Business Systems Analyst

Business Systems Analyst

Requirement/Must Have:

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, preferably in fintech or financial services technology.
• Strong knowledge of derivatives products such as swaps, futures, options, forwards, or structured products.
• Solid understanding of the derivatives trade lifecycle and associated operational and system processes.
• Experience documenting system requirements, functional specifications, data mappings, and integration points.
• Strong understanding of SQL, relational databases, data analysis, and system interfaces.
• Experience working with APIs, file-based interfaces, message flows, and enterprise system integrations.
• Familiarity with SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery models.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across business and technical teams.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with trading, operations, risk, finance, compliance, and technology teams to gather, analyze, and document business and system requirements.
• Translate derivatives business processes into feature definition, process maps, data mappings, interface specifications, and user stories.
• Analyze front-to-back trade workflows including trade capture, confirmation, valuation, settlements, collateral, margin, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Create detailed feature definition, gap analyses, use cases, and workflow diagrams.
• Work closely with development (in-house and vendor) and QA teams to clarify requirements, validate technical solutions, and support system implementation.
• Define and document source-to-target mappings, reference data requirements, field-level transformations, and integration logic across upstream and downstream systems.
• Support enhancements and production issues involving APIs, batch processing, trade feeds, market data, and reporting pipelines.
• Participate in system testing, SIT, UAT, and defect triage.
• Perform impact analysis for system changes across trading platforms and post-trade ecosystem.
• Identify opportunities to improve product efficiency across derivatives processes.
• Assist in defining and maintaining a delivery roadmap for system enhancements and business-critical technology initiatives.
• Help prioritize backlog items by balancing business value, technical feasibility, regulatory needs, and operational risk.
• Partner with stakeholders and engineering teams to support release planning, scope definition, and feature prioritization.
• Track delivery progress, dependencies, and risks, and communicate status updates to business and technology leadership.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with trading platforms, risk systems, collateral platforms, or post-trade processing systems.
• Familiarity with interest rate, credit, FX, or equity derivatives.
• Working knowledge of FIX, FpML, SWIFT, XML, JSON, or other financial technologies.