Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to join Susquehanna to work alongside core business teams, traders,  technology managers, developers and domain experts to drive and deliver strategic and high-value initiatives across the full trading lifecycle. 

You will define business requirements for complex business problems and new trading initiatives, impacting Trading systems development across front and middle office environments.  You will be responsible for evaluating appropriate methodologies (or aspects of methodologies) that best apply to these projects to ensure that they are deployed and implemented according to the needs of the business teams.   

You will create and manage project plans and schedules, coordinate activities of related teams, identify potential issues, provide status reporting/updates and facilitate these projects and initiatives through to completion. 

The ideal candidate will have detailed experience in delivering complex technology solutions within one or more of front office, middle and back-office functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional, global planning with Legal, Trading, Operations, Technology, Compliance and Risk teams and Interact with external counterparties (e.g. trading exchanges, brokers and counterparties) as required.
• Define project scope and solution; Translating requirements into actionable project roadmaps and key deliverables. working closely with stakeholders to ensure transparency and buy-in across the business areas.
• Provide regular concise and informative communication to stakeholders inclusive of project status reports and dashboards, meeting minutes and executive reports and presentations.
• Take end users and senior business project sponsors through the process of defining business requirements for software developments.
• Take ownership of the translation of business requirements into functional specifications.
• Coordinate teams to facilitate the execution of deliverables, guiding their activities to ensure project objectives are met.
• Drive prioritisation and resource alignment to ensure timely execution of high-impact initiatives
• Successfully manage the relationship between all stakeholders and third parties.
• Take a lead role in working with developers and testers to ensure requirements are fulfilled.
• Working with end users during user review and UAT.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risk; Documenting and track any open issues for stakeholders and project teams.

What we’re looking for

Key Skills

• A self-starter with initiative to independently drive projects to successful delivery.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly report project status to stakeholders at all levels.
• A strong collaborator who can work across business and technical teams to understand, implement, and guide project requirements.
• A strategic thinker who can evaluate project needs and select the right tools, methodologies, and approaches.
• A persistent, detail-oriented, and delivery-focused mindset.
• A curious mindset with the ability to analyse, diagram, and explain complex systems, processes, and data flows
• Flexibility to manage multiple projects with varying timelines and the ability to pivot quickly when priorities shift
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment and familiar with agile methodologies

Experience

• A minimum of 6 years project management and business analyst experience within Financial Services industry.
• A thorough understanding of operational trade flows (i.e., trade economics, trading platforms, venues and exchanges, operational, legal, compliance and regulatory considerations etc.) across at least 2 or more of Exchange traded Equities, ETFs, Options or Futures products.
• Proven project management and analyst experience delivering key business and technology initiatives within a trading environment, with a demonstrated record of systems delivery participating in all aspects of requirements, design, QA, Support and UAT and production go-live.
• Strong leadership, planning, estimation, and risk management skills with the ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication (both oral and written) and organizational skills.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies, SQL and relational databases.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Word and Excel; experience utilizing applications such as Visio and Microsoft Project.

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