Business Analyst

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Business Analyst LondonContractMy Client is looking for a BA with a Finance background with broad knowledge of financial instruments, including: OTCs, Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, Securities Financing Transactions inc. Repos and Stock Borrow Lending, ETDs, FX, Equities and ETDs.Role Objectives. Working within a DevOps Pod with the focus on modelling data into a new Big Data platform and producing extracts for Finance and Regulatory Reporting systems.Analysing and capturing functional & non-functional requirementsWriting data mapping specificationsModelling trade, risk, accounting and underlying reference data from a variety of source systems covering all asset classesRole has a cross-functional aspect, with focus on analysis, though testing and support activities may also be undertaken in line with DevOps principlesTaking ownership of tasks that will be delivered in bi-weekly sprint cyclesParticipation in Daily Stands-ups, Backlog Refinement and Iteration Planning meetingsCollaborating closely with Finance Change, upstream providers and downstream data consumers to ensure data requirements are fully understood and expectations are metEnsuring that defects, data quality and data modelling issues are quickly resolvedSkills requiredCross-functional business function knowledge on Front Office, MiddleOffice, BackOffice, Finance (Product Control, Accounting), Risk and Reg ReportingWorking knowledge on capital markets cross-asset (FX, EQ, FI, Rates,Credit, Commodity) Products (Cash and Derives including Listed, OTC, Structured and Exotics)Working experience on Front-to-Back Trade lifecycle, Booking Models and FO-BO-GL RecsPrevious experience on Data Modelling of Trade,Position, Product, Cashflow, Valuation, Risk, Collateral, Accounting, Client,Reference and Market DataHands on Technical and Data Analysis skills on Spark SQL, Git, XML/XSD, JSON/Protobuf , REST APIs, CICD Pipelines, Data processing pipelinesDemonstrable experience of data sourcing and data analysis skills including liaising with upstream systems and ensuring end-to-end clarity of requirements across multiple teamsStrong technical skills, especially in both writing and interpreting SQLA proven track record in delivery of large scale data centric projects in previous domains to tight deadlinesExperience of analysis techniques / methodologyExcellent interpersonal skills, with ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with teammates or with senior stakeholdersExperience of an Agile/Scrum/DevOps delivery environmentHigh levels of enthusiasm and a desire to deliver the best quality products possible along with maintaining very high service levelsBroad experience of ETL type processes, data warehouse type systems and associated database technologies (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle)Strong working knowledge of SDLC tools including JIRA and Git.If you feel you would be suitable, please send in your CV