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Description
A major financial market infrastructure organisation is looking for an experienced IT Business Analyst to join its Asset Servicing technology function. The role sits between the business, technology and architecture teams, translating complex asset servicing requirements into practical end-to-end solutions. It offers a genuine development path towards Solution Architecture within a multi-year modernisation programme. The position is UK-based and hybrid in London with occasional travel to European offices.
Responsibilities
Understand and challenge existing asset servicing and corporate actions processes
Translate business requirements into clear functional and technical requirements
Support process redesign and the adoption of packaged asset servicing capabilities
Help shape end-to-end solution designs, including interactions with settlement, cash and payment services
Map data flows, interfaces, dependencies and integration requirements
Contribute to high-level design discussions around APIs, messaging and event-driven architecture
Identify functional and non-functional requirements including resilience, performance and availability
Work with architects and engineers to evaluate solution options, risks and dependencies
Support workshops, backlog refinement and wider programme planning
Present requirements and solution options clearly to technical and senior business stakeholders
Requirements
Strong knowledge of securities post-trade, asset servicing or corporate actions
Understanding of corporate actions lifecycles, settlement and associated cash movements
Experience within a CSD, financial market infrastructure, custodian, investment bank or other complex securities environment
Experience working across both business and technology teams
Strong requirements gathering, process modelling and functional design skills
Exposure to large-scale technology change or modernisation programmes
Understanding of integration concepts including APIs, messaging and event-driven systems
Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills
Ability to work effectively across geographically distributed teams
Confidence operating where requirements may initially be incomplete or ambiguous
Current or prior role as IT Business Analyst, Senior/Lead Business Analyst, or a technical background with functional and solution-design experience
Conditions
Hybrid work in London with occasional travel to European offices
UK-based position
Multi-year modernisation programme across a complex, business-critical technology estate