Business Analyst

We are looking for a Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: 6-months – 37.5 hours/Week
Location: Toronto – Hybrid/Remote, twice a week on-site
Job ID number: C1172

Brief description of duties:

• The technical business analyst will create detailed specification documents that will be leveraged for the build.
• The resource will also work with the functional BA, business, and source system BA to analyze the data.
• Communicating with front office, Power BI cloud engineers, Power Platform engineers, FX vendor technology groups, and other internal resources.
• Creating user stories
• Creation of technical requirements, documents, listing, data mapping between source systems.
• Perform data analyses from both internal and external sources (including Wall Street Systems and Order management Systems)
• Work with engineers and technical delivery manager to define scope
• Collaborate with business users and functional business analyst to translate the business requirements into detailed technical requirements
• Draft user stories and acceptance criteria in parallel for system integration testing
• Gather any new technical requirements specific to other regions
• Assist the project team to create reports of testing results
• Leverage knowledge of quality assurance best practices

MUST haves:

• Capital Markets Business Analyst experience, with 3+ years’ recent experience using Front Office Systems
• Working experience in FX and Fixed Income, with experience in the following asset classes/products being asset: Commodities or Equities
• General knowledge of front to back processes for Trading, as well as knowledge of FX Trading and relative applications, e.g., Wallstreet FX, Kondor +, other industry FX systems
• Hands – on Database knowledge, using Oracle and SQL
• Good working knowledge of Agile project delivery, creation of user stories and acceptance

Nice to haves:

• Experienced with Order Management Systems (one or more of: Celer, Fidessa, ION, etc.)
• Hands on knowledge of Power BI is added advantage
• Nice to have cloud / Power Platform experience (Azure preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Good communication
• Detail orientation
• Takes initiative