Lead Business Analyst - FO

Luxoft has one of the world's leading Orchestrade practices. We are a top-tier Orchestrade Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration.
We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered Orchestrade projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, commodities.

Whether you possess a background in finance, technology, or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry or commodities industry would be of high interest to us.
The project is a Trading and Position platform Implementation for Commodity products.

You will be part of a Top Initiative for this commodity client.
This is a brilliant opportunity to work on several type of commodity products and learn a new trading platform.
You will have the ability to showcase the work directly to the End users.

The team is responsible for the integration of a trading application (Orchestrade) used for:
. Pre-deal origination workflow and post execution monitoring and life-cycle management.
. Dedicated workflow, configuration of the platform, supporting business
. Integration with Operations, Finance
. Reporting, Reconciliation
. Accounting

The application is Orchestrade:
- Orchestrade is in .Net (C#): Natively connected to Excel
- Database: Microsoft SQL
- Delivered In-House or Hosted (Amazon Web Services)

Also, you will join our Orchestrade Practice and become a member of our open minded, progressive and professional team.
You will have a chance to grow your functional and soft skills and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client.
Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career.

Responsibilities:. Analyse current front to back processes (trading, risk, PnL, middle/back office) and document workflows, pain points, and control gaps.
. Gather, structure, and prioritise business requirements from PMs, risk managers, operations, and compliance for new tools, reports, and system changes.
. Translate requirements into clear functional specifications and work with developers/quant teams on design and implementation options.
. Support testing (test cases, UAT, regression) and coordinate production releases for trading and risk platforms or internal tools.
. Produce business and technical documentation (BRDs, user stories, process maps, runbooks) and keep them up to date.
. Use data analysis to validate requirements, size issues, and monitor the impact of changes (e.g., trade flow metrics, latency, error rates).
. Run workshops and interviews with stakeholders to clarify needs, uncover edge cases, and close open questions.
. Create and refine product backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria help prioritise work against business value and risk.
. Perform impact analysis for changes (systems, data models, interfaces), including upstream/downstream dependencies.
. Coordinate with legal, risk, ops, and external vendors when projects touch regulations, controls, or third party systems.

Mandatory Skills Description:. Experience in FO on any treasury platform (e.g., Murex, Orchestrade, Calypso etc)
. 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst working on Financial products with strong understanding of listed and OTC products (equities, futures, options, fixed income, FX), order lifecycle, and risk/PnL concepts.
. Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner to ensure the requirements from the business are gathered in the appropriate manner.
. Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills
. Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources
. Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
. Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment
. Experience in writing user stories and working with JIRA /similar tools.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:. Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment
. Have a willingness to learn new skills
. Attention to detail ability to work independently and also as part of a group
. Technical knowledge (SQL, .NET)