Trade and Transaction Reporting - IT Business Analyst - Contract

Team & Role Description

Global Regulatory Tech team develops and supports applications required to ensure regulatory compliance. Regulatory obligations covered include Trade and Transaction reporting (MiFID II, EMIR, Dodd-Frank, HKMA, CSA, CAT)

Team is looking for a senior technical BA for on-going projects and initiatives while also participating in the broader enhancement of Jefferies’ trade and transaction reporting platforms.

This is a high‐visibility role requiring strong regulatory expertise, excellent stakeholder engagement, and a proven ability to plan and execute analysis activities in an evolving delivery landscape, proactively managing dependencies, risks and assumptions to drive successful outcomes.

Required Skillset

Extensive BA experience with sound technical understanding of database design and structure. Proven track record of:

• Capturing and analyzing business, functional and data requirements
• Performing current-state(as-is) analysis, gap assessments and defining target-state architectures working closely with dev team
• Strong understanding and experience of working with Regulatory reporting rules such as Dodd-Frank, MiFID II and EMIR
• Solid understanding of the trade lifecycle for major financial asset classes across Swaps and OTC derivatives
• Understanding of common market and reference data required for regulatory compliance
• Exposure to data governance and data quality frameworks in a regulatory context
• Authoring and presenting business cases and well-versed working with PPTs and Visio tools
• Comfortable presenting to and negotiating requirement details with users
• Transforming solutions into technical specifications
• Designing and executing functional, data and reconciliation test scenarios
• Designing and executing test cases

Desirable

• Domain knowledge
• Understanding of Swaps (Equity, Fixed Income, Exchange/OTC Traded Derivatives, FX, Interest Rate Derivatives) trading and dataflows
• Regulatory Reporting and Compliance: MiFID I/ II, Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), Dodd-Frank/ EMIR/HKMA/Canada
• Technical
• Strong hands on experience with SQL, XMLs, XSLTs, JSON, Fix messages
• Hands-on experience with regulatory reporting platforms e.g. AxiomSL
• Working experience on cloud technologies like Snowflake and AWS and BI tools such Sigma, Power BI etc.
• Working experience on test/project management tools such as Jira etc.

Soft Skills

• Good Interpersonal skills, written & verbal communication skills
• Ability to navigate and re-engineer complex manual processes
• Exposure of working with global and cross-cultural teams