Business Systems Analyst

Location: Midvale, UT Salary: $55.00 USD Hourly - $60.00 USD Hourly Description:
About the Role
Seeking an experienced Business Systems Analyst to lead strategic analysis, platform evaluation, and migration planning for enterprise Foreign Exchange (FX) trading systems. This role focuses on assessing legacy trading platforms, evaluating modern solutions, and supporting migrations to strategic enterprise trading platforms. The position partners with business and technology stakeholders to define future-state trading capabilities, improve operational efficiency, strengthen regulatory compliance, and support large-scale trading platform transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis, strategic planning, and migration initiatives supporting the transition from legacy FX trading platforms to modern enterprise trading solutions.
• Assess current-state and future-state trading capabilities through business process analysis, capability assessments, gap analyses, vendor evaluations, and RFP support.
• Gather, analyze, validate, and document business, functional, technical, and non-functional requirements.
• Partner with stakeholders across FX Trading, Treasury, Operations, Risk Management, Finance, Compliance, and Technology teams.
• Analyze and optimize the end-to-end FX trade lifecycle, including trade capture, pricing, confirmations, settlements, treasury operations, market risk, accounting, and regulatory reporting.
• Define business and integration requirements for connectivity between trading platforms and downstream systems using SWIFT messaging, REST APIs, microservices, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, QA teams, infrastructure teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors throughout platform selection, design, implementation, testing, migration, and deployment.
• Support business process reengineering, solution design, data mapping, migration planning, testing strategy, user acceptance testing (UAT), production readiness, and post-production stabilization.
• Develop project artifacts including business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, process flows, user stories, use cases, data mapping documents, test scenarios, and implementation documentation.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops, business process reviews, and solution design sessions.
• Mentor junior Business Analysts and promote business analysis best practices and process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of Business Systems Analysis experience supporting Capital Markets, Treasury, Banking, or Financial Services technology initiatives.
• Hands-on experience supporting enterprise FX trading platforms such as Nasdaq Spectrum, ION, Calypso, or similar Capital Markets trading solutions.
• Strong understanding of the Foreign Exchange trade lifecycle, including:
• Spot
• Forwards
• Swaps
• Options
• Pricing
• Confirmations
• Settlements
• Treasury Operations
• Market Risk
• Regulatory Reporting
• Experience supporting enterprise platform modernization, migration, or digital transformation initiatives, including requirements gathering, business process analysis, gap analysis, vendor evaluations, RFP support, data migration, and business process reengineering.
• Strong knowledge of SWIFT financial messaging standards, including MT300, MT103, MT202, and related treasury messaging workflows.
• Experience supporting enterprise integrations using REST APIs, microservices, cloud-native architectures, and modern integration patterns within financial services environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, stakeholder management, communication, and technical documentation skills.
• Experience working within Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe.
• Experience supporting System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), production implementation, and post-production support.
• Working knowledge of SQL, data analysis, reporting tools, or business intelligence platforms.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Capital Markets transformation or enterprise trading platform replacement programs.
• Experience working with cloud-based financial services platforms and modern application architectures.
• Familiarity with FIX protocol, ISO 20022 messaging, or additional financial messaging standards.
• Experience supporting regulatory initiatives affecting Capital Markets or Treasury organizations.
• CBAP, PMI-PBA, Agile, Scrum, or SAFe certifications.

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