Senior Business Analyst - (Front-to-Back) - Vendor integration (New York City Metropolitan Area)

As the founding entity of RAINBOW PARTNERS, Quanteam is a consulting firm specialized in Banking, Finance, and Financial Services. Through our core human values – proximity, teamwork, diversity, excellence – our 1000 expert consultants, hailing from 35 different nationalities, collaborate across 13 international offices: Paris, Lyon, New York, Montreal, London, Brussels, Luxembourg, Geneva, Lisbon, Porto, Casablanca, Madrid and Singapore.

Overview

We are supporting several clients in the East Coast with Orchestrade implementations and upgrades and are looking for a Senior Business Analyst with strong front-to-back office functional expertise . The ideal candidate has deep product knowledge in Fixed Income and/or Equity, strong exposure to the full trade lifecycle, and the ability to work closely with Front Office, Middle Office, Operations, and Technology teams to ensure successful delivery through go-live and post-go-live support.

This is a hands-on role requiring both delivery ownership and production support mindset, in a fast-paced environment (buy-side and/or investment banking).

Key Responsibilities

• Support Orchestrade implementation projects from requirements gathering through testing, UAT, cutover, and go-live
• Translate business needs into functional specifications / user stories for IT and delivery teams
• Drive workshops with stakeholders to define workflows across Front, Middle, Back Office
• Contribute to setup and configuration discussions (workflows, booking models, static data, etc.)
• Own and document end-to-end processes: trade capture → validations → confirmations → settlements → accounting → reporting
• Partner with Operations teams to ensure correct handling of events such as lifecycle changes, amendments, and reconciliations
• Provide strong functional support during business-critical periods (including go-live and hypercare)
• Define and execute test strategy (SIT/UAT), including test cases, test data, and defect triage
• Validate data quality and ensure upstream/downstream integrity (reference data, market data, static data)
• Coordinate issue resolution with internal IT teams, vendors, and end users
• Work face-to-face with stakeholders when required and ensure clear communication across teams
• Act as the bridge between business users and technical teams , ensuring alignment on priorities and delivery timelines

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst / Product Manager in Capital Markets environments
• Strong front-to-back functional knowledge in either:
• Fixed Income (Repo, Bonds, Rates, Credit, MBS)
• Equity (Cash, Derivatives, Swaps, Options)
• Multi-asset experience is a plus
• Proven experience working on trading/booking platforms (one or more of the following):
• Orchestrade (strong plus)
• Murex / Calypso / Summit (excellent substitutes)
• Strong understanding of key concepts:
• Trade workflows, lifecycle events, P&L / risk reporting, reconciliations, controls
• Hands-on experience with UAT/SIT , production support, incident triage, and root cause analysis
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills (Front Office exposure required)

Nice-to-Have

• Exposure to hedge fund environments or fast-paced buy-side delivery models
• Understanding of platform architecture and data flows (static data, reference data, integrations)
• SQL knowledge for validation and data analysis (nice-to-have)