Typical Day in Role
• Communicating with multiple stakeholders to aid in the implementation of Front office, middle office, TFRM team & Financial engineer team.
• Working with stakeholders across Canada and the US
• Conduct proper documentation
• Gathers requirements from business units and translates those to programmers and developers
• Leverage knowledge of equity products to drive success of project
• Working in an Agile environment
• Work closely with stakeholders within all business functions to assess the current and future states, perform gap analyses, derive business requirements, and design solutions that meets business and regulatory needs.
• Provides expert knowledge of cross-functional and business processes.
• Provides support production issues
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
• 10+ years’ experience as a BA, including experience with documentation, ability to create workflow diagrams, business requirements, etc.
• 10+ years’ experience with equity derivative products within capital markets (stocks, OTC Options, listed options, structured products, Pricing mechanism, Pricing aspects, life cycle invest)
• 3-5 years of experience with P&L Attribution process & Market risk sensitivities
• End to end trading application experience, downstream workflows – Accounting, settlement & confirmation
• 3+ years’ testing experience using both Excel and SQL.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders (front to back office within capital markets: developers, traders, etc.). Back-office exposure is most critical, although the role requires some exposure on collaboration with the front office to understand requirements.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
Nice-To-Have Skills:
• Ability to participate in programming or scripting for automated testing is an asset
• Advanced experience with SQL and databases is an asset
• Jira and Confluence experience is an asset
• Top Canadian banks experience in trading application project
Soft Skills:
• Able to document and clearly communicate with stakeholders
• Team player
Degrees or certifications:
• Bachelor’s degree a related field required.