Capital Market Business Analyst

• Partner with business stakeholders to gather, clarify, and document detailed requirements that reflect strategic objectives and operational realities.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to break down requirements into actionable user stories, helping to shape product roadmaps and prioritize development efforts.
• Develop functional specifications that translate complex business needs into clearly defined software behavior, user flows, and data models.
• Act as a bridge between business and technical teams, providing insight and context to ensure alignment during solution design and development.
• Research existing tools and platforms—both in-house and third-party—to identify opportunities for reuse or enhancement.
• Participate in discussions around technical feasibility, architectural alignment, and solution design.
• Support quality assurance by contributing to functional testing, behavior-driven development (BDD) scenarios, and post-deployment validation.
• Analyze the functional impact of changes on SLAs, OLAs, and ongoing operations, ensuring business continuity and performance standards.
• Offer hands-on support during production issues, including L3 support when needed.
• Document project deliverables including specifications, estimations, test plans, and functional guidelines.
• Help onboard new team members and provide mentorship and support within the team.
• Coordinate closely with the Functional Architect to ensure solutions fit seamlessly into the broader IT ecosystem.

Required Skills & Prior Experience

• Minimum of 6 years’ experience as a Business Analyst in financial services, with strong focus on Market Data administration.
• In-depth understanding of financial instruments and trading workflows across FX, Bonds, Equities, Rates, and Derivatives.
• Proficiency in working with data formats such as FpML and managing static market data from providers like Bloomberg and Refinitiv.
• Strong command of SQL and Excel; experience with data manipulation languages like Python or R is a plus.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills to engage effectively with stakeholders across both technical and business domains.
• High level of analytical thinking, problem-solving capabilities, and attention to detail.
• Experience working under tight deadlines and managing multiple priorities.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Willingness to participate in support activities, including L3 issue resolution.
• Commitment to continuous learning and openness to emerging technologies such as cloud solutions and AI-driven analytics.

Good to have Skills

• Experience collaborating with multicultural teams across different time zones.
• Familiarity with project management practices and tools (e.g., JIRA, MS Project).
• Exposure to back-office systems like Calypso or market risk platforms.
• Basic understanding of UML diagrams and software modeling.
• Prior experience with Git or other version control systems.
• Awareness of cloud-based solution design (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Working knowledge of object-oriented languages (e.g., Java, .Net).

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