Project Description:
Financial Market Digital Channels team is driven to provide world class technology to support the bank's Financial Markets business, working specifically on the bank's in-house built pricing, execution, and trade processing platform.
We bring a deep understanding of the domain, a scientific approach, and innovative solutions to bear on the challenges of best servicing our customers in a highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to join an organization working with smart technologists globally in the financial markets domain. The culture in the team is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful, and career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents willing and able to step up.
Responsibilities:
- Analyse and gain a detailed level understanding of business needs
- Coordinating with stakeholders from various project teams in Financial Markets, agree timelines and funding, manage all governance requirements in close collaboration with technical development manager
- Coordinating with cross discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules
- Be involved with workshops with FM Operations etc so that Business Requirements can be documented.
- Document Actions from the workshops and assist with the tracking of the deliverables.
- Prepare Gap Analysis, Business Requirements Documents and Project Approval Requests
- Work closely with SME experts in various areas of the business gaining an understanding of their processes.
- Document and raise any Risks and Issues to the Product Owners, Business owners and Program Management.
- Take part in project testing cycles and assist with the preparation of test packs.
- Create JIRA epics and stories, and ensure business, PO and development team are all on the same page on the requirements.
- Understand the functionalities of the current systems and process, and come up with requirements for system/process improvements.
Mandatory Skills Description:
- You must have at least 7+ years of experience with banks or product companies with strong Business Analysis and/or Project Management skills.
- Good knowledge of Trade Life Cycle.
- Practical experience in a project role as a Back Office/Post Trade Business Analyst.
- Experience in confirmation, settlement, fixing, netting, SSI, Swift, etc.
- Good understanding of one or more of the following asset classes - Rates/Commodities/FX derivatives and BackOffice processing (especially Post Trade).
- Sound business analysis skills: documenting business requirements and user stories, liaising with business stakeholders, and translating them into specifications for development & testing.
- Flexibility to wear multiple hats - Scrum master/Business Analyst/ UAT manager based on project demands.
- Experience handling release cycles for technology delivery in a financial institution.
- Strong communication and presentation skills with an excellent standard of English (written and spoken).
- Experience of working with a globally distributed team spread across different time zones.
Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
- Certifications such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, or PMP
- Knowledge and previous experience of large-scale financial markets technology platforms
- Murex, Calypso, Kondor experience
