Business Analyst Trade Lifecycle

Overview

As an Electronic Trading Business Analyst, you will lead stakeholder interactions and gather requirements to shape front-office trading solutions. You will map market models with exchanges, prioritise initiatives, and design messaging protocols to support low-latency electronic trading. Working across Risk, Price formation, and execution domains, you’ll validate requirements through development and QA, helping clients optimize trading platforms. This role combines consulting rigor with a deep understanding of FIX and latency-sensitive environments, in a London-based setting.

Pay / Benefits

• equity option
• private ownership
• London-based role
• family-friendly culture
• VC-free entity
• opportunity to shape core trading platforms

Responsibilities

• Lead key stakeholders and capture requirements through sessions and workshops
• Engage with Exchanges/Trading Venues to understand market models and message details
• Define and prioritise solutions for front-office electronic trading
• Design and propose messaging protocol formats for trading systems
• Validate requirements via development work and QA collaboration

Key requirements

• 4-8 years of experience in buy-side, sell-side, vendor, or ECN roles
• Experience across trading lifecycle components: risk management, price formation, tiering/distribution, execution, STP
• Relevant market experience with Interdealer broker/Dealer client or single-dealer platform
• FX asset classes: Spot/Forward/NDFs/Swaps/Options and/or related FI asset classes like cash bonds/derivatives/rates and credit/IRS

• stakeholder leadership
• clear communication
• collaborative mindset
• FIX protocol
• messaging protocol design
• front-office electronic trading

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