Principle Business Analyst, EMEA IT, IT

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
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Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role

Position Description

The Senior Business Analyst will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between the company’s business needs and IT solutions. Working closely with stakeholders, this role will gather and analyse business requirements, define effective technical solutions, and collaborate with the technical team to ensure successful delivery of IT projects.

In addition, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing comprehensive project plans and timelines, while gaining exposure to advanced execution platforms, market microstructure, and trade lifecycle processes. These processes include workflows for market open, continuous trading, close auctions, currency handling, and quoting versus trading price conversion. Strong experience in global equities trading and equity broking, together with strong knowledge of EMEA markets, is essential.

Key Areas of Responsibilities

  • Play a crucial role in bridging the gap between our business needs and IT solutions.
  • Ensure solid alignment with key stakeholders, including business owners/users, project team, and vendors.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyse business requirements, map out processes, and work with the technical team for delivery.
  • Collaborate with front-office development teams to align on design interfaces and interrelated functionalities.
  •  Demonstrate strong presentation skills to articulate and advocate for innovative technology solutions, designs, frameworks, and architectural concepts.
  • Initiate, execute, and facilitate knowledge transfer for technology projects, ensuring smooth project kick-off and delivery.
  • Drive initiatives related to technical design and architecture, emphasizing scalability, stability, and performance.
  • Lead and coordinate efforts with Quality Assurance analysts to guarantee rigorous testing and validation.
  • Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality software solutions aligned with business needs.
  • Maintain full compliance with CLSA training programs and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related IT field.
  • Minimum 10 years of relevant professional experience as an IT Business Analyst or Solution Lead.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Proven experience in system design, including architecture definition and component integration.
  • Hands-on experience developing low-latency, high-throughput Java / C++ applications.
  • Practical experience building cash equity trading platforms - OMS, EMS, Market Connectivity.
  • Familiarity with enterprise SDLC tools like JIRA and Confluence
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, GitHub, SonarQube.
  • Excellent command of fluent in both spoken and written English.

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CLSA Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CLSA and has not been reviewed or approved by CLSA.

  • Pay Growth & Progression Base pay for junior bankers was increased significantly in 2021 to stay competitive in a hot market. This indicates willingness to adjust compensation when talent risks rise.
  • Healthcare Strength Permanent staff are automatically enrolled in healthcare aligned to local markets, with added travel health and security support via International SOS. This points to solid core medical coverage with global-travel assistance.
  • Retirement Support Permanent staff are automatically enrolled in pension plans aligned to local markets. A group retirement plan is administered regionally, signaling formalized retirement benefits infrastructure.

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The Company
HQ: Hong Kong
2,160 Employees
Year Founded: 1986

What We Do

CITIC CLSA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Securities and its overseas business platform. Established in Hong Kong in 1986, CITIC CLSA is Asia’s leading capital markets and investment group, committed to driving the growth strategies of global institutional investors, corporations, governments and high-net-worth individuals. CITIC CLSA’s award-winning research, extensive Asia network, direct links to China and highly experienced financial professionals set CITIC CLSA apart from global investment banks and regional players. Over three decades, CITIC CLSA has built an extensive Asia network with deep local knowledge and connections. Globally, we operate from 13 countries across Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. For further information, please visit clsa.com

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