Lead Business Analyst - Orchestrade

  •  reference-number: 158110
  •  industry: Information and Communications Technology
  •  brand-id: R22106767
  •  brand-name: 02C3423

Responsibilities
  • Analyse current front to back processes (trading, risk, PnL, middle/back office) and document workflows, pain points, and control gaps.
  • Gather, structure, and prioritise business requirements from PMs, risk managers, operations, and compliance for new tools, reports, and system changes.
  • Translate requirements into clear functional specifications and work with developers/quant teams on design and implementation options.
  • Support testing (test cases, UAT, regression) and coordinate production releases for trading and risk platforms or internal tools.
  • Produce business and technical documentation (BRDs, user stories, process maps, runbooks) and keep them up to date.
  • Use data analysis to validate requirements, size issues, and monitor the impact of changes (e.g., trade flow metrics, latency, error rates).
  • Run workshops and interviews with stakeholders to clarify needs, uncover edge cases, and close open questions.
  • Create and refine product backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria; help prioritise work against business value and risk.
  • Perform impact analysis for changes (systems, data models, interfaces), including upstream/downstream dependencies.
  • Coordinate with legal, risk, ops, and external vendors when projects touch regulations, controls, or third party systems.
Skills
  • 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst working on Financial products with strong understanding of listed and OTC products (equities, futures, options, fixed income, FX), order lifecycle, and risk/PnL concepts.
  • Orchestrade hands-on experience is mandatory
  • Experience in FO on Treasury
  • Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner to ensure the requirements from the business are gathered in the appropriate manner.
  • Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneousl
  • Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment
  • Experience in writing user stories and working with JIRA /similar tools.
  • Hedge Fund previous experience is highly preferable
  • Technical knowledge (SQL, .NET)