Business Analyst trading platform

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the development of strategic and tactical solutions with business partners, e.g., Sales, Trading Desks, Technology, Business Management, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Legal, to achieve business objectives.
• Design solutions to help sales and trading desks optimize their daily tasks and adopt new regulations.
• Streamline pre-trade activities; Improve the selling processes and practices.
• Gather, clarify, and elaborate requirements with business stakeholders and other functional groups.
• Perform business analyses, conduct business feasibility studies, prepare user stories, outline acceptance criteria, and refine backlog.
• Facilitate UAT activities and conduct testing.
• Plan and manage projects.
• Assist in defining the project scopes, process flows, deliveries, and timelines.
• Track deliveries and their timelines; Get stakeholders updated.
• Eliminate dependencies and blockers.
• Help measure the success of project deliveries.
• Collaborate with product owners to align the product roadmap with the requirement roadmap.

Requirements

• University degree, majoring in business, finance, IT, or related disciplines
• Between 3 - 8 years of experience in project management or product development, covering trading platforms, trade settlement platforms, OR client statement/position reporting
• Good Understanding of structured products and their trading is an advantage.
• Good Understanding of trade lifecycle, e.g., order placement, execution, booking and settlement.
• Basic understanding of private banking and products we offer to clients.
• Self-motivated and solution focused
• Ability to facilitate discussions of complex topics effectively across business functions
• Ability to build key relationships, navigate complex resources, and adjust timeline
• Experience in Agile development practice will be an advantage.
• Good command of Chinese, incl. Mandarin, will be an advantage.
• Good-to-have: Basic understanding of selling processes, order taking, OR suitability framework
• Good-to-have: Design thinking and UX design