The team is responsible for the integration of the Orchestrade trading application, covering the following areas:
- Pre-deal origination workflows, as well as post-execution monitoring and full trade lifecycle management
- Design and maintenance of dedicated workflows, platform configuration, and business support
- Integration with Operations and Finance systems
- Reporting and reconciliation processes
- Accounting functionality and data alignment
The application ecosystem is based on Orchestrade, with the following characteristics:
- Developed in .NET (C#), with integration to Microsoft Excel
- Database layer built on Microsoft SQL Server
- Deployment options include both in-house installations and cloud-based hosting on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
As part of the Orchestrade Practice, participation involves working within a professional, open-minded, and progressive team environment. The role offers opportunities to enhance both functional and soft skills, while building deep expertise in the industry domain.
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.
Required Skills:
- 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst working on Financial products with solid 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.
Nice to have:
- Hedge Fund previous experience is highly preferable.
- 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).
