Front Office Business Analyst

Project description

To lead analysis for delivery of new product functionality for FX and Money markets products. A feasibility study is required to confirm requirements, determine solutions and estimate effort and costs.

Responsibilities

• The requirement is to complete the feasibility study and finalise cost estimates. In order achieve this there is a significant amount of Front Office analysis required. This will consist of:

o Supporting the business to gather formal Business Requirements.

o Supporting the business to review and provide input into As-is and To-Be workflows for trade booking and lifecycle.

o Detailed product analysis for FX and MMT products and support driving the solutions.

o Mapping producs into templates and carrying out detailed analysis to map pricing models.

o Providing estimates for the Front Office delivery to feed into the project approval process.

o Ability to deal with trade booking queries

o Completing project/work-stream status reports.

o General ad-hoc support for any new requirements or issues related to project.

o Supporting our Front Office as being the primary contact for tasks and issues.

SKILLS

Must have

• MUST HAVE: Business Analyst experience with SME knowledge in Money Market Products for Investment Bank
• Business analysis experience working for a top tier bank
• Excellent product knowledge across FX and MMT asset classes
• Ability to understand and map a product from term sheet data
• Ability and experience of working under pressure - both autonomously and within a team
• Ability to liaise with business and IT stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
• Solid communication skills - both written and oral
• Good overall knowledge of the Murex platform
• Good knowledge of bloomberg.
• Excellent understanding of PL, Risk and Market Data
• Excellent understanding of trade booking and trade lifecycle
• Understanding of curve construction, simulation, trade pricing
• A strong delivery track record and someone who can really take ownership of the feasibility study
• A good understanding of RET interfaces

Personal

• Work experience in the Securities Industry, preferably in a similar role
• Proactive and self-starting individual with high levels of ownership
• Strong analytical skills
• Proven ability to organise and prioritise own workload and drive results
• Flexibility to adapt to urgent tasks as well as undertaking longer-term solutions
• Strong interpersonal skills together with the ability to influence others and make decisions
• Strong problem solving skills with a logical approach
• The ability to collaborate and partner across the firm
• High attention to detail

Nice to have

Regulatory Knowledge/Experience