JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Client Institutional Trade Processing’s (“ITP”) mission is to enable end-to-end straight-through processing of the post-trade lifecycle by providing buy-side, sell-side, and custodian clients with an integrated platform that reduces manual touches, decreases settlement fails, and promotes settlement finality across asset classes and markets. The ITP Platform Services Group is an essential function that manages and drives the strategy of key shared assets across the entire ITP Platform.
• Platform Services is composed of two functional areas:
• Platform Interfaces is responsible for current and future interfaces that ITP offers to its customers (APIs, FIX, SWIFT, JSON, XML to name a few). Through collaboration with customers and internal teams, we define and execute on a roadmap that allows us to continue providing completive interface options to our customers.
• Identifying and Access Management is key to the way we properly regulate permissions and access to all ITP applications. Our IAM efforts are usually heavily cross-functional, and all product releases across ITP have a level of involvement with this function.
• We are looking for an experienced, energetic, and technology-minded Senior Business Analyst to join our ITP Platform Services team to undertake a key role in these functional areas. You must be excited to get your hands on getting things done!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• As part of the ITP Platform Services group, you will support the Head of Platform Services to define and execute an interface and IAM strategy for ITP that will deliver on the business vision of an integrated platform across all products and services. This role will require you to partner across the enterprise, ITP, and our clients to deliver on the next generation of machine-to-machine interfaces that enable seamless integration and onboarding of new clients, as well as the upselling of existing clients.
• Take part in exciting modernization initiatives for ITP Interfaces and IAM products.
• Drive key message format analysis to help ITP strengthen and standardize its FIX messaging capabilities.
• Play a key role in building and rolling out client integration-focused products.
• Work closely with product management to identify gaps/opportunities.
• Identify and design solutions to address those gaps/opportunities.
• Road-test those solutions with internal and external clients to make sure they work for them.
• Express that solution in clear stories that inform the rest of the development team to what they need to build and test.
• Support other members of the delivery team as the onsite voice of the customer, resolving queries as they are raised.
• Moves project forward by stepping into other functional roles (testing, iteration management, etc.), when applicable
• Author documentation for the functionality being delivered in iterations.
• Partner with internal stakeholders such as Integration and Documentation to bring their product to market.
• Help build BA standards and best practices.
• Provide second-level support to external and internal customers.
• Acts as an evangelist for their product.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Experience as a software business analyst
• Experience with various Interfaces offered to customers (JSON, XML, SWIFT messages, FIX protocol, etc.)
• Experience with equity and fixed income post-trade processing gained at a buy or sell side firm or a vendor.
• Experience with identify management, authentication, access control/permission of functionality and data.
• Experience with databases, SQL and data modeling, and data analysis
• Understanding of core technical concepts related to B2B system integration.
• Agile methodology
• Certifications in Business Analysis or Agile are a plus
• You are independent, delivery oriented, and eager to solve problems.
• A well-developed sense of humor essential

ABOUT: The client safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions, and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry’s needs and we’re working to continually improve the world’s most resilient, secure, and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost, and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle. The client proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and giving people the freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork.  When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A Client career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.