Front Office Investment Risk Senior Business Analyst. Asset Management. 6 month rolling contract. £800-900/ Day Inside IR35 PAYE. Hybrid 3 days a week in Central London office.

Front Office Investment Risk Senior Business Analyst. Asset Management. 6 month rolling contract. £800-900/ Day Inside IR35 PAYE. Hybrid 3 days a week in Central London office.

Business Analyst – Front Office Investment Risk Technology

My client is a top tier Investment Management house based in Central London.

About the Team

The Front Office Investment Risk Team is building a suite of next generation cloud-native applications while also supporting existing processes and platforms. They are a dedicated, high performing Agile team on a mission to develop the capabilities used by Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, Investment Leadership and Quants.

Product discovery, user understanding and outcome clarity are an explicit part of their delivery, and central to our continuously evolving our product operating model. The work spans across strategic initiatives and BAU support, from designing new capabilities to troubleshooting data discrepancies in production.

They move fast, challenge each other constructively and care deeply about delivering real value to their business partners who use their tools every day.

The Role

My client are are looking for a hands-on, product-centric Business Analyst to support their strategic goals and tactical needs. This is not a passive requirement gathering role; you will be embedded in delivery, shaping product direction, leading conversations with stakeholders and get to develop a deep understanding of their data models and production systems.

The role lets you engage with both business stakeholders and engineers to shape clear user journeys and requirements by leading user discovery of workflows and requirements, ensuring there is a clear definition of product features before engineering begins.

You will be a part of every stage in the Product Delivery Lifecycle:

• Business analysis and requirements definition
• Agile Product ownership and backlog management
• Project leadership and coordination (Scrum)
• Production support and release coordination
• End user education and support

You will have exposure to sophisticated front office risk analytics, complex business logic, diverse data sources and meaningful technical challenges.

My client is looking for a person who can influence decisions collaboratively and work effectively across diverse viewpoints and shared ownership models.

Core Skills

• Communication - Outstanding written and verbal communication. You will liaise with technology, management and investment business stakeholders daily and be able to tailor your message to each audience.
• Critical thinking - Excellent problem-solving with the ability to apply fact-based decision-making to resolve complex problems using logic, analysis, experience and business knowledge.
• Data skills - Solid data analysis capability including SQL, Excel and Python. Comfortable working in Jira for backlog and delivery management and Confluence for documentation, inceptions and knowledge sharing.
• Agile delivery - Understanding of the Agile lifecycle and experience working across the full delivery process, from discovery through to release and feedback.
• Product mindset - Strong product mindset including product discovery, backlog refinement, prioritization and shaping solutions around business value and user needs.
• Stakeholder management - Ability to manage competing stakeholder demands, build trust across seniority levels and navigate disagreements diplomatically while keeping delivery on track.
• Value articulation - Ability to connect technical delivery to business outcomes, clearly framing the value, impact and trade-offs behind prioritization decisions.

Planning and organization

• Ability to translate evolving business needs into clear features, epics and user stories while maintaining accurate backlogs and supporting documentation.
• Ability to balance the bigger picture and long-term goals with the definition of done and exit criteria for user stories in delivery.
• Experience writing and continually updating inceptions documents, taking projects from zero to delivery.
• Ability to adapt to new requirements provided by Risk Analysts, Portfolio Managers and other stakeholders as priorities shift.
• Ensure requirements are translated into well-scoped engineering tickets with clear acceptance criteria, dependencies, Definition of Ready and validate outcomes after delivery.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders and Agile engineering teams to understand and develop complex business requirements, acting as ongoing SME within the team.
• Ensure work is distributed appropriately between development and support teams so features are delivered seamlessly.
• Document and socialize current state and help create and present a compelling vision of target state.
• Lead product discovery sessions with various end users, contribute to the product roadmap and help prioritize features based on business value and user impact.
• Shape and refine Business Increments (BIs) and Minimum Business Increments (MBIs) for planning and governance, framing delivery at the right level for leadership.
• Respond directly to end user queries and challenges, provide education/training on current capabilities, identify discrepancies in data and user expectations and propose solutions. This requires hands-on work to dig into the data and processes including SQL, API calls, configurations and effective communication across multiple teams.
• Own release coordination for your workstreams including go/no-go, release notes, post-release validation and user communication.
• Promote and support the product by keeping users informed of new features and engaged with developments including newsletters and demos.
• Support engineering with design decisions using empirical data analysis and compiled user feedback.
• Escalate and coordinate risks, issues and dependencies in a timely manner.

Ideal Candidate

• Established Business Analyst with experience within the Investment Risk or a related front office domain, working across business analysis, product support, delivery or related roles. If you come from an adjacent domain (especially attribution, portfolio construction, performance) but learn fast and are genuinely curious about risk, we would still like to hear from you.
• Strong understanding of (or eagerness to develop expertise in) front office concepts such as modern portfolio theory, liquidity, derivatives, VaR, stress testing, exposures, sensitivities and portfolio analytics
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities, evolving requirements and multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Self-starting and proactive, able to pick up ambiguous problems and investigate issues across data, systems and workflows.
• Eager to explore and adopt emerging technologies (AI tooling, automation, modern data tools) to improve workflows and delivery speed.
• Collaborative, influential and pragmatic with the confidence to challenge constructively while respecting team input.

If you are interested to learn more, please send a CV for immediate consideration.