Business Analyst NY

DARWIN - Electronic Trading Junior Business Analyst (NY)
Duration: 6 Months
Location: New York, NY (onsite, could consider some flexibility (hybrid) 1/2 days a week)

JOB DESCRIPTION
ELECTRONIC TRADING JUNIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

• Client is running a greenfield project to enhance its electronic trading offering within SCIB Fixed Income.
• Working closely with the fixed income trading business both in London and Spain, the team are delivering on the 3-year strategy to build out a new eTrading system to replace an existing vendor system.
• The project is sponsored at high levels within the business.

• As a Junior Business Analyst, you will be collaborating to ensure the team deliver a high-quality solution that meets the needs of the business both in terms of required functionality but also from a technical workflow perspective.
• Using industry best practices for documenting and communicating the requirements to both the technical team implementation as well as to the non-technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of the agile process and how to structure requirements to facilitate this is key to the project's success.
• As is working closely with the various stakeholders to break the larger stories down into smaller stories to allow the sprint management.
• We are looking for candidates with knowledge of the Fixed Income electronic trading businesses and experience within front-office development teams.

• Work closely with business sponsors to elicit requirements to deliver the project milestones.
• Document these requirements in Jira and structure them into epics, user stories and tasks.
• Explain requirements to the development team and work closely with them to deliver the features.
• Perform UAT testing of newly developed features
• Work closely with partner technology teams and collaborate effectively.
• Potential to line manage developers, dev Ops and QA resources and to co-ordinate hiring and on-boarding of new team members.

• Deep product knowledge of rates or credit products. Ideally both.
• Detailed knowledge of the D2C and D2C eTrading workflows in the market for Fixed Income
• Experience as a hands-on business analyst within a front-office development team for an investment bank.

• Experience working in an agile development team.
• Experience of managing IT projects.

• Energetic, motivated and determined
• Pragmatic and results-oriented
• Adaptable to diverse set of responsibilities
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Productive and able to manage time effectively
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science / information technology or a related field, or substantial practical experience of software delivery at an advanced level.