Business Analysis Senior Associate

Job title:

Business Analysis Senior Associate

Company:

DTCC

Job description

Job Category: Clearing & Securities ServicesJob Description:Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and encouraging team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We’re committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and aim to make a real impact. We develop a growing internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a day unique to each team or employee)

The impact you will have in this role:DTCC’s Institutional Trade Processing’s (“ITP”) mission is to enable end-to-end straight-through processing of the post trade lifecycle by providing buy-side, sell-side and custodian clients with an integrated platform that reduces manual touches, decreases settlement fails and promotes settlement finality across asset classes and markets. Within ITP, the ALERT platform is the industry’s largest and most compliant online global database for the maintenance and communication of account and standing settlement instructions (SSIs). ALERT enables a community of investment managers, brokers-dealers, custodian banks and prime brokers to share accurate account and SSI automatically worldwide.The Business Analyst’s role on the ALERT team is to collaborate with other functional representatives on an Agile delivery team to build products that end-users highly value, are consistent with the architecture design, and satisfy strategic and business objectives. The Business Analyst will lead product design discovery on projects, engage with the Product Owner and user/user proxies to slice and translate requirements into valuable offerings and drive the delivery of high-quality solutions.What You’ll Do

• Actively participate with other members of the delivery team (Product Managers, Product Owner, Scrum Master, other Business Analysts, UX Designers, Development Engineers (Mid-Tier and UI) and Test Engineers) to build solutions that meet business needs in an Agile setting (i.e., scrum ceremonies, collocated team, etc.)
• Work with the Agile delivery team to decompose requirements into stories, uncover associated workflows, data and business rules as well as define acceptance criteria based on real world scenarios.
• Analyze improvement requests and defects to determine solutions that do not negatively affect other product features.
• Apply detailed knowledge of design principles and user needs to ensure that user interfaces are of high quality, very usable, perform well and are consistent across product
• Analyze requirements and conduct design walkthroughs, demos, and functionality feedback sessions with internal and external partners.
• Resolve and produce just-enough documentation for the functionality being delivered in sprints, but also compile a running specification that serves as a functional specification for the final deliverable.
• Partner with internal team members such as Integration, Documentation and Learning on operational readiness activities by sharing domain expertise on features and functions and uncovering operational requirements.
• Articulate information clearly and present information successfully and expertly when working with others.
• Help build BA standards and best approaches.
• Develop a culture of dedication, partnership, problem solving, and continuous improvement.
• Move project forward by stepping into other functional roles (testing, iteration management, etc.), when applicable.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **Sound Like You?

• 6+ years Business Analysis/Solution Design/Software Development experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience, with concentration in Computer Science, Business Administration or related concentration preferred

Additional Qualifications

• Knowledge of institutional trade processing (including Electronic Trade Confirmation, Matching, Straight Through Processing (STP)) and the trade lifecycle preferred
• Experience with Sell Side, Buy Side, and Custodian middle-office post-trade processing a plus
• Working knowledge of debt, equity, and cross-border processing requirements a plus
• Experience in Agile/scrum methodology, including defining a minimal viable product, and exposure to other software development methodologies
• Experience soliciting business requirements, writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Experience with Agile tools (ex. JIRA) and testing practices
• Proficiency in all MS Office product offerings with a focus on Visio and Excel a plus
• Experience with UI/UX development, wireframe mockup / prototype creation, and working with Axure or similar products a plus
• Experience with JSON, XML, APIs, data validation, and/or data modeling is desirable
• Knowledge of SWIFT messaging (particularly with MT54x messages) a plus
• Experience with ALERT and/or Central Trade Manager (CTM) a plus.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.About Us:With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at or connect with us on , , , and .DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.Learn more about Clearance and Settlement by .About the Team: Clearing & Securities Services group delivers world-class safety and soundness for the global financial services industry. The team provides DTCC’s portfolio of core securities business, including Institutional Trade processing and First Line Resilience and Control to facilitate better end-to-end planning and prioritization as well as enable more coordinated and seamless delivery of capabilities and services for our clients.

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Location

London

Job date

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:35:43 GMT

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