Senior Business Analyst at Adaptive Financial Consulting, London, £Contract Rate Outside IR35)

WE ARE:

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world's leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for Mid - Senior Business Analyst services to support a significant initiative for one of our Investment Banking clients.

THE INDIVIDUAL PROVIDING THE SERVICES WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE:

• Significant experience working in the financial sector on Front-office trading platforms
• Exposure to FX Trading platforms and deep knowledge of FX products (Spot / Fwd / NDF / Swap / Options / Orders / Algo / TCA)
• Front office stakeholder relationship management experience;
• Experience delivering in an Agile/Scrum environment;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Experience creating Epics and User Stories for engineering teams
• Some experience with QA/Business Acceptance Testing;
• Experience working with UX designers;
• Some knowledge of client onboarding, client tiering, KYC

DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES:

• Help stakeholders in making their vision for the product materialise, especially in the early stages of each delivery phase
• Convey that vision to the team and define clear milestones for alignment purposes, and so they can make holistic design decisions that will support the delivery
• Create & maintain a backlog of deliverable stories for the team
• Be the stakeholders' proxy in the team, able to make quick, firm decisions when it comes to scope, requirements and prioritization/triage
• Involve team members when their perspective can bring value, including times when it can support scope and priority decisions
• Follow up during the implementation and testing phases to ensure delivery satisfies the requirements
• Drive the backlog review and estimation process and take part in planning activities
• Capture non-functional requirements and keep supportability in mind
• Define acceptance criteria and tests up front as part of a Business-Driven Development approach
• Use your personal experience with Agile delivery to take advantage of its strengths and mitigate its potential risks
• Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team (including but not limited to: real-time programming, high availability, TDD, BDD, UX design, DevOps concerns…)
• Work with distributed teams

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US

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THE PROCESS

Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us

We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here you will have three stage interviews:

1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.
2- A zoom chat with one of BA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience
3- A Face to Face interview (via Zoom).

But don't worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter.

Here is a little tip for you during those stages:

Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:

Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it's more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity.

All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles

Background check: the employment/engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive