Agile BA Fixed Income

In this role, will be responsible to lead various Fixed Income Commodity Projects required to support business growth. Focus will be to migrate to strategic system from legacy system, support industry mandates, and a variety of business enabled Front to Back Projects.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the project manager and business analyst and be accountable for overseeing multiple projects through multiple phases with ultimate responsibility for successful delivery of the assigned project on-time and in budget.
• Take responsibility for the definition and realization of project business case including cost and risk reduction opportunities and conceive innovative strategic solutions through software delivery, re-engineering opportunities or other business transformation activity, through connection with external bodies and industry forums and appropriate.
• Effectively collaborate multiple regional stakeholders including Sales and Trading, Legal and compliance, Risk Management, Technology, Finance and Operations line teams for delivering a front to back lifecycle changes.
• Report accurate progress, risks, and issues; ensure benefits and tracked and realized; and manage and maintain vendor relationship in order to deliver on projects.
• Design and Deliver Operating Model Concepts; develop strong partnerships with IT colleagues to design, develop and implement technology solutions.
• Understand the detail of industry and Regulatory change driving projects, participate in industry forums.
• Recognizing Business Needs: Identifying and understanding the business requirements within the fixed income commodity domain.
• Collaboration with Development Teams: Working closely with development teams to document processes involved in software development.
• Applying Business Analysis Practices: Dedicating significant time (up to 83%) to applying business analysis practices across various projects and programs.
• Providing Solutions for Business Development: Offering solutions that drive business growth by leveraging analytical insights.

Skills required:

• To excel as an Agile Business Analyst in this domain, candidates must possess a blend of technical competence and business-industry domain knowledge. Key skills include:

• Data Analysis: Proficiency in analyzing complex data sets to derive actionable insights.

• Software Skills: Expertise in tools such as Microsoft Excel and Tableau.
• Documentation: Ability to document processes involved in the software development life cycle effectively.
• Strong communication skills particularly in written documentation (user stories, operating procedures, process flow mapping etc.)
• Experience in managing relationships with senior clients.
• Strong attention to requirements gathering, discussion and delivery.
• Prior process improvement, business analysis, and project management experience
• Clear understanding of business analysis approaches and concepts
• Experience in defining business requirements.
• E Serve as the project manager and business analyst and be accountable for overseeing multiple projects through multiple phases with ultimate responsibility for successful delivery of the assigned project on-time and in budget.
• Take responsibility for the definition and realization of project business case including cost and risk reduction opportunities and conceive innovative strategic solutions through software delivery, re-engineering opportunities or other business transformation activity, through connection with external bodies and industry forums and appropriate.
• Effectively collaborate multiple regional stakeholders including Sales and Trading, Legal and compliance, Risk Management, Technology, Finance and Operations line teams for delivering a front to back lifecycle changes.
• Report accurate progress, risks, and issues; ensure benefits and tracked and realized; and manage and maintain vendor relationship in order to deliver on projects.
• Design and Deliver Operating Model Concepts; develop strong partnerships with IT colleagues to design, develop and implement technology solutions.
• Understand the detail of industry and Regulatory change driving projects, participate in industry forums.
• Experience in managing and executing testing activities, production checkout.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and define approaches to bring un-focused issues to resolution.
• Strong Agile experience, JIRA, Confluence, User Story, Acceptance Criteria, Visio and Signavio process tools, UI Framework experience