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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Minimum 5 years experience as an IT Business Analyst, ideally within financial services or financial market infrastructure.Strong experience within securities, settlement, post-trade and/or custody.Good understanding of Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) and their role within the financial markets ecosystem.Understanding of the securities lifecycle, including areas such as trade processing, settlement, positions, custody and/or corporate actions.Knowledge of CSD Regulation (CSDR) and the wider regulatory environment affecting securities settlement would be highly desirable.Strong understanding of securities market messaging standards, particularly ISO 15022 and/or ISO 20022.Knowledge of securities market practices and standards developed through organisations such as SMPG would be advantageous.Proven experience eliciting, analysing, documenting and managing complex requirements.Strong experience producing functional and non-functional requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.Experience with Business Analysis modelling techniques including process modelling, use cases, story mapping, BPMN and/or UML.Experience supporting testing activities including test scenarios, system testing and UAT.Experience delivering complex technology change using methodologies such as Agile/Scrum, SAFe, Waterfall and/or V-Model. Responsibilities: Act as a key interface between business stakeholders, technology teams and other delivery functions.Understand the business drivers behind operational, functional, tactical and strategic change initiatives and translate these into clear technology and business requirements.Work closely with stakeholders to understand complex business problems, processes and needs.Challenge requirements constructively and propose viable business and technology solutions.Lead and facilitate requirements gathering workshops with stakeholders across Business and IT.Analyse existing business processes, systems and data flows and identify opportunities for improvement.Produce high-quality business, stakeholder, functional and non-functional requirements.Develop user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases and other appropriate Agile delivery artefacts.Produce process and system models using techniques such as BPMN, UML, story mapping and data modelling.Work closely with developers, architects, testers, Product Owners and other technology stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.Support the implementation and deployment of system changes, providing stakeholders with guidance throughout the change process.Produce and validate scenarios required to test new systems and functionality.Participate in and, where required, execute different phases of testing.Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and client/business acceptance activities.Ensure requirements remain traceable throughout design, development, testing and implementation.Identify risks, issues and dependencies associated with proposed changes.Promote Business Analysis best practice and contribute to continuous improvement across the wider BA community. Technologies: BPMNSupportUMLSwift More:
We are a major financial services organisation operating in a highly regulated and business-critical securities environment. This is a long-term contractor role based in London with a hybrid working arrangement. You will join a collaborative Agile delivery team supporting technology solutions for securities, settlement and post-trade services. We are seeking someone who can work effectively between Business and Technology, and who brings strong knowledge of Central Securities Depositories (CSDs), securities settlement, post-trade processes, financial market infrastructure, and securities messaging standards such as ISO 15022 and ISO 20022. Rates depend on experience and client requirements.
last updated 35 week of 2026