Business Analyst (Sheffield)

In this role, you will:

• Support the product owner in the management of their work stream Backlog and the prioritization of stories and subtasks.
• Groom the stories in the backlog to ensure that they are prepared to meet the ‘definition of ready.’
• Contribute to the project RAID by raising items when necessary.
• Update the Engagement Lead and Project Management with progress vs delivery milestones.
• Facilitate the following Agile Forums and project meetings Pod Backlog refinement Pod Sprint Planning/show and tell/ retrospective Pod Scrum

Qualifications –

• Minimum of 6+ years’ experience as an Business Analyst
• Understanding of Investment Banking products in at least one asset class; Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives or FX
• Understanding of the Trade Lifecycle and Capital market
• Requirements elicitation, functional design, and problem-solving skills – structured, formal approach to analysis tasks
• Ability to convey requirements to developers in a way that’s clearly understood by them.
• Expertise in Agile engineering practices (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, LEAN)
• Should have worked on JIRA, Confluence for requirement management.
• Accountability for delivery – takes ownership of tasks assigned to ultimate resolution with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (comfortable in written and verbal communications) to facilitate with users from around the world and from different cultural backgrounds), relationship management and flexible interpersonal skills.
• Fluent communication, excellent articulation, and presentation skills
• Experience working in Investment Banking – Exposure to Debt markets / Equities / FX with understanding of trade life cycle.
• Good knowledge of SQL and RDBMS databases
• Experience facing off business stakeholders – trading desks, middle office and sales for requirement gathering query resolutions etc.