Summary: This role is for a Business Analyst and Project Manager focused on the electronic trading platform for Rates products within an Investment Bank. The position requires strong expertise in Bonds and Swaps, eTrading, and project management within a large organization. The successful candidate will manage key functionalities, coordinate development efforts, and drive digital transformation initiatives. The role offers hybrid working arrangements and is classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ability & experience of walking the trading floor with confidence
• Writing actionable specs for their project, and ensuring all assigned developers have understood what needs to be done;
• Assisting and coordinating application development and implementation among development teams;
• Writing test plans and organising UAT phases;
• Executing functional and non-regression testing of the end-to-end service, including automated and manual testing;
• Documenting new functionalities and training users;
• Closely interacting with business and other quantitative research and IT teams in developing new features in the electronic trading platform and also in assisting them in the investigation of issues (eg post-event analysis, performance and scalability, latency reduction)
• Gathering continuous intelligence on the product's performance, customers, problems and opportunities; and initiating functional improvements to meet changing customer needs;
• Leading by example: ensuring that own behaviour as analyst exhibits the team's values of dedication, commitment and transparency at all times and under all circumstances;
• Stimulating and advocating Digital transformation throughout the entire Fixed Income organisation.

Key Skills:

• Strong knowledge of the Rates - Bonds and Swaps
• Significant and recent experience of eTrading
• Top academic background in economics and/or engineering
• At least one substantial prior experience (3y+) as a business analyst/project manager in a large organisation
• Extensive understanding of electronic trading venues, APIs and associated dataflows: market, static and trade data
• Experience of working with the ION Trading platform (nice to have)
• Significant prior professional experience in support, business analysis, project and/or product management, either at a financial institution or a software house
• Excellent communication skills in English, spoken and written (other languages advantageous)
• Innovative mentality
• Active interest in design of system architecture
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Any prior experience with Scripting, debugging or software development is a welcome plus
• Pragmatic approach to ensuring delivery on a timely basis

Salary (Rate): £900

City: London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Finance