Senior Business Analyst (Securities Field)

Key Responsibilities
1. Business Requirements & Communication:
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Work as a bridge between business teams (Retail, Operation, Custody, Risk, etc.) and development/system teams, ensuring requirements are clearly understood on both sides.
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Conduct workshops, interviews, and requirement sessions with stakeholders to gather, clarify, and refine business needs.
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Analyze and document business requirements with clear scope, assumptions, and constraints.
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Proactively raise questions, identify gaps, and highlight impacts and dependencies to stakeholders.
2. Documentation & Solution Analysis:
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Create and maintain comprehensive Business Analysis Documentation, including (but not limited to):
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Business requirements specifications (BRS) / System requirements specifications (SRS)
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User stories / Use cases o
Workflows & process diagrams o
User scenarios & edge cases o
Mockups / wireframes o
User journeys / customer journeys
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Collaborate with UX/UI, development, and QA teams to ensure functional designs and solutions are aligned with business requirements.
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Support translation of business requirements into high-level functional specifications for the development team.
3. Domain - Financial Markets & Trading Systems:
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Work on projects related to stocks, bonds, derivatives, fund, and settlement processes, particularly end-of-day (EOD) settlement and reconciliations.
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Analyze and support enhancements for broker trading systems, including:
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Backoffice Winform systems o
Home trading systems (desktop)
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Web trading systems o
Mobile trading systems (native / hybrid)
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Responsive mobile web trading systems
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Collaborate with operation and business teams to solve issues related to cash flow, P&L, customer assets, margin, and other trading functions.
4. AI-Enhanced Business Analysis:
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Use AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) to:
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Draft and refine requirement documents, user stories, test cases.
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Summarize meeting notes, regulations, and long business documents.
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Generate alternative flows, edge cases, or validation rules for requirements.
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Use developer-oriented AI tools (e.g. CursorAI, GitHub Copilot or similar) to:
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Review and understand API specs, JSON schemas, or basic technical flows more quickly.
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Support the creation of pseudo-code, SQL samples, or rough logic for development discussion.
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Apply AI tools responsibly, always verifying outputs and ensuring data confidentiality and compliance with company policies.
5. Project Lifecycle & Collaboration:
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Manage and track requirements throughout the project lifecycle (from initiation to UAT and go-live), ensuring changes are controlled and documented.
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Work closely with development and QA/testing teams to:
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Align on scope and solution design.
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Support creation of test scenarios and test cases.
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Clarify issues and defects during SIT/UAT.
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Participate in UAT support, including:
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Guiding business users on test scenarios.
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Consolidating feedback and change requests.
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Coordinating fixes with development teams.
6. Testing & Quality Assurance:
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Contribute to designing and reviewing test conditions for:
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Functional testing o
End-to-end testing o
Inbound & outbound interface testing o
Basic performance/load-related scenarios (together with QA/Performance teams)
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Validate whether implemented features meet the documented requirements and business expectations.
7. Mentoring & Knowledge Sharing (Senior-level, but non-manager):
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Provide guidance and on-the-job support to junior BAs or new team members.
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Share domain knowledge on securities, trading flows, and system behaviors across the team.
Contribute to internal knowledge bases (Confluence, Wiki, documents) and reusable BA templates.
Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
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3-5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably in securities, banking, or financial services.
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Solid knowledge of
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Stock trading (cash market)
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Bonds, derivatives, funds (basic to intermediate level)
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Settlement processes, especially end-of-day (EOD) cash/securities settlement.
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Hands-on experience in creating:
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Mockups, workflows, user journeys o
Process diagrams (e.g. BPMN), user stories, acceptance criteria.
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Experience working with broker trading systems or financial platforms is a strong plus.
Familiarity with cross-platform systems: backoffice, online trading (web/mobile), internal operation tools.
What We Offer
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Competitive salary and benefits package.
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Opportunity to work in a dynamic securities & fintech environment, directly contributing to core trading and digital channels.
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Exposure to modern AI tools and practices in business analysis and system design.
. Room for growth into Lead/Principal BA or Product Owner roles based on performance.