Rates BA PM – Front Office Electronic Trading Fixed Income or Credit- Investment Bank

Description de la mission

Etrading Credit BA PM – Front Office Electronic Trading Fixed Income / Credit- Investment Bank
This is a business analyst and project manager role to work on the rates products electronic trading platform. This platform underpins the electronic rates activity including pricing, hedging and execution, people from a very strong Credit eTrading background would also be considered. .
Essential
Strong knowledge of the Credit or Rates Business is essential.
Significant and recent experience of eTrading
Top academic background in economics and/or engineering
At least one substantial prior experience (3y+) as a business analyst/project manager in a large organisation
Extensive understanding of electronic trading venues, APIs and associated dataflows: market, static and trade data.
Experience of working with the ION Trading platform nice to have.
Significant prior professional experience in support, business analysis, project and/or product management, either at a financial institution or a software house
Excellent communication skills in English, spoken and written (other languages advantageous)
Innovative mentality
Active interest in design of system architecture
Excellent problem solving skills
Any prior experience with Scripting, debugging or software development is a welcome plus.
Pragmatic approach to ensuring delivery on a timely basis. Get it done mentality.
The Business Analyst is responsible for managing the delivery of key functionalities of our electronic trading applications. The key responsibilities include:
Ability & experience of walking the trading floor with confidence
Writing actionable specs for their project, and ensuring all assigned developers have understood what needs to be done;
Assisting and coordinating application development and implementation among development teams;
Writing test plans and organising UAT phases;
Executing functional and non-regression testing of the end-to-end service, including automated and manual testing;
Documenting new functionalities and training users;
Closely interacting with business and other quantitative research and IT teams in developing new features in the electronic trading platform and also in assisting them in the investigation of issues (eg post-event analysis, performance and scalability, latency reduction)
Gathering continuous intelligence on the product’s performance, customers, problems and opportunities; and initiating functional improvements to meet changing customer needs;
Leading by example: ensuring that own behaviour as analyst exhibits the team’s values of dedication, commitment and transparency at all times and under all circumstances;
Stimulating and advocating Digital transformation throughout the entire Fixed Income organisation.
The role is 12 months ongoing and contractors typically stay in this are for an average of 5 years. This role offers hybrid working – 3 days / week in the office. It is inside IR35 paid via an Umbrella company
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