Business Analyst

Job Title : Business Analyst Location: One Queen Street East, Suite 2500, Toronto, Ontario (4 days a week ) Any visa Must have skills: Trading platforms Project description • Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to: • Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders • Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment • Accelerated exposure and responsibility • Global career development opportunities • Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles • A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance • If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here's an opportunity. Responsibilities • Collect expectations and requirements of the customer • Write user stories and acceptance criteria utilizing Behavioral Driven Development • Manage best practice and ensuring these practices are used • Understands the effects of technology used within the development, and the impact on the business client • Produce quality deliverables and meet deadlines • Customer' expectations management • UI/UX designs reviewing • Specifications (user stories) creation and reviewing • Business requirements gathering through capturing of user stories, prototyping etc. • Analysis of as-is business processes, identifying gaps and areas for improvement • Design to-be business processes, perform impact & feasibility analysis of the requirements • Regular status reporting Must have Skills • Domain & Techno-Functional Skills: • Proven BA experience supporting trading platforms , with deep knowledge of OMS/EMS architecture , FIX protocol, market/client connectivity, and TCA/best execution analysis • Strong understanding of the end-to-end trade lifecycle : order creation, execution events, clearing, settlement, corporate actions, rebalancing, market rehearsals, and connectivity testing/certification • Strong command of front-office trading data domains, including data attributes, lineage, quality controls, inter-system dependencies, and interactions between trading, market, and reference data • Hands-on experience designing and implementing trading workflows across cash equities, listed & OTC derivatives, and FX • Experience with money market instruments (e.g., REPO , stock borrowing and lending ) is a plus • Deep understanding of synthetics and swap products (TRS, FX Swaps, IRS) and associated implementations, including inter-account booking and internal cross scenarios • Ability to decompose complex trade structures into executable flows spanning order capture, routing, execution, fills, allocations, ticketing, financing, internalization, and risk/house bookings Behavioral & Interpersonal Skills: • Excellent communication skills; ability to partner effectively with traders, operations, and business & technology stakeholders • Strong documentation skills — able to translate high-level business requirements into well-structured BRDs and test plans covering scope, assumptions, exclusions, business rules, and edge scenarios • Technical fluency in SQL and stored procedures; ability to read Python code is an advantage • Highly organized with strong ability to manage priorities, track dependencies, and maintain clarity across deliverables • Results-driven with a focus on timely execution and proactive resolution of blockers