Description

• Senior/Lead Business Analyst with strong financial markets experience
• Must be comfortable working directly with large datasets
• Strong understanding of:
  • Equities
  • Options
  • Financial market data
  • Market structure and trading activity
• Able to gather requirements from business users and translate them into actionable solutions
• Hands-on analyst who can explore data independently and identify patterns, gaps, and opportunities
• Experience building prototypes and proof-of-concepts before engineering implementation
• Comfortable working in an iterative environment ("fail fast" mentality)
• Partner closely with software engineers to validate, test, and productionize solutions
• Support and lead UAT efforts

Target Backgrounds

• Trading firms
• Investment banks
• Broker-dealers
• Exchanges
• Market surveillance organizations
• Capital markets technology firms
• Regulatory technology (RegTech) organizations

Required Skills

• Strong SQL (must-have)
• Advanced data analysis skills
• Ability to reconcile and match datasets to validate expected outcomes
• Requirements gathering and business analysis experience
• UAT experience
• Strong stakeholder communication skills
• Ability to work between business and engineering teams

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Data science experience
• Experience building prototypes and analytical models
• Market surveillance experience
• Regulatory technology experience
• Knowledge of SEC/FINRA regulations
• Python or other data analysis/programming experience

Key Responsibilities

• Gather and refine business requirements
• Analyze financial market data
• Explore datasets and identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities
• Build prototypes to validate concepts
• Collaborate with engineering teams to develop solutions
• Perform data validation and output verification
• Lead/support UAT
• Ensure solutions meet business expectations before production release

Red Flags

• Generic Business Analyst with no financial markets experience
• Heavy documentation/requirements focus but limited hands-on data analysis
• No experience with equities, options, or market data
• Weak SQL skills
• No experience working directly with engineering teams
• Limited ability to independently investigate data and validate

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree