Lead Business Analyst - Orchestrade
Project description
Luxoft has one of the world's leading Orchestrade practices. We are a top-tier Orchestrade Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration. We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered Orchestrade projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, commodities. Whether you possess a background in finance, technology, or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry or commodities industry would be of high interest to us. The project is a Trading and Position platform Implementation for Commodity products. You will be part of a Top Initiative for this commodity client. This is a brilliant opportunity to work on several type of commodity products and learn a new trading platform. You will have the ability to showcase the work directly to the End users. The team is responsible for the integration of a trading application (Orchestrade) used for: • Pre-deal origination workflow and post execution monitoring and life-cycle management. • Dedicated workflow, configuration of the platform, supporting business • Integration with Operations, Finance • Reporting, Reconciliation • Accounting The application is Orchestrade: - Orchestrade is in .Net (C#): Natively connected to Excel - Database: Microsoft SQL - Delivered In-House or Hosted (Amazon Web Services) Also, you will join our Orchestrade Practice and become a member of our open minded, progressive and professional team. You will have a chance to grow your functional and soft skills and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client. Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career.
Responsibilities
- Analyse current front to back processes (trading, risk, PnL, middle/back office) and document workflows, pain points, and control gaps.
- Gather, structure, and prioritise business requirements from PMs, risk managers, operations, and compliance for new tools, reports, and system changes.
- Translate requirements into clear functional specifications and work with developers/quant teams on design and implementation options.
- Support testing (test cases, UAT, regression) and coordinate production releases for trading and risk platforms or internal tools.
- Produce business and technical documentation (BRDs, user stories, process maps, runbooks) and keep them up to date.
- Use data analysis to validate requirements, size issues, and monitor the impact of changes (e.g., trade flow metrics, latency, error rates).
- Run workshops and interviews with stakeholders to clarify needs, uncover edge cases, and close open questions.
- Create and refine product backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria; help prioritise work against business value and risk.
- Perform impact analysis for changes (systems, data models, interfaces), including upstream/downstream dependencies.
- Coordinate with legal, risk, ops, and external vendors when projects touch regulations, controls, or third party systems.
SKILLS
Must have
- 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst working on Financial products with strong understanding of listed and OTC products (equities, futures, options, fixed income, FX), order lifecycle, and risk/PnL concepts.
- Orchestrade hands-on experience is mandatory
- Experience in FO on Treasury
- Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner to ensure the requirements from the business are gathered in the appropriate manner.
- Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills
- Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources
- Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment
- Experience in writing user stories and working with JIRA /similar tools.
Nice to have
• Hedge Fund previous experience is highly preferable • Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment • Have a willingness to learn new skills • Attention to detail; ability to work independently and also as part of a group • Technical knowledge (SQL, .NET)
