Sr. Business Analyst, FX/Forex/Foreign Exchange recruitment

The successful candidate is expected to:

* Provide business analysis, documentation (functional specs, etc), test design, execution, automation, coordination and project management support for Financial Market.
* Provide subject matter expertise for design and testing with particular emphasis on pricing FX Instruments
* Assist in the requirement gathering, development, testing and test management of tactical and strategic business initiatives and coordinating the business plans, policies, and processes in support of those initiatives.
* Assist in producing functional and testing requirements for systems to serve all parts

Key Roles Responsibilities

* Build the Future State:
* Analyze, improve and enhance testing processes:
* Support Business Integration:
* Support repeatable testing:

Skill Set required:

* BA with experience in Foreign Exchange.
* Advanced experience of pricing FX trade types
* Strong general knowledge of banking business systems and a deep understanding of risk and trade flows from front to back office systems.
* Strong analysis and analysis/testing skills ideally with some project management skills.
* Knowledge of Pricing FX Instruments, FX trading, Risk Management
* Proven experience of a single dealer platform and
* Proven experience of at least one of the following FX ECNs: (Required)
* FXall, Currenex, RTFX, 360T, CFETS, BBG FX, Hotspot, Reuters 3000, EBS
* Works with stakeholders to define testing requirements
* Works with stakeholders to design and define functional requirements
* Works with product development to define test strategies.
* Works with product development to define detailed test scenarios/scripts/expected results.
* Executes documents and raises issues with project teams.
* Provides strategic planning support
* Experience writing and executing tests throughout all stages of the testing lifecycle.
* Experience managing teams of testers throughout all stages of the testing lifecycle.
* Ability to quickly extract and produce meaningful testing metrics reporting at the end of day/week.
* Experience automating testing using best of breed software tools for both server side and client side software components.
* Provides solutions to the testing issues and challenges being faced by FM in terms of people, process and technology.
* Keeps current with testing solutions available.
* Identifies and mitigates risks that would impact the overall projects failure and success.
* Creates appropriate stakeholder plans and engages them appropriately

DESIRED:
* Ideal candidate will come from past trading background.
* Experience in algorithmic trading applications
* Money market products, Interest Rate Swaps, Vanilla Options, Commodities, Government bonds, futures and options on Single Dealer or Multi-Dealer platforms (Dealer-to-Client) eg ION or Bloomberg

If the above mentioned opportunity is of you interest then kindly mail me the word document of your CV to jasprit.manocha@empiric.com
Empiric Solutions were established in 2005 and are one of the foremost providers of niche and specialist recruitment services within IT, Finance and Industry and Commerce globally. In December 2010, we became a Virgin Fast Track 100 company for the second consecutive year (3rd Fastest Growing company 2009).