Senior business analyst

WHO WE ARE Genesis transforms application development in financial markets by offering a low-code platform that supercharges developers and enables organizations to build performant, secure applications with unmatched speed, efficiency, and scale. We have the vigor and passion of a startup and the skill and experience of a scale-up, consistently refining and exploring ways to make work better for everyone. To help us achieve our vision of reinventing the way financial market organizations build software, we are looking for people who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo - people who are passionate about change. If you are a self-starter with a solution-orientated mindset, you’ll find a home at Genesis. WHAT YOU NEED & THE HATS YOU WILL WEAR We are looking for a Sr Business AnalystThe role will suit a technical minded individual who loves to solve problems and has great communication skills. You will have to speak to customer IT teams and business users, alongside our internal Dev and product teams. Our analysts must also be keen to understand the wider business flows and systems at the customer site to provide a first-class support experience. How you’ll play your partInterfacing with clients to gather solution requirements (typically working on multiple assignments in parallel).Understanding the current and proposed business process that the solution is intended to solve for.Understanding the wider business flows and systems at the customer site that provide the context into which a new solution will be introduced.Analysing / understanding client data (because the data often conveys context & requirements that can otherwise be missed).Distilling the understanding of client context / requirements into short documents and diagrams to communicate those internally and back to the client.Understanding where new solutions overlap with and can re-use elements from existing solutions.Working with the technical architect & product development team to help them understand business requirements and input to the solution detailed design.Present back to the customer both their requirements and the features of the new solution to solve them.Performing a degree of QA for new product feature releases in preparation for delivering to the clients and / or providing inputs / reviews to a dedicated test team on larger projects.Contribute to departmental and company-wide process improvement.Provide input to marketing campaigns and material.Support sales in customer discussions, respond to RFPs and create proposals. The experience you’ll bringBE / BSc (or higher) or equivalent work experience.Proven industry experience as a Business Analyst for 5- 10 years in building capital markets solutions that process financial instruments.Proven industry experiences following Agile Software Development practices.Proven industry experience of working with business stakeholders and external clients.A good understanding of practices related to financial applications.Knowledge of the typical flows and functionality associated with handling business flows in one or more asset types; equities, fixed income, FX, listed future and option, OTC derivatives.The ability to translate business concepts into system requirements.The ability to constructively participate and critique in technical and functional discussions with talented technical architects and lead developers.Understand the technical make up of Genesis products in such a way they can be explained to non-technical users.Ability to perform gap analysis.