Business Analyst - Market Data, Derivative Products

FP Inc.

Toronto, ON, Canada
Contract
Hybrid
C$80 - C$100

Typical Day in Role:

  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across Front Office, Middle Office, Product Control, and Financial Engineering teams.
  • Work closely with stakeholders across Canada, particularly Product Control teams.
  • Gather, analyze, and document business requirements; translate them into clear specifications for development teams.
  • Develop detailed documentation, including business requirements, workflows, and process diagrams.
  • Perform gap analysis between current and target states and propose scalable solutions aligned with business and regulatory needs.
  • Leverage domain expertise in equity and fixed income products to support project success.
  • Operate within an Agile environment, participating in ceremonies such as sprint planning and stand-ups.
  • Support production issue analysis and resolution.
  • Utilize RiskWatch as the pricing engine.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

  1. 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, including experience with documentation, ability to create workflow diagrams, business requirements
  2. 5+ years’ experience in capturing business requirements for building a Derivate Products Trading Application covering Trade Capture, Integration with Pricing Models.
  3. 5+ years’ experience with market data used to price derivative instruments
  4. 5+ years’ experience with Trade Life Cycle for derivative products events such as Amend, Unwind, Rate Reset or Fixing Process and Realized Cashflows.
  5. 2+ years’ experience with risk watch pricing engine.

Familiar with end-to-end trade workflows among the Front, Middle and Back Offices systems.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

  1. Advanced Knowledge of derivative financial instruments related to Equity Options, Interest Rate Swap, Cap/Floor, Inflation asset swaps
  2. Unix Scripting
  3. Python Scripting
  4. Pl/SQL
  5. Automated testing experience

Soft Skills Required:

• Able to document and clearly communicate with stakeholders

• Team player

Education:

Bachelor's degree

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