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Business Analyst
Senior Business Analyst (12-Month Fixed-Term Contract)
CMC Markets is hiring for a Senior Business Analyst to join our team on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
About the Role
As the Senior Business Analyst, you will leverage your strong business analysis and technical expertise to:
- Collaborate with business and technical teams to define requirements for strategic product and trading changes.
- Ensure detailed analysis and documentation of requirements, producing a pipeline of new user stories for development teams.
- Play a key role in managing the development lifecycle, including:
- Tracking story status and maintaining project/iteration plans.
- Providing clear visibility on project status through reporting and communication.
- Conducting testing to confirm if completed features meet original requirements.
- Occasionally assist support and customer-facing teams by investigating and resolving live issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic business analysis for product and trading programs.
- Develop and maintain requirements for new trading workflows, product changes, and refinements.
- Oversee the Agile development process, ensuring alignment between business needs and technical implementation.
- Agile testing and validation of delivered features.
- Stakeholder liaison and cross-team coordination.
- Kubernetes, particularly with services; experience with financial markets and trading infrastructure.
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Key Skills & Experience
Essential
- Financial sector experience is essential (e.g., equities, futures, Forex, fixed income, crypto).
- Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Business Analyst embedded in a technology team.
- Agile development methodologies experience desirable.
Desirable
- Insight into trading workflows, including execution and settlement processes.
- Familiarity with spread betting/CFD trading.
- Prior exposure working on finance trading platforms.
- Technical/financial platforms Kubernetes understanding beneficial.
Technical Skills
A preference for proficiency in:
- Confluence (requirements documentation)
- Jira (agile project management)
- Miro (collaboration)
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- Technical Kubernetes (as environment deployment matters).
Requirements
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Ownership mindset—engage with tasks large and small.
- Financial theory exposure; such as risk management in trading.
About CMC Markets
CMC Markets is one of the world’s pioneers of fintech, launched in 1989. Our mission is to open trading to everyone via award-winning technology, delivering on demand customisable leadership in global markets:
- Next-Gen trading platform for trading thousands of instruments on competitive rates.
- Empowers corporations and private investors globally (including banks, funds, trading desks, and institutions).
- A FTSE 250listed company committed to technology investment and people support, continuing growth at scale.
CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups to drive innovation and inclusivity.
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