CONTRACT TO PERM- Senior Product Analyst with OTC and Trade Lifecycle experience to work with one of our major banking clients- 38732

CONTRACT TO PERM- Senior Product Analyst with OTC and Trade Lifecycle experience to work with one of our major banking clients- 38732

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto- 1-2 days per week - subject to change/increase

Contract Duration: 6 months (MUST CONVERT TO PERM)

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: GBME Cost asset transaction and position manager - front office - integration with order management systems - presenting positions to traders - close partnership teams - user interface, instrument master
• Project: Regulation SHO- compliance with a particular regulation - regulatory framework SEC commission to govern short selling in equity markets in the US. Team currently consists of 4 BAs and 10 Developers

Typical Day in Role:

• Demonstrate an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities.
• Ensure business specifications/requirements documentation is accurately prepared and comprehensive to support sizing/development efforts and as input to various project documentation.
• Develop and deliver Business Requirements Documents, Design Documents, Use Cases, and Process Models as required.
• Work closely across GBME technology teams during all stages of the system development life cycle and bridge the gap between business and technology sides of the solution.
• Liaising between the business community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions that meet user needs.
• Build relationships and communicate effectively with colleagues in Global regions.
• Support production issues and handle escalations during Release cycles as needed.
• Perform ad hoc work as needed.
• Integration with Trade Origination, Order/Execution Management Systems;
• Integration with market, reference, and instrument data services;
• Data mapping between FIX protocol and proprietary Trade Lifecycle Schema (orders, fills, non-trading events, positions);
• Requirements and use case solicitation and clarification with various stakeholders including Sales and Trading, Support, Product Control, Other Middle and Back Office functions;
• Requirement documentation for services performing data enrichment, translation, aggregation, data access objects, interaction with messaging bus;
• User interface wireframing and design;
• Data flow, sequence diagramming;
• Interactive collaboration with development team to interpret requirements and deliver specific functionalities;
• Functional and regression testing, testing automation.
• Building requirements for aggregation services, exception services , FX, end of batch services, end of position generation, interfacing with stakeholders and gather input, and interface with relevant partnering teams, perform testing

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 8+ years of financial technology experience, with strong solutioning, architecture/technical background.

2) 3+ years’ Experience in capturing business requirements for building a Listed and OTC Products Position and Transaction Master Application covering Trade Capture, Trade Lifecycle, Integration with Pricing Models, Clearing, Settlement systems.

3) 3+ years’ Experience with Trade Life Cycle for listed and OTC product events such as Trade Booking/Management, Various Corporate Actions, Unwind, Rate Reset or Fixing Process, Realized Cashflows.

4) 3+ years’ Experience with end-to-end trade workflows among the Front, Middle and Back Offices systems.

5) 3+ years’ experience with databases such as SQL Server, with ability to create and run queries independently.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Familiar with Jira, Confluence delivery tracking and documentation software.

• Experience with FIX protocol or integration with Order/Execution Management Systems is an asset.

• Advanced Knowledge of derivative financial instruments such as Interest Rate Swap, Equity Total Swaps, Equity Options, Equities and Bonds is an asset.

• Familiarity with messaging bus technologies is an asset (e.g. Apache Kafka).

• Experience with near-real time systems in the capital markets space is an asset

• Proficient with Python or other scripting languages

• Ability to adapt quickly to new processes and standards, with a strong commitment to providing exceptional customer service.

• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and deliver working results.

• Experience with data flow, sequence diagramming, other software diagramming models is an asset.

• Delivery management in agile environment (i.e. prioritization, planning, managing, dealing with disruptions) is a bonus.

Education:

Bachelor’s

Best VS. Average Candidate:

Ideal candidate has the ability to think logically, critically, adapt to new circumstances and requirements - strong communication skills, ability to visualize complex processes in a way that is adjusted to the audience; experience with equity, trade lifecycle and instrument lifecycle

Fintech or capital market industries; previous orgs/titles: big 5 experience an asset, BA, product manager