System Business Analyst

TL;DR

System Business Analyst (Fintech): Bridging the gap between business stakeholders and the technology team, ensuring requirements are understood and met to support business objectives, with an accent on fixed-income data products. Focus on data analysis, validating user stories and proactively raising obstacles that may impact sprint delivery.

Location: Remote. Candidates from Europe, Ukraine, and Asia must be able to cover at least 5-6 business hours within the EST timezone.

Company

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What you will do

• Analyze and define business and functional requirements to build fixed-income data products.
• Communicate effectively with the development team, QA, and stakeholders, and write requirements.
• Take ownership of product features to ensure the development team and QA understand business deliverables and acceptance criteria, review test cases/scenarios, and perform UAT as needed.
• Conduct data analysis, including diving into code (Stored Procs, Java) to understand and extrapolate business logic and document data flows based on data analysis
• Assist PO by providing input into backlog refinement and sprint planning, and help refine and validate user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Proactively raise obstacles and call out issues that may impact sprint delivery.

Requirements

• 6+ years of Business Analysis at a buy-side Fixed Income firm, Investment management or asset management
• Strong SQL skills for querying and analyzing data from relational databases
• Ability to read Python code
• Experience with various SDLC and application development and release control methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall
• Experience in various Fixed Income instruments is required
• Working knowledge of data governance and the ability to ensure high data quality is maintained throughout the data lifecycle of a project

Nice to have

• Experience working with Seismic
• Experience working with Vermillion
• Experience working with Arria Software
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Vacation as per the laws of your country.
• Health insurance for you and your loved ones.
• Sick pay: 10 days without a doctor's note, afterwards - as per the laws of your country.
• Time off for state holidays according to the official calendar.
• Pleasant environment with corporate parties and get-togethers for colleagues.
• Comfort service for solving technical and everyday problems at work.