Senior Business Analyst

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst with 8+ years of experience in trade and transaction reporting to join our team in Pune, India. Our client is a leading commodity trading and logistics company committed to building and maintaining world-class IT applications and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Produce Business Requirements relating to the Reporting of any trades and transactions across major Global Regulators (e.g. SFTR, CFTC, EMIR, HKMA, MAS, ASIC) to Trade / Swap Data Repositories (e.g. DTCC, Unavista, US SEC, etc).
• Fully document scope of all related business requirements, relating to each deliverable, and ensure these are understood by business and operational stakeholders and IT teams.
• Provide input into the generation of test cases to support the Test strategy and support any analysis to resolve defects.
• Work closely with the Product Owners and Architecture teams to ensure all regional deliveries are consistent with the global approach.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders (Business, Operations, Compliance, and IT) in understanding the impact of each business initiative on regulatory reporting.
• Work to ensure potential gaps and issues in solutions are risk assessed, and appropriate solutions/controls are defined.
• Perform data mapping analysis to understand the availability and quality of data.
• Manage project scope and requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Perform functional testing before the start of UAT.
• Provide UAT support, analyze, and resolve issues identified during user testing.
• Resolve functional and technical issues related to business applications.
• Provide input to technical design decisions and business application strategy.
• Establish and maintain communication with IT and Business Stakeholders, ensuring regulatory reporting requirements are properly addressed on all levels of system and procedural changes.

Requirements

• Must have

  • 8+ years of overall experience and 4+ years of experience in trade and transaction reporting.
  • Knowledge of trade & transaction reporting regimes like EMIR / Emir Refit, CFTC/ CFTC Refit, SFTR, MIFIR / MIFID II transaction reporting, ASIS / MAS reporting etc.
  • Good understanding of OTC derivatives products (Equity derivatives / Credit derivatives / FX derivatives / Commodity derivatives) and its lifecycle.
  • Prior experience with going through RTS and interpreting it and putting together Functional specification document.
  • Knows how to handle project complexity in terms of stakeholder management, conflict management, change management etc.
  • Experience working in team engagements to finalize new operating models and roadmaps for change across people, process, data and technology.
  • Adaptable to an evolving scope of tasks, comfortable with uncertainty as well as changing global requirements.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; expertise in setting and managing customer expectations.
  • Distinctive blend of business, IT, financial and communication skills, as this is a highly visible position with substantial impact.

• Nice to have

  • English: C2 Proficient

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work with a leading commodity trading and logistics company
• Remote work options
• Professional development budget

About the Company

Our client is a leading commodity trading and logistics company committed to building and maintaining world-class IT applications and infrastructure.