Electronic Trading - Junior Business Analyst

Kforce has a client that is seeking an Electronic Trading - Junior Business Analyst in Tampa, FL. Overview: The client is running a greenfield project to enhance its electronic trading offering within Fixed Income. Working closely with the fixed income trading business both in London and Spain, the team is delivering on the 3-year strategy to build out a new eTrading system to replace an existing vendor system. The project is sponsored at high levels within the business. As a Junior Business Analyst you will be collaborating to ensure the team deliver a high-quality solution that meets the needs of the business both in terms of required functionality but also from a technical workflow perspective. Using industry best practices for documenting and communicating the requirements to both the technical team and implementing as well as to the non-technical stakeholders. Knowledge of the agile process and how to structure requirements to facilitate this is key to the project's success as is working closely with the various stakeholders to break the larger stories down into smaller stories to allow the sprint management. We are looking for candidates with knowledge of the Fixed Income electronic trading businesses and experience within front-office development teams. Responsibilities:

• Work closely with business sponsors to elicit requirements to deliver the project milestones
• Document these requirements in Jira and structure them into epics, user stories and tasks.
• Explain requirements to the development team and work closely with them to deliver the features
• Perform UAT testing of newly developed features
• Work closely with partner technology teams and collaborate effectively
• Potential to line manage developers, dev Ops and QA resources and to co-ordinate hiring and on-boarding of new team members
• Deep product knowledge of rates or credit products; Ideally both
• Detailed knowledge of the D2C and D2C eTrading workfows in the market for Fixed Income
• Experience as a hands-on business analyst within a front-office development team for an investment bank
• Energetic, motivated and determined
• Pragmatic and results-oriented
• Adaptable to diverse set of responsibilities
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Productive and able to manage time effectively
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Experience working in an agile development team
• Experience of managing IT projects.