Business Analyst capital markets

• Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and currently has offices in Toronto, London, Hong Kong, New York, São Paulo, Luxembourg and Mumbai.
• Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance
• If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here's an opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Collect expectations and requirements of the customer
• Write user stories and acceptance criteria utilizing Behavioral Driven Development
• Manage best practice and ensuring these practices are used
• Understands the effects of technology used within the development, and the impact on the business client
• Produce quality deliverables and meet deadlines
• UI/UX designs reviewing
• Specifications (user stories) creation and reviewing
• Business requirements gathering through capturing of user stories, prototyping etc.
• Analysis of as-is business processes, identifying gaps and areas for improvement
• Design to-be business processes, perform impact & feasibility analysis of the requirements

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Domain & Techno-Functional Skills:
• Proven BA experience supporting trading platforms, with deep knowledge of OMS/EMS architecture, FIX protocol, market/client connectivity, and TCA/best execution analysis
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end trade lifecycle: order creation, execution events, clearing, settlement, corporate actions, rebalancing, market rehearsals, and connectivity testing/certification
• Strong command of front-office trading data domains, including data attributes, lineage, quality controls, inter-system dependencies, and interactions between trading, market, and reference data
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing trading workflows across cash equities, listed & OTC derivatives, and FX
• Experience with money market instruments (e.g., REPO, stock borrowing and lending) is a plus
• Deep understanding of synthetics and swap products (TRS, FX Swaps, IRS) and associated implementations, including inter-account booking and internal cross scenarios
• Ability to decompose complex trade structures into executable flows spanning order capture, routing, execution, fills, allocations, ticketing, financing, internalization, and risk/house bookings
• Behavioral & Interpersonal Skills:
• Excellent communication skills; ability to partner effectively with traders, operations, and business & technology stakeholders
• Strong documentation skills — able to translate high-level business requirements into well-structured BRDs and test plans covering scope, assumptions, exclusions, business rules, and edge scenarios
• Technical fluency in SQL and stored procedures; ability to read Python code is an advantage
• Highly organized with strong ability to manage priorities, track dependencies, and maintain clarity across deliverables
• Results-driven with a focus on timely execution and proactive resolution of blockers

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Certified scrum master certification is a plus