Description

• Opportunity to work on equities, derivatives, and Japan stock market-facing systems.
• Highly supportive manager and global team culture.
• End-to-end exposure to full life cycle of financial products across Front, Middle, and Back Office.

A top global securities company is searching for top-level talent to fill the role of business analyst in Equity Derivatives IT. The team is five people team located globally at multiple locations. The position will cover Global clients with focus on APAC region. The position involves working closely with the global/regional Business Analysis, Project Management, Development, Testing and Support teams across multiple locations delivering front office solutions. Candidate needs to have strong problem-solving abilities and a keen interest in the equity derivatives business. The successful candidate will be a proactive team player with a drive for success and a discipline to meet tight deadlines under pressure.

Responsibilities:

• Gather business requirements by working closely with various business users - trading, operations, finance, risk & back office technology

• Documenting requirements and working with development team for implementation

• Coordinating System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing

• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope and on budget

• Develop project plans and track progress including updates to management and stakeholders.

• Co-ordinate project meetings and report on status across the work streams.

• Mitigate risks and escalate issues to management and stakeholders

Requirements: Mandatory

• Degree holder or above, with 3 to 10 years of relevant working experience.

• Excellent communications skills both verbal and written in English and Japanese

• Experience with business analyst functions - gathering requirements and documenting them, coordinating User Acceptance Testing, interacting with different business units

• Ability to examine project needs, business needs, and provide improvements on them

• Excellent analytical skills, able to perform detailed gap analysis on multiple systems

• Experience with financial products across various asset classes.

• Experience within the IT Project Life Cycle as well as expert knowledge of Agile project management principles and practices

• Strong presentation skills, an excellent understanding of Project Management concepts and an ability to champion and challenge these processes

• Ability to influence key decision makers, peer groups and functions outside direct control, excel in a structured but complex working environment and possess clear presentation skills to delivery programme status providing transparency to sponsors and stakeholders

Preferred :

• Knowledge of Derivative products will be nice to have.

• Skilled in using MS-Office tools - Excel, Work, Visio and Project

• Database knowledge and general SQL ability

• Development experience in any programming language will be nice to have