Lead Business Analyst - Orchestrade

Project description Luxoft has one of the world's leading Orchestrade practices. We are a top-tier Orchestrade Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration. We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered Orchestrade projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, commodities. Whether you possess a background in finance, technology, or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry or commodities industry would be of high interest to us. The project is a Trading and Position platform Implementation for Commodity products. You will be part of a Top Initiative for this commodity client. This is a brilliant opportunity to work on several type of commodity products and learn a new trading platform. You will have the ability to showcase the work directly to the End users. The team is responsible for the integration of a trading application (Orchestrade) used for: • Pre-deal origination workflow and post execution monitoring and life-cycle management. • Dedicated workflow, configuration of the platform, supporting business • Integration with Operations, Finance • Reporting, Reconciliation • Accounting The application is Orchestrade: - Orchestrade is in .Net (C#): Natively connected to Excel- Database: Microsoft SQL- Delivered In-House or Hosted (Amazon Web Services) Also, you will join our Orchestrade Practice and become a member of our open minded, progressive and professional team. You will have a chance to grow your functional and soft skills and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client. Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career. 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 Must have 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. Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills 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 simultaneously Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment Experience in writing user stories and working with JIRA /similar tools. Nice to have Hedge Fund previous experience is highly preferable Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment Have a willingness to learn new skills Attention to detail; ability to work independently and also as part of a group Technical knowledge (SQL, .NET) #J-18808-Ljbffr