Senior Business Analyst (Capital Markets)

Iris's client, one of the world's largest multinational investment banking and financial services corporation is looking to hire a Senior Business Analyst. Our direct client is a is a world-leading financial services company, provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial services and products.

Title: Senior Business Analyst
Location: Toronto, ON- Hybrid

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for generating requirements from the front office and Risk management that will include complex business and financial solutions. Frequent interaction with developers, project managers, front office, quants, and functions.
• Participate in design and analysis, including understanding deliveries encompassing pricing, risk, trade flow.
• Understand and document current and future state architecture and functional processes across the Equity derivatives business technology framework.
• Major contributor in design and analysis of the trading platform, including understanding deliveries encompassing pricing, risk, trade flow.
• Working closely with FO, Quant, MR, various support teams and other IT teams on a daily basis
• Carry out analysis of regression & QA results and formally documenting the analysis/providing commentary to business users
• Work closely with QA and DEV team for root cause analysis for system upgrade GUI/batch test issues and breaks

Must have:

• 8+ Years Business analyst experience, including data analysis experience, such as assessing the data, performing data mining & mapping, defining data lineage & transformation rules.
• Detailed financial knowledge within areas previously supported, in Equity products both cash and derivatives (Options, Futures, Swaps, Exotics, etc.), ideally with experience in other asset classes as well (Fixed income, commodities, multi-asset), including pricing, risk and P&L.
• A good understanding of P&L analysis, attribution, risks, Greeks, and VaR
• Comfortable with SQL
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with 3rd party applications a plus (Sophis, Murex, Calypso, etc).
• Experience with various regulatory risk reporting, (FRTB, Volcker, etc..)
• General knowledge of front-to-back trade lifecycle: risk frameworks, market data, funding, collateral management, trade execution venues, etc.
• Good understanding of QA processes and Procedures
• Experience with Python or other programming languages

About Iris Software Inc.
Iris Software, Inc. (registered as SSA Infosystems in Canada) is a CMMi Level 5 New Jersey based company providing information technology solutions to clients nationwide for over 30 years. Iris has been growing at over 100% annually. In a program sponsored by Price Waterhouse, PNC Bank and Marsh, Iris has been honored for being
- One of New Jersey's Finest 25 companies for the year 2001 and 2002.
- Iris is also ranked 75th among Inc 500 s list of privately held companies for year 2001.
- NJ Technology FAST 50 Company for year 2002.
In a competitive industry, we distinguish ourselves by reliability, technical expertise and a history of successfully completed projects for clients ranging from mid-sized to Fortune 1000 companies.