Market Data Analyst

at  Absa Bank Limited

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Work as part of a Market Data Analyst team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques, and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements. Translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realized. Following this analysis, work collaboratively within a broader team during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for application testing, continuous improvement, and ongoing support.
Job Description

Job Description

• Business requirement analysis leveraging financial market knowledge (including Business Case);
• Proactively build relationships, apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product & service) needs ahead of demand;
• Continuous engagement with business to enhance product knowledge;
• Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into solution design that integrates into a broader framework and is in line with strategic business direction;
• Prepare and prioritize the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions;
• Work collaboratively with both upstream and downstream teams to build a roadmap & vision for the products and services (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope);.
• Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria for all features;
• Define testing requirements (pass or fail test cases).
• Support the development of detailed business cases (including defining solution characteristics, effort estimations etc.);
• Monitor system stability and resilience during testing and in production;.
• Design bespoke data availability and quality metrics to address the needs of each trading desk.

Requirements

• At least a postgraduate degree in mathematics, statistics, or finance.
• Experience with financial markets, financial instruments and regulation is highly beneficial.
• Attention to detail, initiative-taking, and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Education
Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertise

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