Business Analyst - Capital Markets

Senior Business Analyst – Capital Markets

12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Location: London (Hybrid)

Salary: Competitive / Market Rate

ONLY CANDIDATES WITH RELEVANT EXPERIENCE WILL BE CONSIDERED.

** MUST HAVE Business Analyst Experience

** MUST HAVE Capital Markets Experience

This is a pure Business Analyst role with no Project Management experience required.

The Opportunity

We're partnering with a leading financial brokerage firm that is undertaking a significant business transformation programme. As part of this journey, we're looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst with a strong Capital Markets background to help drive strategic change across the organisation.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on high-profile transformation initiatives, partnering with senior stakeholders across the business and technology functions to deliver lasting operational and process improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with business stakeholders, technology teams and the PMO to gather, analyse and document business requirements across multiple transformation projects.
• Translate business needs into practical, scalable solutions that align with business objectives and best practice.
• Lead workshops and stakeholder meetings to define requirements and build consensus.
• Conduct gap analysis and map current ("As-Is") and future ("To-Be") business processes.
• Support the development of business cases for strategic initiatives.
• Assess the impact of process, system and organisational changes, identifying risks, dependencies and opportunities.
• Produce high-quality business analysis documentation, including requirements, process maps, user stories and functional specifications.
• Work closely with Project Managers to ensure a seamless transition from analysis through to delivery.
• Act as a trusted advisor, challenging existing processes and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.

About You

You'll be an experienced Business Analyst who enjoys solving complex business problems and influencing change within fast-paced Capital Markets environments.

Essential Experience

• Minimum 8 years' experience as a Business Analyst.
• Proven experience working within Capital Markets (essential).
• Experience gained within a brokerage, investment bank, trading firm or other front-office financial services organisation.
• Strong experience delivering business and technology change initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior leaders.
• Experience working across Agile, Waterfall and/or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and process improvement skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Understanding of cloud technologies including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

Desirable

• Experience designing operational and technology processes within Financial Services.
• Knowledge of trading platforms and trading technology.
• Experience using JIRA, Microsoft Project or similar project management tools.
• Degree educated or equivalent professional experience.

Why Apply?

• Join a business investing heavily in transformation and change.
• Work on high-impact projects with senior business stakeholders.
• Influence strategic initiatives and drive meaningful business improvements.
• Collaborative, fast-paced Capital Markets environment.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

If you're an experienced Business Analyst with a Capital Markets background looking for your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.