Business Analyst - Middle-Office Experience

Role Overview

A Middle Office Business Analyst is required for a cross-asset trading house, supporting expansion into new asset classes and locations. Located in Liverpool Street, this role offers 3 days of office per week at an attractive salary of £105,000 per annum.

The position sits at the crossroads of trading, operations, data, and technology, working closely with Business, Front Office, Middle Office, Operations, Risk, Finance, and Technology teams. The role centres on designing, enhancing, and maintaining middle office processes, controls, reporting, and data integration across multiple asset classes: equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX, and commodities.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and integrity of trading activity via trade, position, lifecycle, and market data analysis, combining knowledge from bespoke and business platforms.
• Provide end-to-end cross-asset trade lifecycle expertise, understanding trade capture, confirmation, settlement, reconciliation, P&L, risk management, collateral optimisation, and regulatory obligations across products.
• Work directly with Business teams, collaborating with Front, Middle, and Operations teams as well as Risk, Finance, and Technology to align operational needs, process dependencies, reporting, controls, and data flows across asset classes.
• Engage with Heads of Technology for various trading divisions to ensure accurate data ingestion, transformation, normalisation, and reconciliation from front to back office.
• Support strategic change initiatives, system integration programmes, and data-driven transformation projects aimed at operational efficiency, control, and scalability.