Business Analyst (Capital Market Experience)
Job Description
Job Title: Business Analyst (Capital Market Experience)
Location: Toronto, ON (Thrice a Week Onsite)
Contract Opportunity
Responsibilities:
Responsible for generating requirements from the front office and Risk management that will include complex business and financial solutions. Frequent interaction with developers, project managers, front office, quants, and functions.
Participate in design and analysis, including understanding deliveries encompassing pricing, risk, trade flow.
Understand and document current and future state architecture and functional processes across the Equity derivatives business technology framework.
Major contributor in design and analysis of the trading platform, including understanding deliveries encompassing pricing, risk, trade flow.
Working closely with FO, Quant, MR, various support teams and other IT teams on a daily basis
Carry out analysis of regression & QA results and formally documenting the analysis/providing commentary to business users
Work closely with QA and DEV team for root cause analysis for system upgrade GUI/batch test issues and breaks
Must have:
8+ Years Business analyst experience, including data analysis experience, such as assessing the data, performing data mining & mapping, defining data lineage & transformation rules.
Detailed financial knowledge within areas previously supported, in Equity products both cash and derivatives (Options, Futures, Swaps, Exotics, etc.), ideally with experience in other asset classes as well (Fixed income, commodities, multi-asset), including pricing, risk and P&L.
A good understanding of P&L analysis, attribution, risks, Greeks, and VaR
Comfortable with SQL
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
Nice-to-have:
Experience with 3rd party applications a plus (Sophis, Murex, Calypso, etc.).
Experience with various regulatory risk reporting, (FRTB, Volcker, etc..)
General knowledge of front-to-back trade lifecycle: risk frameworks, market data, funding, collateral management, trade execution venues, etc.
Good understanding of QA processes and Procedures
Experience with Python or other programming languages
