CMC Markets are hiring a Senior Business Analyst to join the team. As the Senior Business Analyst you will have strong business analysis and technical experience. The role will require the user to liaise with business and technical teams to develop requirements for strategic programmes of work.
- With a strong emphasis on changes for Institutional clients, you will be required to lead workshops, provide detailed analysis and documentation of requirements resulting in a pipeline of new user stories for development teams.
- Once features are in development, you will require to help project manage the development life cycle. This involves monitoring progress of the development team, tracking story status, maintaining project plans and providing clear visibility on project status (including reporting and communicating outside of the team).
- As new features are completed by the developers you will also require to carry out testing to ensure the output satisfactorily meets the original requirements before being handed over to business teams.
- In this role you will occasionally be involved in assisting the support and customer facing teams to investigate and resolve live issues.
KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Financial background is essential. Lifecycle knowledge from client onboarding through to trading and/or settlement of asset classes and post-trade activities is highly advantageous. Exposure to multiple asset classes is desirable.
- Experience in driving collaboration across multiple teams internally and/or externally, including excellent communication skills and a core focus on delivery.
- Minimum of 3 years commercial experience as a Business Analyst embedded in a technology team.
- Proven experience of applying Agile software development methodologies is highly desirable.
- General exposure to working on Financial Trading platforms is a distinct advantage.
- Good working knowledge of the following software is desirable: Confluence, Jira, Miro
- Strong problem solving skills are required along with the ability to work effectively with minimal supervision, taking ownership of tasks large and small.
CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.