Business Analyst

We are looking for a Business Analyst for one of our clients in Singapore. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Capital Markets IT (Fixed Income – Rates).

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery of comprehensive business analysis to provide solutions for business needs, with a focus on interest rate (Rates) products.
• Act as the functional bridge between the Front Office Sales (Rates) desk and IT delivery teams, translating business needs into functional solutions.
• Work with the project team including product owner, senior developers, architects, and BAs to deliver business requirements and improve business processes and systems.
• Work closely with stakeholders to define requirements and various artifacts around application development or enhancement.
• Specification of business rules for regulatory reporting, business operations and transformations.
• Functional design and testing of solutions.
• Maintenance and promotion of best practices around the data dictionary of the bank.
• Interaction with developers to define implementation specs.
• Interaction with other IT teams to explain and communicate on Data services.
• Assisting with the daily operations through scrum, Jira and Kanban techniques.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Minimum 8 years of experience as a Capital Markets Business Analyst.
• Strong functional knowledge of Fixed Income products, specifically interest rate (Rates) products.
• Proven experience supporting Front Office Sales desks, including Sales/Trader workflow and pricing processes.
• Strong communication to bring consensus on requirements.
• Strong functional knowledge of financial products & regulatory reporting.
• Knowledge of MIFID2/SFTR/EMIR / any APAC transaction regulatory reporting principles is desirable.
• Experience of capital market processes, e.g. Pricing, Sales/Trader workflow, etc.
• Exposure to microservices-based architecture, Kibana, Collibra is a plus.
• Strong problem solving skills with ability to think out of the box.
• Excellent communications and proven documentation capabilities.
• Skilled in data analysis using database queries (SQL/Oracle/Sybase), TSQL.
• A knowledge of FPML & XML/XSLT/XPath would be an added advantage.