash Equity Lead Business Analyst (VP) – Investment Bank recruitment
Responsibilities:
• Providing detailed functional systems analysis and secondary support to Equity Trading business
• Leading a team, balancing multiple projects and managing relationship with senior stakeholders and various parties including the application teams, off-shore development team, business management, product development team and various front-office trading desks
• Capture requirements from business senior IT stakeholders in developing detailed functional specifications for strategic projects
• Development, writing, and communication of business requirements for the design and implementation of business solutions for initiatives with high visibility
• Proactively identify any process improvements and drill down into the details of the business requirements and understand all aspects of the requirements
• Business consulting continuous improvement: research best practices and identify/assess options for the improved processes/systems/strategies
Requirements:
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Min. 10 years experience in the investment banking industry with 5+ years solid BA experience
• Good understanding of equity trading business such as Cash Trading, Program Trading and Index Arbitrage/High frequency trading is required. Knowledge of Equity Derivatives and Synthetic products is a bonus
• Good understanding of equity trading system, exchange connectivity protocol and market rules in APAC
• Experience in specifying deploying and supporting equity trading systems
• Proven record of significant contribution to complex trading application development and deployment projects
• Good communication and technical skills, ability to handle complicated system and integration problems are also required
• Knowledge of Unix (Sun Solaris, Linux), Windows, scripting, SQL
• Requirements analysis: UML, data modeling, prototyping tools
• Good concept of the FIX protocol, Reuters Market Data
• Client-focused and value-driven, able to adapt to fast and dynamic business changes
• Passionate to drive major IT initiatives to help business transformation
To apply, please submit your CV to anson@aptitudeasia.com