Jefferson Wells Hiring for Business Analyst Job at London, England Full Time

Business Analyst

London

Contract

My Client is looking for a BA with a Finance background with broad knowledge of financial instruments, including: OTCs, Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, Securities Financing Transactions inc. Repos and Stock Borrow Lending, ETDs, FX, Equities and ETDs.

Role Objectives.

• Working within a DevOps Pod with the focus on modelling data into a new Big Data platform and producing extracts for Finance and Regulatory Reporting systems.
• Analysing and capturing functional & non-functional requirements
• Writing data mapping specifications
• Modelling trade, risk, accounting and underlying reference data from a variety of source systems covering all asset classes
• Role has a cross-functional aspect, with focus on analysis, though testing and support activities may also be undertaken in line with DevOps principles
• Taking ownership of tasks that will be delivered in bi-weekly sprint cycles
• Participation in Daily Stands-ups, Backlog Refinement and Iteration Planning meetings
• Collaborating closely with Finance Change, upstream providers and downstream data consumers to ensure data requirements are fully understood and expectations are met
• Ensuring that defects, data quality and data modelling issues are quickly resolved

Skills required

• Cross-functional business function knowledge on Front Office, MiddleOffice, BackOffice, Finance (Product Control, Accounting), Risk and Reg Reporting
• Working knowledge on capital markets cross-asset (FX, EQ, FI, Rates,Credit, Commodity) Products (Cash and Derives including Listed, OTC, Structured and Exotics)
• Working experience on Front-to-Back Trade lifecycle, Booking Models and FO-BO-GL Recs
• Previous experience on Data Modelling of Trade,Position, Product, Cashflow, Valuation, Risk, Collateral, Accounting, Client,Reference and Market Data
• Hands on Technical and Data Analysis skills on Spark SQL, Git, XML/XSD, JSON/Protobuf , REST APIs, CICD Pipelines, Data processing pipelines
• Demonstrable experience of data sourcing and data analysis skills including liaising with upstream systems and ensuring end-to-end clarity of requirements across multiple teams
• Strong technical skills, especially in both writing and interpreting SQL
• A proven track record in delivery of large scale data centric projects in previous domains to tight deadlines
• Experience of analysis techniques / methodology
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with teammates or with senior stakeholders
• Experience of an Agile/Scrum/DevOps delivery environment
• High levels of enthusiasm and a desire to deliver the best quality products possible along with maintaining very high service levels
• Broad experience of ETL type processes, data warehouse type systems and associated database technologies (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle)
• Strong working knowledge of SDLC tools including JIRA and Git.

If you feel you would be suitable, please send in your CV