Business Analyst - Capital Market

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PURPOSE:
• The Conduct metrics project is a critical way which will allow us to identify the conduct related risks in our organization. It will additionally support our ongoing reporting and monitoring of Conduct.
• Further this solution directly helps to ensure and support our Senior Managers to evidence their oversight of conduct outcomes under the Market Abuse Regulation. The Bank has an obligation to provide the appropriate tools to support our Senior Managers execute their responsibilities and this is a critical tool for that purpose.
• We are seeking a highly motivated Business Analyst with strong Techno-Functional skills who will work directly with multiple software teams and Surveillance users to help consistently deliver upon commitments

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Strong working knowledge of the financial products (at least one asset class). This includes understanding the nature of the products, payoff and booking consideration.
• Working knowledge of the booking systems (preferably Murex). Even though most of the data would be picked up from the data lakes (TDS3/ODL), an innate understanding of upstream TP system would be needed to appreciate the context of the data
• Data skills and ability to solutionise based on business requirements. There is a possibility that many of the business requirements may be high level and business analyst support in the solutioning based on these inputs.
• In addition, BAs are expected to have good data base skills and working knowledge of KDB databases. Most of the input data related to trades may come in an XML format (MXML and otherwise), so BAs are expected to have an ability to read through the data in an XML format.
• Detailing of variables - There are multiple upstream systems which may be supplying similar data which needs to be accumulated through a same field (for e.g. quantity in a trade or an actor id), it is important to make sure that the analysis is done over a wider spectrum of data so that the data coverage is as exhaustive as possible.
• Challenge of Normalisation - Disparate upstream systems create another level of complexity related to normalisation of the data and it is critical for surveillance processes. Surveillance team would expect BAs to work proactively to normalise the data in-addition to the mapping activities
• Business focused solutioning - Surveillance team expects BAs to play a techno functional role by partnering with business to come up with creative solutions to help in solving business problems. Focus of the BAs must be on providing a holistic solution instead of individual JIRAs so that the solution is complete and comprehensive.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

Functional Skills (Experience desired):
• Trade Surveillance process and systems like MANTAS, SMARTS
• Financial Markets domain knowledge (FX, Rates, Commodities, Credit, Equities)
• FM Trade types (FX Spot, Forward, Swaps, IRS, CDO, Options, Repo, Bonds etc) and systems like Murex, S2BX or equivalent FX trading platforms, Order Management systems.
• Very good knowledge of Trade/Order/Quote life cycle
• Must have done large data linkage / mapping documentation
• Prior experience in Financial institutions preferably in compliance tech space
• Strong data and business analysis skills

Technical Skills:
• Solid data analysis experience including tools like Excel, VBA, Shell scripting or Java programming skills.
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as KDB+ / Q / Java / Hadoop

Soft Skills:
• Highly organized and a self-starting individual
• Ability to accept and resolve team indicated impediments to delivery and work within the organization to remove these impediments efficiently.
• Ability to work directly with unit management to participate in strategic development and growth plans for teams and organization in terms of scrum acceptance and maturity as well as opportunities for team growth.
• Ability to coach teams toward self-management and self-organization.
• Ability to guide teams towards continual improvement through routine team inspection during retrospectives.
• Possess a high degree of adaptability within a work environment and the ability to coach others directly and effectively.
• Ability to recognize organizational barriers and work with executive management to address them or transform them into opportunities.

Experience:
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience in Capital Markets)
• 10+ years of Business Analysis experience

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