Derivatives Business Analyst

##### Project description

Our client is a leading commodity trading and logistics company. They are committed to building and maintaining world-class IT applications and infrastructure. The Trading IT group directly supports the trading business, and this business has started a far-reaching programme to enhance and improve its trading applications using an innovative architecture to support business growth across the full range of business lines and geographies, and to enable the sharing of systems across different businesses. This programme is aimed at delivering functional capabilities, enhancements, and technical infrastructure upgrades to enable continued business growth and enhanced profitability for the firm. Client is looking to replace existing reconciliation system Gresham with Exceptor which will be enterprise-wide recon platform across FO, MO and BO

##### Responsibilities

• Perform due diligence of existing recon platform and identify the gaps which needs to be addressed by new recon platform.
• Capture detailed requirement in JIRA, along with success criteria, and are signed off.
• Work closely with implementation team during the implementation of new platform
• Create test pack and perform functional testing
• Work closely with users to identify and resolve UAT issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that the most critical and high-impact tasks are addressed in each sprint cycle.
• Working Relationships with:
• Project stakeholders and key users across various IT and business departments
• External/Internal application support vendors
• Testing and training teams

##### Skills

Must have

• Knowledge & Experience:
• Overall 4 to 6+ years of experience out of which at least 2 years in OTC derivatives space
• Must have minimum 3 years of experience in Business Analyst role.
• Must have the extensive knowledge of derivatives
• Must have general Business Analyst skills, like capturing business requirements, creating functional specs, JIRA stories, preparing test scenarios and who has worked in reconciliation space
• Must have the extensive knowledge of otc derivatives
• Must have general Business Analyst skills, like capturing business requirements, creating functional specs, JIRA stories, preparing test scenarios
• Prior experience in reconciliation space
• Good understanding of derivatives trade lifecycle starting from trading till settlement.
• Good understanding of ETD and OTC derivatives instruments like future, forward, FX Forward, Interest Rates Derivatives IRS, Cap, Floor, FX Derivatives etc
• Awareness to different types of fees & commissions charged on derivatives trading, clearing and settlement.
• Good documentation skill so that he / she can prepare functional specification doc using data flow diagram
• Attributes:
• Independent delivery and ownership-focused
• End-to-end process mindset
• Able to self-manage, collaborate, and regularly prioritize and manage activities across multiple workstreams
• Good communicator, engaging, and able to work with offshore teams across various time zones
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to make data-driven decisions & thrive in a fast-paced environment

Nice to have

• Na

##### Other

• Languages

English: C2 Proficient

• Seniority

Regular