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We are looking for a senior Business Analyst in the Interest Rate Exotic Derivatives development team of our Fixed Income Trade Processing (FiTP) application, based in Belfast. FiTP is the primary deal capture, trade processing, inline PV & risk, and workflow processing for Vanilla and Exotic IR derivatives, as well as being the strategic capture system for several other asset classes. The team is responsible for supporting the business in the development of new (and enhancement of existing) derivative products. trade capture and processing. The team actively engages with the multiple trading desks involved, Middle Office and Operations, Financial Control, Market Risk management, Regulatory, Credit and close collaboration with the development and QA testing teams. This role encompasses the capture of requirements, specification, transition of associated jira through build and unit test, user acceptance testing and delivery to production of Exotic derivative products. These products exhibit a high degree of complexity, therefore familiarity with quantitative analytics, non-linear risk attributes, fpml modelling and derivative product workflows and post trade events is a pre-requisite for the role.
Job Responsibility
The BA will assist in defining new products and treatments, and generating functional and technical specification and test cases, managing the product through end-to-end delivery
Act as trusted partner to our business clients to represent their requirements for technology solutions in the Exotic derivatives domain
Define, document and generate actionable functional and technical requirements for our in-house development team
Guide and mentor other team members
Own and be accountable for cross-asset initiatives, influencing strategic technical direction and driving re-use of our data infrastructure
Build a strong partnership with our upstream and downstream business and technology partners
Grow and curate our catalogue of common assets, such as code templates, libraries, utilities, services, etc.
Troubleshoot performance and scalability issues, take ownership of issues and their technical remediation
Requirements
Proven experience working on enterprise level project as a BA or QA Analyst
Ability and proven experience of driving functionality/project from analysis to successful production
Proven experience as an owner of delivering successful project outcomes
Ability to communicate productively and efficiently with business (FO Traders, Business Managers etc.)
Ability to translate business requirements into functional requirements
Experience in writing detailed Functional/Technical specifications, use cases for development and QA teams
Experience with writing documentation for mapping different data formats between each other
Experience with XML: xpath, xsd (to be able to build xml schema, xpath etc), JSON
SQL knowledge to be able to query and analyze database data
Ability to create complex sql queries
Knowledge and proven experience with UML/BPMN or any other workflow/visualization notations as a business analyst
Experience with Investment banking - OTC derivatives: products knowledge, trade life-cycle knowledge, STP and experience in such projects (especially interest rate derivatives)
Nice to have
Knowledge of any object-oriented programming language (java, c#, Delphi etc.) to be able to read and understand code
Knowledge and experience with FpML for interest rate/commodities or equities derivatives
Knowledge of any other financial protocols/formats used to describe derivatives (SWmL, FIX, FIXml, SWIFT etc.)
Knowledge of investment bank structure and departments responsibility, operational processes (FO, MO, BO)
Experience with Mysis Summit, Murex, MarkitWire, OpenLink, ICELink
What we offer
Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays
increasing with tenure
A discretionary annual performance related bonus
Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
Employee Assistance Program
Pension Plan
Paid Parental Leave
Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
Access to an array of learning and development resources