Business Analyst

We are looking for a Business Analyst ( Post Trade / Middle Office) for one of our banking clients, and the role scope is as below:

Role

• Proven delivery across multiple regions (EMEA, Americas, APAC) with the ability to reconcile differing regional operating practices into a single target design.
• Able to work directly with Middle Office / Operations stakeholders to define target state and quantify benefit (STP uplift, manual effort reduction, reduced support intervention).
• Track record of enabling others — demoing tooling, documenting methodology and training BAs, QA and Support teams.

Preferred

• Experience shifting a validation model from inclusion-based rules to default-STP-with-exclusions, or a comparable scope-inversion redesign.
• Familiarity with regulatory or internal control frameworks governing margin thresholds and trade scoping.
• Experience with revenue recognition timing issues (anniversary/rollover dates, accrual triggers) and remediation of historic populations.

Technical Skill set

• 8+ years as a Business Analyst in post-trade, middle office or trade lifecycle technology at a bank, broker-dealer or market infrastructure provider.
• Hands-on experience with trade matching and confirmation platforms - DTCC CTM, OSTTRA (Harmony/MarkitWire) or equivalent — including STP rates, exception handling and break investigation.
• Strong SQL / T-SQL: able to write independent validation queries, reconcile expected vs. actual outcomes across large trade populations (thousands of records), and build reusable diagnostic and test-data scripts.
• Advanced Excel for formula modelling, mockups and calculation validation.
• Working knowledge of at least two of: Fixed Income, Repo and Securities Borrowing/Lending, FX, or cleared derivatives, with understanding of the post-execution lifecycle (allocation, matching, affirmation, clearing submission, settlement).
• Demonstrated ownership of an end-to-end change from problem definition through functional specification, SIT/UAT and production release.
• Experience redesigning rule-based or hardcoded processing logic into configurable, business-maintainable frameworks (e.g. category/product hierarchies, scheduler-driven jobs), including migration and regression risk assessment.
• Experience writing functional specifications for system-to-system API contracts: request/response definitions, workflow diagrams, status handling, authorization controls and audit requirements.
• Exposure to margin, collateral or fee/revenue calculation logic — for example threshold-based margin controls, gross margin, XVA or revenue-share and rebate computations — with the ability to validate formula logic independently of the development team.