Equity Business Analyst recruitment
The successful candidate must have at least 5 years Functional experience gained in the capital markets industry working for a software vendor or consultancy. This should include support and/or implementation of Front and/or Middle and Equity.
Responsibilities:
- In-depth, hands-on involvement directly with customers implementing the solution.
- Work directly with users of the system to gather and document their business requirements, and with the customer project/systems team to implement those requirements. Follow up with the users to test the implementation, achieve signoff, and continue to move the system toward go-live.
- Work hands on with the system to configure it and test it to ensure that it meets the business requirements. And it will also include the configuration of rules-based scenarios for capturing market and credit risk, general multi-factor sensitivity analyses, and PnL.
- Assist customers in identifying functional gaps in the core front or back office product, and to create detailed functional specifications for the gaps, and to determine whether those functional enhancements will be implemented by core development or as custom development by the customer’s own implementation team.
- During the development of enhancements, the business analyst will work with either the core development or customer development to iteratively test enhancements to ensure they will meet business requirements. Responsible for training users on basic use of the system, new functionality, etc. Manage issues and track timeline of development deliverable, and keep the customer informed of progress. Additionally, the business analyst will assist customers with the development of their own internal project plan, including identification of key setup and configuration tasks, scope considerations, timeline and scheduling, and resource requirements.
Skills Requirements:
- 5+ years working in systems or business analysis, preferably in the capital markets industry
- If Front Office: Detailed hands-on knowledge about industry-standard front office standards for market data management (bootstrapping algorithm), trade capture and risk. Functional experience should encompass equity.
- Strong technical skills – even though this is a business position, the candidate must be very “tech savvy” and technically self-sufficient – ability to read code will be highly valued, and experience designing/building front office systems will be especially valuable. Some knowledge of Java or C++ will be very useful.
- Strong ability to map conceptual financial and business elements to practical system capabilities. Should be able to translate front office business requirements into actual system configuration.
- Excellent interpersonal skills. The person in this role will spend significant amounts of time working hands-on educating and training customers, and patience will be key to success.
- Willingness and ability to travel frequently, as required. Previous software company experience will be highly valued. In particular, previous experience with implementing front office systems will be key to success. Must be client driven, have the ability to work within a team environment, and be focused on providing a high quality of service to the client
August 27, 2012
• Tags: Capital Markets careers in the USA, Equity Business Analyst recruitment • Posted in: Financial