Senior Business Analyst
Candidates must have strong knowledge of equity or derivatives products, market data feeds, trade lifecycle and post-trade processing and have financial services background. An understanding of the FIX financial messaging protocol a plus. Please refer to the job description for additional requirements.
Job Description
Our client is currently recruiting a dynamic Senior Business Analyst to join their Product Management team. The qualified individual will be responsible for acting as an interface between their Options business unit and the platform development and implementation areas. They will also be involved in creating and assembling detailed business requirement specifications for new products/applications.
Responsibilities to include:
-Participate in identifying user requirements by working on teams with a number of key individuals representing business and technology
-Document, communicate, and review requirements with product and project team members and sponsors
-Manage deadlines and work to meet feature requirements and customer expectations
-Assist in development of testing plans, scenarios and scripts and participate in user acceptance testing
-Assemble, complete, and distribute updates to key documents for developers, testers, change management and their customers
-Become a Subject Matter Expert on the core trading platform
-Required Experience
Experience/Skills Required:
-Must have previous experience writing business requirements and training materials for trading systems
-Must be familiar with formal requirements gathering and management process
Working knowledge of system design, architecture and application programming/analysis
-In-depth understanding of software development life cycle
-Strong knowledge of equity or derivatives products, market data feeds, trade lifecycle and post-trade processing
-Understanding of the FIX financial messaging protocol a plus
-Bachelor's degree in Finance, Engineering, Math, or Economics with a minimum
-Previous experience in equity or derivatives trading technology for an exchange or a brokerage/financial firm is preferable
Results Expected:
-Ability to learn details of managed applications quickly
-Able to handle dynamic trading environment and prioritization of projects/issues among a large client base
-Timely completion of requirements specifications
-Strong attention to detail
-Effective communication and coordination with development, test and implementation colleagues, which will include external organization
-Know and apply best practices in requirements management
Great benefits
Great Pay to $98K
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Friday, October 03, 2008