Business Analyst - Equities Off-Exchange Trading

Job Description

As part of the EU Equities Technology team, an opportunity exists for a technically minded individual with proven Equities experience to join our front office technology team.

The successful candidate will be involved in numerous business-prioritised initiatives, often working across different implementation teams to deliver client-driven requirements and strategic projects for Equities and Technology management

The successful candidate is highly likely to have worked as a Business Analyst in an Equity Technology division for a meaningful part of their career to date, and will have experienced multiple business areas within Equities.

Daily interaction with the trading, middle office, and other support teams will be required as well as technology colleagues within and around Equities Technology. A clear, accurate, and thoughtful communication style as well as mindset is necessary.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks:

• Partner with various trading desks, technology colleagues and support functions to understand, clarify and document accurate and concise business requirements.
• Quickly understand key risks and constraints impacting new requirements and take steps to address these
• Be the point of contact for technical teams and business alike – refining and adapting as required
• Gain a deep understanding of the Jefferies’ specific flows and processes – and be able to explain these to multiple stakeholders at all levels of seniority
• Tracking issues and concerns, and regular reporting to senior management
• Liaising with test teams to conduct effective system and UAT testing, on occasions getting involved in the testing to expedite the most critical initiatives.
  
  

Qualifications/ Experience:

• Knowledge and experience in Off-exchange Equity-related products: Stock Loan/Stock Lending, Equity Swaps, Convertible Bonds as well as over the counter derivatives.
• An understanding of market structures, venues and the differences between venues
• Familiarity with the allocation process, different methods, tools, requirements and the pitfalls
• Awareness of the regulatory constraints under which we operate – e.g. MiFID II, Brexit, Surveillance etc…
• Experience with FIX protocol and message types
• Basic database query (SQL) experience
• Experience with Excel VBA/Bloomberg API an advantage
  
  

Additional Skills:

• Excellent communication skills – this is a front office and client facing role.
• Must be able to perform well under pressure and deliver to tight deadlines
• Able to take different communication styles and elicit the key requirements into business and technical requirement documents.
• Proven experience working on several initiatives simultaneously
• A natural problem solver with good diagnostics skills
• A committed team player, experience working with remote teams an advantage.
• Strong desire to learn and apply learnt knowledge / skills
• Service-oriented
• Familiarity with software PM tools such as JIRA
  
  

About Us

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.