Senior Business Analyst – Fintech, Post Trade Platform

Role Overview

• Provide technical business analysis support for product and client led change projects targeting the PTP platform.
• Ensure that changes to product features are fully assessed to enable a suitable solution to be developed.
• Work closely with the product manager, development and QA teams throughout the software development life cycle to plan and agree solutions, ensuring that they are communicated effectively to relevant stakeholders.
• Identify and analyze the impact on the application from the introduction of new product features, and facilitate the breakdown of product requirements into technical work items.
• Liaise with other internal product and development teams to ensure that cross requirements are captured and documented as appropriate.
• Produce required change documentation (e.g. use cases, acceptance criteria, technical specification) outlining the product needs.
• Create, update and maintain product features specifications as required.
• Work with professional services and implementation teams as needed.
• Work closely with other FIS business units where required to provide support for product or client specific developments and regulatory or industry initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of training, education, and work experience
• 5+ years of experience in the financial services industry, as a developer, technical business analyst or product owner, preferably in custodians, back-office securities vendors or broker-dealer operations
• Strong knowledge of the securities industry flows in trading, clearing and settlement
• Working experience with different North American market infrastructures with a focus on back-office clearing and settlement functions. e.g. DTC, CDS, NSCC, FICC.
• Hands-on technical proficiency in Linux, SQL, REST API integrations, etc
• Ability to read and interpret interface specifications.
• Ability to interpret broad industry initiatives into detailed format requirements.
• Proven ability to research, analyze and generate scope and business requirements documents.
• Proven ability to analyze and breakdown product level requirements to technical work items.
• Strong competency in using a workflow tool (e.g. Jira, confluence, or whatever) and Strong presentation and product demonstration skills, and experience of procedure documentation
• Strong analytical and organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities whilst adhering to deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Responsible, dedicated, self-motivated and dependable.
• Added desirable experience: Familiarity with OCC (Options), FundServ (MutualFunds), CTM (Trade Matching)
• Knowledge of corporate action processing
• Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies.
• General understanding of user experience constructs
• Experience in interacting with upper management and senior leadership.

Tech Stack

• Linux
• SDLC
• SQL

Benefits

• FIS is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive compensation.