Fixed Income Electronic Trading Business Analyst

Responsibilities Kforce has a client that is seeking a Fixed Income Electronic Trading Business Analyst. This role will work onsite in Midtown NYC 5 days a week - with the potential for some remote work. Our client is running a greenfield project to enhance its electronic trading offering within Fixed Income. Working closely with the fixed income trading business both in London and Spain, this team is delivering on the 3 year strategy to build out a new eTrading system to replace an existing vendor system. The project is sponsored at high levels within the business. Summary: As a Business Analyst, you will be collaborating to ensure the team deliver a high-quality solution that meets the needs of the business both in terms of required functionality but also from a technical workflow perspective. Using industry best practices for documenting and communicating the requirements to both the technical team implementing as well as to the non-technical stakeholders. Knowledge of the agile process and how to structure requirements to facilitate this is key to the project's success, as is working closely with the various stakeholders to break the larger stories down into smaller stories to allow the sprint management. We are looking for candidates with knowledge of the Fixed Income electronic trading businesses and experience within front-office development teams. Duties: • Work closely with business sponsors to elicit requirements to deliver the project milestones • Document these requirements in jira and structure them into epics, user stories and tasks • Explain requirements to the development team and work closely with them to deliver the features • Perform UAT testing of newly developed features • Work closely with partner technology teams and collaborate effectively • Potential to line manage developers, dev Ops and QA resources and to co-ordinate hiring and on-boarding of new team members Requirements • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or a related field, or substantial practical experience of software delivery at an advanced level • Deep product knowledge of rates or credit products - ideally both • Detailed knowledge of the D2C and D2C eTrading workfows in the market for Fixed Income • Experience as a hands-on business analyst within a front-office development team for an investment bank • Energetic, motivated and determined • Pragmatic and results-oriented • Adaptable to diverse set of responsibilities • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills • Productive and able to manage time effectively • Strong written and verbal communication skills Desirable • Experience working in an agile development team • Experience of managing IT projects The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave. Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law. This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions. Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. By clicking “Apply Today” you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages or emails from Kforce and its affiliates, and service providers. Note that if you choose to communicate with Kforce via text messaging the frequency may vary, and message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You will always have the right to cease communicating via text by using key words such as STOP.