Front Office Business Analyst

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.

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:

• Supporting the business to gather formal Business Requirements.
• Supporting the business to review and provide input into As-is and To-Be workflows for trade booking and lifecycle.
• Detailed product analysis for FX and MMT products and support driving the solutions.
• Mapping producs into templates and carrying out detailed analysis to map pricing models.
• Providing estimates for the Front Office delivery to feed into the project approval process.
• Ability to deal with trade booking queries
• Completing project/work-stream status reports.
• General ad-hoc support for any new requirements or issues related to project.
• Supporting our Front Office as being the primary contact for tasks and issues.

• 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

• Regulatory Knowledge/Experience

• English: A1 Beginner

• Regular