Business Analyst/Project Manager - Equity IT

New York, United States

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Date live: Oct. 11, 2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90271341

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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Equity IT Business Analyst/Project Manager
New York, NY

As a Barclays Business Analyst/Project Manager you will be facing off to key project stakeholders with the Equities Trading businesses. You will be working with the development teams to ensure scope of requirements is achievable, requirements are clear and well-defined, and test plans are comprehensive. The role is with Markets Pre-Trade which is responsible for designing, building, deploying, and supporting all of the technology solutions required for the Markets front-office trading.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

What will you be doing?

• Serve as Business Analyst, Project Manager, and Subject Matter Expert; focus will include, execution workflows, order management, exchange and client connectivity, and regulatory reporting obligations.
• Full ownership and in-depth knowledge of application functionality required to train and on-board new users potentially unfamiliar with detailed workings of equity derivatives applications.
• Write detailed business and integration requirements documents using the Confluence/Wiki based documentation approach aligned with an Agile / sprint-based development methodology.
• Create detailed GUI mock-ups and other visual requirements to be presented alongside user requirements to development teams and key stakeholders.
• Work actively and closely with software development teams to ensure user requirements are clearly understood and developed as specified in the documentation.
• Participate in software development staff planning as they write detailed functional and design specifications to govern field, message, and user interface level details.
• Gather development and testing estimates and including these in formal project plans.
• Conduct comprehensive functional testing during the development process ahead of QA and UAT

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering or Finance or equivalent
• 3+ years working in with equities and equity derivatives trading applications
• 5+ years working in the Investment Banking industry
• Knowledge of Industry standards like FIX protocol and familiarity with Life Cycle Management processes like Corporate Actions

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Well versed with Microsoft Excel advanced skills (pivot/VLOOKUP/Macros)
• Familiarity with JIRA/Confluemce/BitBucket workflows
• Some familiarity with Unix/Linux
• Basic understanding of Python is a nice to have

Where will you be working?

You will be working at our Americas Headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue. This 37-story office tower is located in Times Square in the heart of Manhattan and features a cafeteria, fitness center and state-of-the-art LED signage on the facade of the building.

Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

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Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

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