Front Office Senior Business Analyst

Job Description

A Senior Front Office Business Analyst is required to work on one of our Investment Bank clientsstreams of the RSF Program. The role will involve working with business stakeholders and technology partners to capture, define and document the detailed businessrequirements (functional and non-functional), manage testing & delivery of the target solution.The ideal Business Analyst will have :Previous Experience in Business Analysis for Front Office users. Proven track record as critical part in delivering large business change in a Capital Markets context, Rates and Rates derivatives domain experience required.In-depth knowledge of fixed income SFT products and associated pre & post trade transactional workflows, in particular Gentan, Gensaki repos, bilateral and triparty SFT products including domestic market and Japanese trade types and associated calculations.Familiar with JSDA, GMRA, GMSLA formats. Prior experience of / skills on iStar (NRI).Proven knowledge of Apex system and experience in implementing this solution in financial institutions.Experienced at gathering detailed business requirements (functional and non functional)Ability to work across all business, IT / operational / infrastructure functions and regions in the context of delivering coherent business capabilities that align with the business use cases throughout the systems.Experienced Business and Systems analyst with product and process knowledge across front office specifically pricing, FO risk management, trading/ e-trading, risk valuations, operations, reconciliations and settlement in rates (cash & derivatives).Experienced in dealing with global senior stakeholders in the business, Risk, Operations, Finance & IT.Experience defining comprehensive business test cases.Understanding of SDLC, systems architecture, systems design & technical infrastructure (software, messaging technologies, databases, servers). Elicit requirements (functional and technical) at detailed level, assist in fine tuning scope definitions, work closely with FO stakeholders for analysis and conducting interviews, document these requirements thoroughly including the use-cases, processflows, data flows, as well as devise comprehensive test cases to ensure the traceability and quality of deliverables. Work with the project team members, desk heads and traders to capture detailed requirements and help define business architecture, processes within the overall solution as per the Program Governance.Raise any alert to the RSF Program Direction and SponsorsEnsure that SLAs are defined and usability, functional and non-functional requirements are captured (e.g. validation rules, SOD / Intraday / EOD performance, computation times, performance in peak market conditions, inter-operability etc).Work with partners in Market Risk, Credit Risk, Operations, GIT, Finance, Permanent Control, Legal and Compliance to ensure that all their requirements including those of middle office and back office are taken into consideration in relation to GMD FO requirements.Participate in the analysis of options available to GMD, (processes, organisation or IS evolution) and validate the IT and Process recommendations made for front to back functions.Coordinate the UAT and raise any defects diligently and advise of issues and delivery risks in advance. Manage the issues raised from the test execution along with IT and QA teamsPlease apply with your CV to: