Business Analyst - Enterprise Data Systems (FTC/B2B 12 months)

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity.

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, The StoneX Group is made up of four segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Business Segment Overview: Empower individual investors – and yourself – in the world of retail through a range of different financial products rooted in innovation and market intelligence. From FX and CFDs to precious metals, master an exciting world of wealth management tools.

Responsibilities

Position Purpose: To provide the link between the business and the development team. To analyze, document and propose solutions for large/and or complex business areas. To include the definition of requirements, agreeing functional specifications, system testing and coordination of user acceptance testing.

Primary duties will include:

• Collecting, understanding and transmitting the business requirements for the project, and
• translating these into functional specifications for the development team.
• Work with product owners and project managers to deliver key development work on time to
• meet required deadlines.
• Take part in pre-planning with other Team Lead, Management and Stakeholders, in order to
• prioritise and estimate project delivery timelines.
• Be an active participant in sprint retrospectives and take any actions forward for continual
• improvement on the team’s ability to deliver.
• Support QA with test scenarios & help with test scripts.
• Coordinate schedules to plan user acceptance testing and manage the feedback process.
• Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
• Work with developers to understand data structure and implementation.
• Interpret data input/output requirements into and out of 3rd party systems and determine
• approach strategy.
• Liaise with global users, so must be able to coordinate their time appropriately across time
• zones.
• Coordinate with other Business Analysts for cross team requirements analysis.

Qualifications

To land this role you will need:

• 3 – 5 years end to end project lifecycle experience in a similar role with a trading company
• Ability to access requirements and define solutions
• Knowledge of financial systems
• SQL – Data analysis to a competent standard
• Excel – Data/Calculation modeling to a competent standard (VLOOKUPS, Pivot Tables etc.)
• Strong Mathematics
• Understanding of market derivatives across a broad asset spectrum (Indices, Equities,
• Commodities etc.)
• Results orientated with excellent communication skills and must be fluent in English, both
• written & verbal
• Experience within an agile development environment
• Possesses understanding in the areas of application programming, database & system design

Working environment:

• Hybrid (2 days from home, 3 days from the office)
• FTC (UoP) or B2B for min. 12 months