Electronic Trading Business Analyst (VP/D) – Investment Bank recruitment

Responsibilities:

• Capture requirements from business senior IT stakeholders in developing detailed functional specifications for strategic projects

• Providing detailed functional systems analysis and secondary support to electronic trading business

• 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

• 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. 8 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 electronic trading system, Algo, exchange connectivity protocol and market rules in APAC

• Experience in specifying deploying and supporting electronic 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, DMA, 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