Overview

Position Title: Lead Business Analyst

Company: LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

Location: London, UK

Job Description:

The role is divided into two responsibilities, project work and assistance on daily risk management tasks. The role will be split 20/80 towards the Risk Management tasks.

Responsibilities:

  • Undertakes analytical, experimental, investigative and other fact-finding work in support of technology product development
  • Captures internal and external client technical requirements to inform technology product development. Identifies solutions and alternative paths
  • Creating and maintaining a backlog of work for the development teams Grooming the work backlog with stakeholders from Product, Operations and technology to elaborate items so they are ready fo work at the right time.
  • Identify and describe risks within the requirements. Ensure the requirements are elaborated to a point where they are both deliverable and testable with clear agreed acceptance criteria.
  • Contribute to Program Increment planning as well as the planning, execution and review of each sprint.
  • Creating user journeys and/or artefacts to illustrate understanding of the business needs
  • Obtaining but-in and approval from business stakeholders.
  • Work with delivery management representatives to understand costs, risks, resourcing and other external dependencies that influence delivery.
  • Lead a small team of Business Analysts as necessary.

Requirements:

  • Thorough understanding and in-depth knowledge of market data, security reference data (bonds & equities), pricing, industry classification, company fundamental data and ESG data.
  • Understanding of Exchange Traded Funds, index/benchmark products design and/or how indices and ETF data & analytics are used by financial institutions (Fund, Portfolio or Wealth Management).
  • Experience of working with developing index products & services in an Agile environment.
  • Strong experience in Requirements and Data Analysis, Modelling, Domain Specification/Design/Mapping, Data Transformation including Business Transformation, APIs and Data Exchange patterns
  • Good working experience with Agile and Scrum, with solid, proven experience of performing business analysis activities in a scalable Agile environment.
  • Ability to liaise with solution architects and technical leads, development and functional testing stakeholders, both in-house and from 3rd parties to ensure the business need and related requirements are well understood.
  • Strong and proven ‘soft’ skills with the ability to communicate requirements in a clear, accurate, concise, engaging and thorough manner to stakeholders across the board.
  • Understanding of the Product Development Life Cycle
  • Excellent attention to detail with the ability to think strategically to solve business problems Ability to establish credibility and build strong, confident, collaborative relationships with business and technology stakeholders including external parties, at all levels of the organization
  • Degree or equivalent preferred.

About LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified international markets infrastructure business —earning our clients’ trust for over 300 years. That legacy of customer-focused excellence ensures that you can rely on our expertise in capital formation, intellectual property and risk and balance sheet management.