Senior Business Analyst - London - Fintech - Salary range: Up to 130K depending on experience

We Are:

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Manila and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our team and work on an exciting and challenging project to substantially overhaul an existing exchange, using a mix of Adaptive’s proprietary products and some bespoke code.

You Are:

• A strategic thinker with great communication skills 
• A strong relationship builder with your team and clients
• A troubleshooter and a team player
• Curious with respect to new business processes and technical solutions
• Experienced with Agile processes especially as it relates to backlog building and maintenance

You Have:

• Significant experience working in the financial sector, with experience working on Real Time trading systems being especially valuable
• Specific experience in margin trading would be highly preferential 
• Front office stakeholder relationship management experience;
• Experience delivering in an agile environment;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Some experience with QA/Business Acceptance Testing;
• Some experience working with UX designers;
• Some knowledge of Margin and Leveraged products in the financial markets

YOU WILL MANAGE THE PROJECT BACKLOG: 

• Rapidly boot up from scratch a working backlog to help stakeholders in making their vision for the product materialize, especially in the early stages of each delivery phase
• Convey the project vision to the team and define clear milestones for alignment purposes, and so they can make holistic design decisions that will support the delivery
• Maintain the backlog of deliverable stories for the team
• Be the stakeholders’ proxy in the team, and where appropriate, you are able to make quick, firm decisions when it comes to scope, requirements and prioritization/triage
• Involve team members when their perspective can bring value, including times when it can support scope and priority decisions - especially to quantify bang for buck
• Follow up during the implementation and testing phases to ensure delivery satisfies the requirements
• Drive the backlog review and estimation process and take part in planning activities
• Capture non-functional requirements and keep supportability in mind
• Define acceptance criteria and tests up front as part of a Business-Driven Development approach
• Use your personal experience with Agile delivery to take advantage of its strengths and mitigate its potential risks
• As a value-add, you should get involved in measuring project progress, using technical links to Jira or Azure as required
• Work closely and complementarily with the Delivery Lead on the project;
• Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team (including but not limited to: real-time programming, high availability, TDD, BDD, UX design, DevOps concerns…)
• Work with distributed teams

Why Us:

• To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive 😁) You can learn from anyone here, which is  the beauty of it
• To take part in the growth and development of a great company
• Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.
• Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
• Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). The balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us.
• We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes.
• WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US 🗣
• You can check our Glassdoor page 🎉
• BENEFITS  (What we offer in return // what you’ll get )
• We create benefits with YOU in mind.
• 25 days holiday
• Pension scheme
• Family medical and dental
• Life insurance and Long term disability cover
• Cycle scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Gym subsidy
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders

The Process

• Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us 😉
• We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.
• So here you will have three stage interviews:

1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.
2- A zoom chat with one of BA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience
3- A Face to Face interview (via Zoom).

But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter. 

Here is a little tip for you during those stages: 

Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc 😊 

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: 💜

Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity. 

All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles

Background check: the employment/engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive