Front Office- Technical Business Analyst
Emagine Consulting – Investment Banking
£700 - £750 per day
London – Hybrid
emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.
We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.
Overview: emagine is seeking an experienced Front Office Technical Business Analyst to join our consultancy team, working with a leading investment
The purpose of the role will be to apply analytical expertise to deliver a range of Front Office projects, working with colleagues in Risk, Regulatory and Technology.
As the Technical Business Analyst, you will be expected to have significant experience in analysing, challenging, designing and documenting complex business processes - balancing a variety of key stakeholders interests with a robust focus on systems change and deriving efficiency to deliver optimal outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Liaise with stakeholders across Front Office, Risk and Technology teams, to assemble business requirements and drive delivery for strategic projects.
Manage expectations of various stakeholder groups and help negotiate solutions to complex problems.
Help put together and manage detailed documentation covering Risk calculations and other processing, to be used to discuss technology implementation details with the Business users and Market Regulators in various countries/regions.
Facilitate and drive project meetings with both business and technology teams.
Ability to trace changes in day to day exposures to changes in markets, books and or legal agreements.
Where feasible develop excel prototypes to demonstrate and analyse risk calculations.
Full lifecycle management for Change projects and supporting the Programme/Project Managers for project delivery (in particular the Front Office (Global Markets) Programme Manager)
Partners with the business SMEs, Technology, Risk and Compliance.
Manages risk and ensures documentation is in place to record the details of project delivery and testing to audit standard.
Day to day contact person for Agile teams, providing input into scrums and creating business documentation and tracking deliverables as required.
Experience Needed:
Experience as a Business Analyst within a Front Office environment, in an investment banking context.
Proven experience with SWAPS, FX, Cash, Bonds, Repos, and other similar traded products.
Experience with Fidessa or similar system with focus on, configuration, trade booking, and lifecycle management.
Experience in supporting business requirements gathering and contributing to technical design.
Knowledge of trade flow, trading systems and related concepts and technology, including valuation and client/market risk management
Proven track record of delivery of Front Office projects. Experience of adherence to governance frameworks / implementation and handover to BAU
Experience of different project delivery methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall, PRINCE2
Able to translate strategies into plans that can be effectively executed.
In-depth understanding of the FS landscape and experience in risk/technology focused projects.
Experience with Python desired but not essential
Ability to conduct detailed product analysis and map pricing models within application templates.
The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.
We pride ourselves on;
Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model
Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development
Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise
Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.
Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:
Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction
Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs
Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation
Interested?
At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.
If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.
“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”
