Lead Business Analyst - Orchestrade

Project details
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

Requirements
. 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.

. Orchestrade hands-on experience is mandatory

. Experience in FO on Treasury

. 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.