Our Client, a large financial institute is looking for a systems analyst as part of the Global Trade Reporting Regulatory Programme. The SA will work on trade reporting releases involving multiple regulators with a 4-6 month life cycle. The scope of the work will cover trade reporting solutions using fpml xml trades across Credit, Rates, FX, Commodities and Equities OTC and ETD derivatives globally for a number of regulations.

Responsibilities:

• The system analyst will work collaboratively with solution designers to define the detailed functional requirements for specific business requirements. This would involve interaction with business stakeholders. This would include responsibility for review and sign off activities.
• The core TR development is using agile methodology and role involves writing the detailed technical stories that define the technical requirement, have suitable sample trade and reference data and define the test conditions.
• Stories must be clear enough for stakeholder approval and for developers to commence development. System analysts will need to present completed stories to both developers and senior solution design team.
• The role is to act as an SME for each piece of work from technical design, through development until testing is complete. This includes providing SME support to developers and testers. Also involves acting in triage role for defect investigation.
• Objective is successful delivery of solution to production not just document production.
• In doing so, the team member will work closely with the assigned Programme Manager, Release Managers, the business and technology design and development teams.

Requirements:

• Deliver successful solutions that work well and are flexible to change.
• Familiarity working with Agile development methodology.
• Ability to work as part of a Global Team, working across different time zones and with different teams.
• Understanding of trade capture flows (e.g. booking scenarios for OTC products & related clearing activities), as well as middleware, counterparty reference data, confirmation & clearing processes), preferably across a variety of OTC Asset Classes (Credit, Rates, FX, Commodities and Equities).
• RTC, Quality Centre, Fpml and Trade reporting experience preferred.