Senior Business Analyst

About the Role

This Senior Business Analyst position, based in Abu Dhabi, focuses on analyzing and gathering business requirements across multiple internal stakeholders within the company. Responsibilities include conducting a gap analysis of the existing legacy back-office solution deployed across diverse business lines such as Retail Brokerage, Institutional Brokerage, Market Making/Liquidity Providing, and Asset Management. The role aligns system enhancements and business processes with the organization's future strategy, products, and roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

• Collect and assess detailed requirements and functionalities of the current back-office system utilized by various business segments.
• Perform a thorough system gap analysis to highlight discrepancies between the existing back-office implementation and the company's strategic future plans and product roadmap.
• Propose enhancements to current and upcoming features, system functionalities, architecture, hardware, and process automation related to the back-office system.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), covering system features, workflows, configurations, and upgrades consistent with future business needs.
• Review the data architecture of the back-office system and recommend improvements adhering to Data Governance policies and best practices.
• Coordinate with business units, IT teams, and vendors to define system specifications through detailed analyses, supporting back-office system developments.
• Keep abreast of the latest industry developments in brokerage back-office systems, including trends in automation, data reconciliation, regulatory compliance, and system integration to enhance operational efficiency.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, or related fields.
• At least eight years of professional experience within the financial services sector focusing on brokerage back-office systems, investment banking, capital markets, or brokerage software development environments as a Business Analyst or Systems Analyst.

Technical Skills and Competencies

• Proven expertise in gathering business and functional requirements and developing and supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) cases for Front-office, Middle-Office, and Back-office systems, including managing Epics and Stories for system rollouts.
• Substantial experience within back-office operations supporting electronic trading systems in brokerage, trading, or investment banking.
• Preference for candidates with experience in brokerage firms or software houses specializing in back-office trading system development.
• Familiarity with project and issue tracking tools such as JIRA (Epics, Stories), SharePoint, SQL querying, and business process modeling tools like Bizagi and MS Visio.
• Robust data analysis skills supported by strong analytical, communicative, and interpersonal capabilities.

Behavioral Traits

• Integrity and strong ethical standards.
• Ability to work effectively within teams.
• Self-driven with a proactive approach and high initiative.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and flexibility.
• Strong investigative mindset coupled with troubleshooting aptitude.
• Basic understanding of software implementation, system design principles, and user experience (UX) considerations.