Lead FX Business Analyst

at  London Stock Exchange Group

PROVEN EXPERIENCE

Excellent understanding of trading systems on FX products (spot, forwards, swaps and options) including non vanilla products.
Experience with market data, trade pricing, etc.
Good understanding of fix protocol
Understanding of Post trade processes and pre-trade checks
Ability to converse fluently on above with Senior Product Management on above topics

SKILLS REQUIRED

Pro-active self-starter, able to tackle high-level tasks with minimal direction; also to formulate, refine and propose new insights.
Can dive into the detail when needed to tackle problems and can also ask the right questions to complete the picture.
Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present sophisticated subjects clearly and to make them accessible to others.
Produce detailed, unambiguous user stories so that developers and QA are working with the same understanding.
Ability to clearly articulate non-functional requirements e.g. response time, throughput, resilience; experience with low latency, high availability platforms would be helpful.
Partnering with global teams including Product, Architecture and Development are key to this role.
You will use Agile concepts like backlog refinement, MVP and feature increments to help lead the flow of work and also to handle expectations.
Education - Bachelors or Masters Degree

Shape the future of robust and scalable backend systems that power critical financial applications on a multi dealer FX Platform!
Run a small team of Business Analysts spread out in various locations.
Setup strategy for covering the entire requirement which includes clients, operations and support concerns by mobilising your team.
Utilise your experience to write requirements for the development team you work with.
Build positive relationship with Product team to understand the challenges that we are trying to solve and provide effective solutions!
Provide requirement elaboration and participate in issue triages
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