Lead Business Analyst - Orchestrade

The team is responsible for the integration of the Orchestrade trading application, covering the following areas:

• Pre-deal origination workflows, as well as post-execution monitoring and full trade lifecycle management
• Design and maintenance of dedicated workflows, platform configuration, and business support
• Integration with Operations and Finance systems
• Reporting and reconciliation processes
• Accounting functionality and data alignment

The application ecosystem is based on Orchestrade, with the following characteristics:

• Developed in .NET (C#), with integration to Microsoft Excel
• Database layer built on Microsoft SQL Server
• Deployment options include both in-house installations and cloud-based hosting on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

As part of the Orchestrade Practice, participation involves working within a professional, open-minded, and progressive team environment. The role offers opportunities to enhance both functional and soft skills, while building deep expertise in the industry domain.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse current front to back processes (trading, risk, PnL, middle/back office) and document workflows, pain points, and control gaps.
• Gather, structure, and prioritise business requirements from PMs, risk managers, operations, and compliance for new tools, reports, and system changes.
• Translate requirements into clear functional specifications and work with developers/quant teams on design and implementation options.
• Support testing (test cases, UAT, regression) and coordinate production releases for trading and risk platforms or internal tools.
• Produce business and technical documentation (BRDs, user stories, process maps, runbooks) and keep them up to date.
• Use data analysis to validate requirements, size issues, and monitor the impact of changes (e.g., trade flow metrics, latency, error rates).
• Run workshops and interviews with stakeholders to clarify needs, uncover edge cases, and close open questions.
• Create and refine product backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria; help prioritise work against business value and risk.
• Perform impact analysis for changes (systems, data models, interfaces), including upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Coordinate with legal, risk, ops, and external vendors when projects touch regulations, controls, or third party systems.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst working on Financial products with solid understanding of listed and OTC products (equities, futures, options, fixed income, FX), order lifecycle, and risk/PnL concepts.
• Orchestrade hands-on experience is mandatory
• Experience in FO on Treasury
• Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner to ensure the requirements from the business are gathered in the appropriate manner.
• Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment
• Experience in writing user stories and working with JIRA /similar tools.

Nice to have:

• Hedge Fund previous experience is highly preferable.
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment.
• Have a willingness to learn new skills.
• Attention to detail; ability to work independently and also as part of a group.
• Technical knowledge (SQL, .NET).