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Job Description
Department Overview:
The Financial Markets (FM) landscape is changing rapidly due to intensified digitalisation and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions. Very liquid products are highly electronic whilst some products (e.g. Fixed Income) are in the process of accelerated electronification. Derivative products are less electronic but are included in several trading mandate regulation.
Within Front Office, the BA/PO/PM team (a.k.a. “Customer Journey Experts”) supports the controlled delivery of business application changes and consists of senior Business Analysts, Product Owners and Product Managers, with expertise in Business Analysis, Workflows, Test/Release Management and Business Consultancy, aligned to the Financial Markets (FM) business area. Their in-depth knowledge of the end-to-end business processes for the products underpinning the FM business (e.g. Cash Equities, Securities Finance, Derivatives, FX, Fixed Income and Commodities) ensures that they are able to provide the required business-focussed support to the squads and product areas to which they are assigned.
Main Duties and Responsibilities of Role:
As a Business Analyst for the Commodities Trading desk, you will undertake a wide range of activities to successfully deliver change initiatives aligned to the strategic goals of the desk. This function will need to encompass the following roles & responsibilities under the One Agile Way of Working (OAWoW).
Your role:
- Combining market and systems knowledge, product management and business expertise to deliver new features and new workflows for Commodities Trading.
- You are the interfacing function between various stakeholders (Trading, Sales, Ops, IT, Markets, Software vendor partners).
- Helping the desk understand the challenges and the complexities of end-to-end workflow/product implementation, and how technology and process can be used to solve them.
- You are one of the voices of the business to the squads.
Your responsibilities:
- Collaboration with traders to gather and document business requirements for sign-off.
- Working with the developers to design the target solution.
- You are at the forefront the implementation of the solution, having regular checkpoints with the development team.
- Taking an active role in user acceptance testing (UAT), verifying against the requirements and taking to end users sign-off.
- Participating in the demo of new features, and, in some cases, creating user guides, cheat sheets for the new functionality delivered.
- Providing training for users on new features, informing the support team of changes made at each release.
- The point of contact for business-related queries you relay these queries to the Product Owner, and help get them prioritised.
- Work with the Product Owner to create stories and assist with sprint planning or stakeholder management.
- Act as a bridge between the business users and the development team.
Career Potential
Further expansion of strategic business capabilities to allow movement into a more senior role, such as Product Area Lead or Tribe Lead.
Candidate Profile
Qualification/Education
Essential:
Experience/Knowledge/Skills
Essential
- Overall, 5+ years-experience in banking and finance.
- Commodities products content knowledge and proven experience working with Sales and Trading desks.
- Content knowledge include: Swaps, Options, Futures, Pricing
- In-depth knowledge of, at least, one Commodities sub-asset class: Oil, Metals, Power and Gas, Carbon
Who are we looking for:
- Assured and well-spoken.
- Works in a structured manner and can demonstrate strong organisational skills.
- Collaborative approach to projects that require coordination across multiple teams.
- Able to work in a fast-paced Front Office environment
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