Business Analyst

**WE ARE**:
At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world's leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for a Business Analyst to join our team and work on the onboarding process of new customer in a big retail bank.

**YOU ARE**:

- A strategic thinker with great communication skills in both English and French
- A great relationship builder with your team and clients
- A problem-solver and team player

**YOU HAVE**:

- Front office stakeholder relationship management experience;
- Experience delivering in an agile environment;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Some experience with QA/Business Acceptance Testing;
- Some experience working with UX designers;
- Some knowledge of client onboarding, client tiering, KYC

**YOU WILL** MANAGE THE PROJECT BACKLOG**:

- Help stakeholders in making their vision for the product materialize, especially in the early stages of each delivery phase
- Convey that vision to the team and define clear milestones for alignment purposes, and so they can make holistic design decisions that will support the delivery
- Create & maintain a backlog of deliverable stories for the team
- Be the stakeholders' proxy in the team, able to make quick, firm decisions when it comes to scope, requirements and prioritization/triage
- Involve team members when their perspective can bring value, including times when it can support scope and priority decisions
- Follow up during the implementation and testing phases to ensure delivery satisfies the requirements
- Drive the backlog review and estimation process and take part in planning activities
- Capture non-functional requirements and keep supportability in mind
- Define acceptance criteria and tests up front as part of a Business-Driven Development approach
- Use your personal experience with Agile delivery to take advantage of its strengths and mitigate its potential risks.
- Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team (including but not limited to: real-time programming, high availability, TDD, BDD, UX design, DevOps concerns )
- Work with distributed teams

**WHY US**:

- To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive ) You can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it
- To take part in the growth and development of a great company
- Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.
- Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
- Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits ). The balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us.
- We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes.

**WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US**

You can check our _Glassdoor_ page

**BENEFITS (What we offer in return // what you'll get )**

We create benefits with YOU in mind.
- A competitive salary
- 23 days of vacations
- 50% of the cost for group insurance which includes health, dental, life insurance and short or long-term disabilities
- up to 5% of your annual salary as a pension plan contribution, if you contribute the same
- 50% of your public transportation monthly pass
- 50% of a gym membership

**THE PROCESS**

Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us

We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here you will have three stage interviews:
1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.
2- A zoom chat with one of BA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience
3- A Face to Face interview (via Zoom).

**But don't worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter.**
- Here is a little tip for you during those stages:_

Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc

**DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION**:
Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it's more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their w