Business Analyst – Fixed Income
Quant Capital is urgently looking for an Electronic Trading Business Analyst to join our high profile client.
The Business Analyst Role has come around due to an expansion and strategic change and the Business Analyst will report in to the two owners of the business. The Business Analyst Will:
– Lead key stake-holders
– Actively gather requirements, either in one-to-one sessions or in workshops.
– Interaction with Exchanges/Trading Venues to gather market model or message detail.
– Definition and prioritisation of the solutions
– Design, definition and proposal of messaging protocol formats
– Validation of requirements through development and QA interaction
Our client provides independent expert advice, implementation and remediation for front office electronic trading environments. Their clients include leading investment banks, asset managers and hedge funds. They use well-established and bespoke methodologies to deliver solutions ranging from trading platform reviews to ultra-low latency design and development of front office trading systems. Their engagements span front office engagements within Fixed Income, Equities and FX.
Business Analysts Must Have:
* 4-8 years’ experience working within the buy-side, sell-side, relevant vendor or ECN.
* Experience in one or more of the following across the trading lifecycle: Risk management, Price formation, tiering and distribution, execution, STP
* Relevant market experience– Interdealer broker / Dealer – client / Single dealer platform
* FX Relevant asset classes – Spot/Forward/NDFs/Swaps/Options and/or
* FI Relevant asset classes – Cash bonds/derivatives/rates and credit/Interest rate swaps
My client has a family feel and traditional values but is known as by far the best low latency consultancy in the world. They have recently implemented a FIX standard for Fixed Income Trading. They have been trading for 8 years and have around 40 people in the office so personality fit is important. They are a privately owned debt and VC free entity so equity is a serious option.
My client is based in London
Business Analyst, Electronic trading consultant – FIX, Index, Benchmark, Latency, Infrastructure