About Talan
For more than 20 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in the UK and abroad. With a presence on four continents and a headcount of 6000 consultants, our ambition is to reach the billion turnover by the end of 2024.
In the UK, Talan count 250 employees on several site, the main being: London, Edinburgh and Chester, Leeds.
We are looking for Business analyst /Project manager to join our team and work on the rates products electronic trading platform. This platform underpins the electronic rates activity including pricing, hedging and execution.
Key Responsibilities
The Business Analyst is responsible for managing the delivery of key functionalities of our electronic trading applications. The key responsibilities include:
- Writing actionable specs for their project, and ensuring all assigned developers have understood what needs to be done;
- Assisting and coordinating application development and implementation among development teams;
- Writing test plans and organizing UAT phases;
- Executing functional and non-regression testing of the end-to-end service, including automated and manual testing;
- Documenting new functionalities and training users;
- Closely interacting with business and other quantitative research and IT teams in developing new features in the electronic trading platform and also in assisting them in the investigation of issues (e.g. post-event analysis, performance and scalability, latency reduction)
- Gathering continuous intelligence on the product’s performance, customers, problems and opportunities; and initiating functional improvements to meet changing customer needs;
- Leading by example: ensuring that own behavior as analyst exhibits the team’s values of dedication, commitment and transparency at all times and under all circumstances;
- Stimulating and advocating Digital transformation throughout the entire Fixed Income organization.
- Top academic background in economics and/or engineering
- At least one substantial prior experience (3y+) as a business analyst / project manager in a large organisation
- Strong knowledge of fixed income instruments, and associated trading workflows: Government Bonds, Interest Swaps, Repos, Futures and options
- Extensive understanding of electronic trading venues, APIs and associated dataflows : market, static and trade data.
- Significant experience of working with the ION Trading platform.
- Significant prior professional experience in support, business analysis, project and/or product management, either at a financial institution or a software house
- Excellent communication skills in English, spoken and written (other languages advantageous)
- Innovative mentality
- Active interest in design of system architecture
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Any prior experience with scripting, debugging or software development is a welcome plus.
- Pragmatic approach to ensuring delivery on a timely basis. “Get it done” mentality.
Competencies
- Be organised and delivery-focused, with attentiontodetail
- Be articulate in their verbal and written communication with all types of project stakeholders: colleagues, users, management, etc
- Be accountable, ie taking full ownership of their allocated tasks
- Be comfortable operating with a strong level of autonomy
- Be pro-active in general, taking own initiatives to prevent risks/issues