Solutions Business Analyst

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tick data management • analytics • event stream processing • Strategy Backtesting • Enterprise Data Warehousing

201 - 500 employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

Description

• Consult with new and existing customers to understand their surveillance requirements in the context of their business workflow • Perform sophisticated analysis covering interpretive thinking to define problems, propose innovative solutions within product/resource/time constraints and influence strategic functional decisions • In-depth review of the Business Requirement Documents (BRD) provided by customers to seek clarifications by asking probing questions/examples • Produce clear and concise functional/technical requirement specifications (FRS) for the engineering team based on these BRDs • Walkthrough of these FRS to all stakeholders - customer-facing and in-house engineering teams • Perform hands-on analysis of the customer data schema to find any gaps and/or enhancement opportunities • Keep an open mind to leverage any newly surfaced generic information in the data to enhance the product’s data/schema template • Analyze huge data sets, create flow/UML diagrams, prepare high-level summaries and ETL workflow (to meet surveillance data specifications) • Partner with product managers/owners to perform industry/competitor research, product documentation, content write-up for marketing, client demos, and more • Liaise with project managers to provide efforts/timelines inputs on implementation complexity gathered through quantitative (such as data sources, volume, asset classes, etc.) and qualitative (engagement model with customers, unclear/changing requirements, etc.) • Perform QA function on new surveillance implementations to ensure we have low false positives (good quality alerts) and work with customers for preliminary reviews of the same • Candidate must be willing to take on and pass advanced courses/certifications to build up any gap in understanding of financial products/markets - e.g. (not limited to) online certifications, CFA, FRM, CSMA, etc. • Candidate must be ok with on-site visits to Client locations if necessary

Requirements

• 4-7 years experience as a Business Analyst or in a role closely working with the business in a financial services/technology industry • In-depth knowledge of the trading workflow and/or market microstructure of at least one of the following asset classes: Equities, Fixed Income, FX/MM, Derivatives • Demonstrable knowledge of the compliance/surveillance functions and/or hands-on experience with Trade Surveillance vendor platforms such as SMARTS, Actimize, etc. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Comfortable working with large time-series datasets (million records per day) • Hands-on knowledge of Python (data exploration and code interpretation), SQL is required • Knowledge of Cloud technologies is a plus • A working knowledge of using JIRA and Confluence • Must be a self-starter comfortable working individually and as a part of the team • Able to prioritize conflicting tasks, identifying what is essential and focusing on such • Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience in a quantitative field

Benefits

• Fully remote working opportunity • Work in a mid-size company with supportive colleagues and a cozy atmosphere • You will feel valued and can create impact without unnecessary bureaucracy. • Challenging tasks for financial market players: national regulators, central banks, and quantitative hedge funds.