Business Analyst-Credit e-Trading

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

11-50 employees

AI analytics for institutional fixed income markets

Company Overview

Overbond stands out as a leading AI quantitative analytics provider in the institutional fixed income capital markets, offering a robust suite of AI algorithms for bond pricing, trade workflow automation, pre-trade signals, and market surveillance. The company's culture fosters continuous learning, with opportunities to stay updated on AI trading news through their monthly newsletter. Their competitive advantage lies in their data aggregation solutions, which provide comprehensive and accurate market insights, positioning them as industry leaders in their field.

AI & Machine Learning

Data & Analytics

Financial Services

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$7.5M

Founded

2015

Headquarters

Toronto, Canada

Growth & Insights

Headcount

6 month growth

↓ -34%

1 year growth

↓ -16%

2 year growth

↓ -25%

Locations

Toronto, ON, Canada

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

Agile

Data Analysis

Data Science

JIRA

Communications

CategoriesNew

Product

Quantitative Finance

Requirements

Minimum Minimum of bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Finance, Engineering, Data Science or Business Administration
Minimum 4 years' experience in Business Analyst role
Ability to juggle multiple priorities and effectively deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
A willingness to help and share knowledge with other team members
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to communicate the logic, reason, and priority of each project/ product development
Familiarity with AI Analytics, real time streaming data and trading analytics, capital markets applications
Naturally curious with a strong determination to work around obstacles and attention to detail
Strategic thinking and an ability to effectively identify opportunities for growth in new businesses and markets
Familiarity with Overbond product suite: Bond Trading Automation, Liquidity Scoring, Bond real-time pricing, Fixed Income ETF basket pricing, Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA), Margin Optimization
Familiarity with fixed income corporate bond trading industry

Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into detailed functional and non-functional requirements
Develop and maintain project documentation, including requirements, use cases, process flows, & test cases
Create product roadmap, create JIRA Epics, assign team resources, develop storyboards and user-stories, develop product requirements, assess project dependencies, and overall delivery timelines in weekly sprints
Create and maintain project schedules and project objectives
Identify and resolve issues and risks
Report on project progress & offer viable solutions and opportunities as they arise
Implement change practices
Manage resources to make sure schedule is on track
Act as project portfolio management
Lead meetings and set expectations for the project team
Conduct gap analyses to identify areas of improvement in existing processes and systems
Manage the Agile process using Jira, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint retrospectives, and release planning
Work closely with the development team to ensure that requirements are properly implemented and delivered on time
Track and report project progress, including issues and risks, and provide regular updates to stakeholders
Intake requirements from clients in pre and post sale phases of client relationships
Conduct and be responsible for client back-tests and live tests where best product functionality is being showcased
Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to fixed income and Agile development methodologies

About Us

Overbond is a developer of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven real-time data streams for bond trading automation. Overbond offers the most advanced bond trading data streams and execution management system (EMS) in the market. The Overbond data streams and analytics can be integrated into the systems and workflow of any and every fixed income trading desk in the world. Overbond helps fixed income trading desks overcome the lack of a complete and centralized pricing and transaction data source for the bond markets, execute more client trades, increase the profitably of the trades that are executed, conduct pre-trade and post-trade analyses, monitor prices and risk and prepare reports. The company serves trading desks in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Overbond is headquartered in Toronto and operates a lab in Montreal that engages academics and post-graduate researchers to conduct advanced research and development in quantitative finance and AI modelling.

The Opportunity

This exciting role is available as part of the Overbond team expansion. The position is a unique opportunity to support the company’s vision in developing and delivering projects on several strategic initiatives by impacting tactical decision-making across all functional areas. Key responsibilities will be helping to establish the direction, coordination, implementation and tracking/reporting of multiple key projects delivery, while remaining aligned with strategy, commitments and goals of the organization. The ideal candidate combines outstanding project management acumen, process development and communication skills. You will use internal and external resources to plan and create project plans to make recommendations and help drive business decisions. You will plan product roadmap, JIRA Epic, team resources, story board, User-stories, requirements, dependencies, and overall delivery timelines in weekly sprints. You will collaborate and influence senior leadership and a variety of other stakeholders and will have a passion for analytics and process development. You will collaborate with our Product, Technology, Marketing, and Sales teams to ensure that our customers are successful and enthusiastically using our AI analytics stemming from R&D Labs while identifying opportunities or pain points along the way. This is a fantastic opportunity to take initiative and produce tangible results!

What You’ll Do

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into detailed functional and non-functional requirements
Develop and maintain project documentation, including requirements, use cases, process flows, & test cases
Create product roadmap, create JIRA Epics, assign team resources, develop storyboards and user-stories, develop product requirements, assess project dependencies, and overall delivery timelines in weekly sprints
Create and maintain project schedules and project objectives
Identify and resolve issues and risks
Report on project progress & offer viable solutions and opportunities as they arise
Implement change practices
Manage resources to make sure schedule is on track
Act as project portfolio management
Lead meetings and set expectations for the project team
Conduct gap analyses to identify areas of improvement in existing processes and systems
Manage the Agile process using Jira, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint retrospectives, and release planning
Work closely with the development team to ensure that requirements are properly implemented and delivered on time
Track and report project progress, including issues and risks, and provide regular updates to stakeholders
Intake requirements from clients in pre and post sale phases of client relationships
Conduct and be responsible for client back-tests and live tests where best product functionality is being showcased
Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to fixed income and Agile development methodologies

What You’ll Need

Minimum Minimum of bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Finance, Engineering, Data Science or Business Administration
Minimum 4 years’ experience in Business Analyst role
Ability to juggle multiple priorities and effectively deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
A willingness to help and share knowledge with other team members
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to communicate the logic, reason, and priority of each project/ product development
Familiarity with AI Analytics, real time streaming data and trading analytics, capital markets applications
Naturally curious with a strong determination to work around obstacles and attention to detail
Strategic thinking and an ability to effectively identify opportunities for growth in new businesses and markets
Familiarity with Overbond product suite: Bond Trading Automation, Liquidity Scoring, Bond real-time pricing, Fixed Income ETF basket pricing, Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA), Margin Optimization
Familiarity with fixed income corporate bond trading industry

What We Offer

Opportunity to work on a real product with very demanding paying enterprise clients
Learning and self-development opportunities through online courses and knowledge sharing lecture sessions.
Extended health coverage (Dental, Vision, Drug plan and other medical services)
Life Insurance and AD&D coverage
Health & Wellness program
Monthly team lunches and social events

Successful candidate(s) will have a truly exciting opportunity to be part of the industry leading fintech company changing the way how global investment banks, institutional investors, corporations and governments access capital markets. The candidate will work with top notch industry professionals and will be given ample amount of opportunities to learn and grow.

Overbond is committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We welcome applications from: women, aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, visible minorities, people who identify as LGBT and others who may contribute to diversification in our workplace.

As part of our commitment to accessibility for all persons with disabilities, Overbond will, upon the request of the applicant, provide accommodation during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities.