Front Office Business Analyst - FX Trading Technology in London

London (Hybrid) x3 Days on-site

£600-£700

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication to delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are currently looking for a dynamic individual to join our Technology Practice as a Technical Business Analyst, delivering key projects as part of our Front Office change team. As a lead Business Analyst within the project team, this role involves working directly with FX Traders, Sales, Quants, and Technology teams. The Business Analyst will deliver improvements to live, business-critical trading systems. The role requires strong Front Office trading knowledge, the ability to translate complex business needs into clear, actionable functional specifications, and hands-on involvement through delivery, testing, and implementation.

The role:

• Working directly on the trading floor writing actionable specs for strategic project initiatives, and ensuring all technical teams have understood what needs to be done.
• Partner closely with FX Front Office stakeholders (Trading, Sales, Structuring) to support delivery of enhancement-driven initiatives across the TFX platform.
• Operate as a trusted Front Office technology partner, capturing business needs and translating them into high-quality functional requirements.
• Engage daily with Quants, Engineering, Operations, Risk, Finance, and Compliance to ensure aligned and controlled delivery.
• Perform detailed business, systems, and data analysis, including elicitation, documentation, validation, and sign-off of requirements.
• Produce clear, actionable functional specifications covering workflows, data models, calculations, and control logic.
• Analyse relationships between market data, pricing analytics, trade capture, and valuation outputs.
• Deliver enhancements across pricing, execution, analytics, and market data components of the FX trading platform.
• Support initiatives impacting both electronic and non-electronic FX trading flows, including exception handling and manual workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering and data teams working on Big Data platforms and KDB, supporting high-volume market data and trading analytics use cases.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Strong, hands-on understanding of FX markets and FX trading products; exposure to Rates or wider FICC is beneficial.
• Proven Business Analysis experience supporting Front Office FX trading platforms in a banking environment.
• Demonstrable experience delivering enhancements on live trading systems.
• In-depth knowledge of the FX trade lifecycle, from pricing and execution through booking and post-trade.
• Technical proficiency in Python and Java, sufficient to engage credibly with engineers and data teams.
• Experience working with Big Data platforms and KDB.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across global, cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to operate on the trading floor.

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

We pride ourselves on:

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model.
• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development.
• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise.
• Providing a transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and building lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction.
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs.
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation.

Interested? At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds. If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately. Our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin.”