Business Analyst / Product Manager – Fixed Income & Equities

Business Analyst / Product Manager – Fixed Income & Equities

An exciting and varied role within an established and growing organisation predominantly working as a Business Analyst / Product Manager with some Project Management.

An ideal candidate may come from a number of areas including:

• Ex-Trader / Broker with some knowledge of IT.
• Account Managers or Functional Support role at an ISV / Trading Software vendor.
• Trader Support / Settlements background.
• IT Support with an interest in the markets / excellent business knowledge.

The role will cover a number of the company’s different business divisions with the successful candidate will having the opportunity to work on a breadth of different projects. The primary responsibility will be full project lifecycle from the initial Business Analysis to scoping project requirements and managing the project delivery, adapting to any changes in scope in the process and solving problems.

Candidates must have excellent knowledge of predominantly Fixed Income and Equities E-Trading / Exchange Connectivity with any Futures & Options / FX beneficial and must have a strong Technical Understanding.

About The Role:

• Functional requirement gathering with internal and external stakeholders and working closely with development teams to translate requirements into deliverable solutions.
• Constantly reviewing Trading Systems and client needs to see where functionality can be improved
• Project management – drive the delivery of product initiatives. Defining project timelines and identifying dependencies and risks to delivery. Translate business requirements into clear technical requirements
• Client Onboarding – develop and provide comprehensive training materials (in English) for internal teams and clients, ensuring a clear understanding of product features and functionalities.
• Proactively managing multiple projects of varying scope and size in parallel
• Solving problems with innovative solutions with the confidence to challenge stakeholders to determine the most appropriate solution.
• Risk assessment – Appropriately assess risks and identify any required actions required to mitigate risks.
• Using tools such as MS Project to manage forecast

Essential Skills:

• Demonstratable experience as a Business Analyst / Product Manager delivering trading solutions within a Fixed Income / Equities trading environment
• Experience working with engineering teams in line with Agile/scrum Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology, translating business requirements into stories and epics.
• Broad knowledge of IT including Windows / Linux and general networking
• Good understanding of networking (TCP and UDP) and multicast data delivery
• Good understanding of distributed server architectures running on Linux

Highly Desirable Skills

• Understanding of ultra-low latency distributed computing environments.
• Familiarity with FIX trading protocol and market data systems.
• Previous experience with Fixed Income, Equities, Futures & Options Trading, Risk and Settlement Systems.
• Familiarity with cloud technology – AWS and or Azure
• Reasonable knowledge of Databases - SQL Server / Oracle - including performance issues
• Knowledge of any of the ISV’s products - Trading Technologies, Stellar, ULLink, WebICE, Object Trading, Fidessa, ION / Patsystems, Trayport.
• Exchange Connectivity – ICE / LIFFE, Eurex, CME / CBOT, Euronext, Xetra, Chi-X, LME, LSE, NYSE.
• FIX Connectivity – Client On-boarding, Support / Troubleshooting of FIX Logs / Connections.
• Other Market Data – Reuters, Bloomberg, CQG, Ateo (Teo and Lisa).
• Good understanding of full trade lifecycle
• Fluent Spanish Speaker or any other languages spoken to business level would be highly beneficial but not essential

Other Skills:

• High attention to detail with a technical focus
• Excellent verbal and client facing skills
• Collaborative
• Analytical and problem-solving attitude
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Microsoft Office
• Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)

The successful candidate will have a strong and positive work ethic with the ability to forge lasting relationships (both internal and external) at all levels.

Benefits

Standard benefits include but not limited to:

• 25 days of annual leave
• Private Medical insurance
• Flexible working
• Pension
• Discretionary bonus
• Employee equity participation schemes
• Regular external training