Overview
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 6 Month(s)
Skills
business analyst
project manager
FX
trade lifecycle
documentation
capital markets
risk analysis
fixed income
Job Details
- Front Office Project Manager / Business Analyst to focus on building out our Front to Back Trade Support across all FX products
Role Objectives
- Business Analysis for strategic projects and enhancements across vanilla and exotic FX Desks
- Facilitate daily/weekly Developer scrums, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Support agile activities, including user story creation, acceptance criteria definition, product backlog grooming, and identifying key dependencies and risks
- Lead new projects from inception through go live, managing the project lifecycle across authoring Project Initiation Documents/Business Requirements Documents, Status Reports, leading Front to Back UAT across Users/Developers
- Coordinate with Department stakeholders to track milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
- Collaborate with Agile Delivery Leads on the creation of the solution roadmap and providing timely status of deliverables related to roadmap execution.
- Document QA test plans and execute test cases. Liaise with business users to create test plans, manage testing, and track defects, enhancements, and questions.
- Write user documentation and conduct training sessions on new functionality as needed.
- Assist with production implementation & coordinate user validation across impacted Control Functions
- Participate in general BA work including production support and BAU enhancements of in-house business applications.
Qualifications / Skills
- Strong work ethic with focus on meeting deadlines, objectives, and ability to learn new products and systems in a timely manner
- 8+ years of experience in bank capital markets as a Project Manager / Business Analyst with experience relating to Front, Middle Office and/or Back Office system implementations or equivalent operational experience.
- Strong OTC Products experience across FX Products, Risk Analysis, Market Operations.
- Prior Business Analyst experience in Capital Markets or Fixed Income Products, ability to demonstrate projects successfully launched and benefits
- Front to Back Trade support experience across booking new trades, trade affirmation, clearing, lifecycle events (Allocations, Novation, Terminations, Restructurings)
- Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively and confidently with users, team members.
- Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
- Strong skills working with MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, MS Power Point & SharePoint.
- Bachelor's degree. Finance, Computer Science or Information Systems preferred.