Equities Project Manager / Business Analyst recruitment
This position will be responsible for carrying out front to back business and functional analysis of the Equity Derivatives platform, particularly focused on improving Trade Booking and Lifecycle functionality and metrics within the platform. The Trade Capture, Lifecycle Management STP team is situated within the Equities Risk IT department as part of Capital Markets Technology.
The key focus of this role will be to work primarily with, but not limited to, Sales, Trading Middle Office to define and manage delivery of functional requirements as part of the OTC Derivatives Post Trade Renovation Project.
Key Responsibilities:
Competencies should be related to the responsibilities, experience and skills in the Job Description. e.g.
- Building relationships with key business stakeholders in Sales, Trading and Middle Office globally.
- Develop, by working closely with the global user base - a clear understanding of the current trade booking and amendment process.
- Develop, by working closely with the global user base - a clear understanding of the desired future state trade booking and amendment process.
- Develop, by working closely with Middle Office SMEs and Project Team (BA/PMs) a series of Functional Requirements Document (FRDs) from which the Development team can develop solutions from.
- Ongoing relationship management with all users of the Trade Capture Lifecycle platform to ensure their opinions are represented in the gap analysis, roadmap planning and functional specification
Additional Responsibilities:
- Working with the Trade Capture Lifecycle team, both locally in EMEA and globally where appropriate to understand the technical challenges in the platform and look for opportunities to include improvements as part of the work.
- Representing the development team to the EMEA user community (Sales, Trading and Middle Office) and deputising for the Global Head of Equity Derivatives Trade Capture, Lifecycle STP Technology team where required.
Skills
- Experience in a front office equity derivatives BA role
- Experience of working alongside OO (preferably C#) developers
- Demonstrated experience of carrying out front to back analysis without micro-management
- Ability to structure complex, and often conflicting requirements into cohesive functional specification
- Client relationship management skills, both within the business and technology
- Degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems or Management Information Systems
- Courses / advanced degree in Finance (e.g. CQF, CISI) would be a plus
- IIBA Certification
- Prince 2 Practitioner or PMP
- Exceptional candidates who do not meet these criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience.
Knowledge/Experience:
- This role will have significant interaction with sales, trading and middle office. Therefore a good understanding of Equity Derivatives is a pre-requisite, especially in the trade booking, lifecycle and processing areas.
- Experience of extending booking functionality would be an advantage, as well as a wider understanding of finance and trade flows.
- Previous experience of managing relationships with front office and middle office users is essential.
Competencies:
- Positive Attitude
- Team player
- Delivery oriented
- Proactive and dynamic
- Primarily business driven
- Ability to contribute to regular status updates to business and technology management with sound and meaningful tangible tasks and results
- Question what is currently available and aim for the best
- Excellent communication skills
Valuing Diversity:
Demonstrates an appreciation of a diverse workforce. Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions or actions and organizational success.