Business Analyst

Job Overview

CMC Markets are hiring a Senior Business Analyst on a 12‑month FTC contract to join the team. As the Senior Business Analyst you will have strong business analysis and technical experience. The role requires liaising with business and technical teams to develop requirements for strategic programmes of work. There is a strong emphasis on product and trading changes, and you will be required to provide detailed analysis and documentation of requirements, resulting in a pipeline of new user stories for development teams.

Once features are in development, you will help manage the development life cycle, monitoring progress of the development team, tracking story status, maintaining project/iteration plans, and providing clear visibility on project status, including reporting and communicating outside of the team.

As new features are completed by the developers, you will carry out testing to ensure the output satisfactorily meets the original requirements before being handed over to business teams. In this role you will occasionally assist the support and customer‑facing teams to investigate and resolve live issues.

• Financial background is essential.
• Lifecycle knowledge of financial products such as equities, futures, forex, fixed income, crypto is highly advantageous.
• Familiarity with spread betting and/or CFD trading is desirable.
• Experience of end‑to‑end trading workflows, including execution and settlement, is highly desirable.
• Minimum of 3 years commercial experience as a Business Analyst embedded in a technology team.
• Proven experience applying Agile software development methodologies is highly desirable.
• General exposure to working on finance trading platforms is a distinct advantage.
• Good working knowledge of Confluence, Jira, and Miro is desirable.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to work effectively with minimal supervision, taking ownership of tasks large and small.

CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.