Delivery of comprehensive business analysis to provide solutions for business needs, with a focus on interest rate (Rates) products.
Act as the functional bridge between the Front Office Sales (Rates) desk and IT delivery teams, translating business needs into functional solutions.
Work with the project team including product owner, senior developers, architects, and BAs to deliver business requirements and improve business processes and systems.
Work closely with stakeholders to define requirements and various artifacts around application development or enhancement.
Specification of business rules for regulatory reporting, business operations and transformations.
Functional design and testing of solutions.
Maintenance and promotion of best practices around the data dictionary of the bank.
Interaction with developers to define implementation specs.
Interaction with other IT teams to explain and communicate on Data services.
Assisting with the daily operations through scrum, Jira and Kanban techniques.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
Minimum 8 years of experience as a Capital Markets Business Analyst.
Strong functional knowledge of Fixed Income products, specifically interest rate (Rates) products.
Proven experience supporting Front Office Sales desks, including Sales/Trader workflow and pricing processes.
Strong communication to bring consensus on requirements.
Strong functional knowledge of financial products & regulatory reporting.
Knowledge of MIFID2/SFTR/EMIR / any APAC transaction regulatory reporting principles is desirable.
Experience of capital market processes, e.g. Pricing, Sales/Trader workflow, etc.
Exposure to microservices-based architecture, Kibana, Collibra is a plus.
Strong problem solving skills with ability to think out of the box.
Excellent communications and proven documentation capabilities.
Skilled in data analysis using database queries (SQL/Oracle/Sybase), TSQL.
A knowledge of FPML & XML/XSLT/XPath would be an added advantage