We are looking to onboard a Senior Business Analyst (Trading) for one of our clients in Melbourne. Your role is as follows:
Job Scope
* Engage closely with traders, risk managers, and the middle office to gather and document functional requirements related to trade booking, life cycle events, and risk reporting.
* Engage closely with traders, risk managers, and middle office to gather and document functional requirements related to trade booking, life cycle events, and risk reporting.
* Act as the functional bridge between business users (front office, risk, ops) and IT development teams (both local and global).
* Validate risk engine outputs and collaborate with quant/dev teams to test and calibrate new models or metrics.
* Define UAT test scenarios and scripts aligned with business requirements.
* Coordinate and support user testing, including data validation, regression testing, and issue resolution.
Tech Specifications
* 10+ years of experience in a Business Analyst role within trading, commodities, or financial services environments.
* Strong domain knowledge in trade life cycle, market risk, and front-to-back trading workflows.
* Experience with trading or risk systems (e.g., Orchestrade, Murex, Endur, Beacon, Calypso).
* Good understanding of data handling and querying (e.g., SQL, Excel, scripting for analysis).
* Ability to write clear functional requirements and work independently on business process analysis.
* Proficient in writing and validating functional specs, test cases, and UAT scenarios.
* Solid knowledge of trading concepts such as Greeks, VaR, P&L, trade capture, and curve management.