Business Analyst; FX&CFDs markets, Prop Trading

Role Overview

As a generalist Business Analyst for trading systems, you will turn FX/CFD trading and dealing needs into precise, testable requirements and operating workflows. You’ll partner daily with Product managers, Engineering, Support and Legal teams to take initiatives from discovery through delivery.

• Run discovery with stakeholders; write business and functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process maps for trading platform and liquidity solutions: liquidity and order routing, order life cycles, monitoring dashboards, settings UIs.
• Maintain a requirements backlog and traceability from epics / stories / test cases, support UAT and sign‑off.
• Design KPIs and metrics for various features: trading fraud detection, execution quality, compliance, etc. Design specific throughput metrics based on system architecture.
• Design optimal structure of system settings, considering hierarchies, profiling, scheduling, automation.
• Clarify edge cases; perform gap analysis between current and target capabilities; validate frontend deliverables against requirements.
• Create UI/UX requirements using wireframes and interaction flows.
• Participate in End-to-End testing and train Support team.

• 3+ years general experience with Trading Technologies: cTrader, Prime
  
  XM, oneZero, MT4/MT5 platforms, FIX 4.4/5.0 protocol.
• 3+ years as a Business Analyst in software (fintech/trading), with a track record of crisp specs and successful delivery.
• FX/CFD Trading: pricing models (TOB, Market depth, etc.), order lifecycle, leverage mechanics, liquidity bridge features, mark‑out report, fraud and toxic flow detection, client flow segmentation.
• Trading reporting: internal, dealing, backoffice, regulatory reports, auditability, reconciliation principles and methods.
• Experience in using AI tools to accelerate analysis and documentation.
• Good skills in MS Excel (Pivot tables, Power Pivot).
• Regulatory Awareness: ESMA, CySEC, FCA rules, GDPR regulation.
• Soft Skills:
  
  Clear communicator, ability to structure and document your findings, project management discipline.

• BSc/MSc in Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial, Finance, Physics, Business Management, and/or Computer Science.
• Great analytical skills, logical analysis, and conceptual thinking.
• Exposure to statistical techniques used in surveillance (hypothesis testing, anomaly detection, basic Bayesian reasoning).
• Experience with Figma for UI design.
• Prop