Sr Business Systems Analyst - Capital Markets

Sr Business Systems Analyst - Capital Markets

This is with a global IT services firm for a leading investment/wealth management services firm.
Client Location is downtown Toronto Ontario, close to TTC and GO service.
Hybrid - In Office 4 days per week.
Contract - 6 months, possible renewal
Target rate range: $75-90hr on B2B

Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and currently has offices in Toronto, London, Hong Kong, New York, South America and Asia.

Responsibilities
Collect expectations and requirements of the customer
Write user stories and acceptance criteria utilizing Behavioral Driven Development
Manage best practice and ensuring these practices are used
Understands the effects of technology used within the development, and the impact on the business client
Produce quality deliverables and meet deadlines
Customer' expectations management
UI/UX designs reviewing
Specifications (user stories) creation and reviewing
Business requirements gathering through capturing of user stories, prototyping etc.
Analysis of as-is business processes, identifying gaps and areas for improvement
Design to-be business processes, perform impact & feasibility analysis of the requirements
Regular status reporting
Experience working within Capital Market OR Investment Mgnt domain

Skills
Must have
Ability to work out of Toronto office 4 days/week (Mon to Thurs)

Domain & Techno-Functional Skills:
Proven BA experience supporting trading platforms, with deep knowledge of OMS/EMS architecture, FIX protocol, market/client connectivity, and TCA/best execution analysis
Strong understanding of the end-to-end trade lifecycle: order creation, execution events, clearing, settlement, corporate actions, rebalancing, market rehearsals, and connectivity testing/certification
Strong command of front-office trading data domains, including data attributes, lineage, quality controls, inter-system dependencies, and interactions between trading, market, and reference data
Hands-on experience designing and implementing trading workflows across cash equities, listed & OTC derivatives, and FX
Experience with money market instruments (e.g., REPO, stock borrowing and lending) is a plus
Deep understanding of synthetics and swap products (TRS, FX Swaps, IRS) and associated implementations, including inter-account booking and internal cross scenarios
Ability to decompose complex trade structures into executable flows spanning order capture, routing, execution, fills, allocations, ticketing, financing, internalization, and risk/house bookings

Behavioral & Interpersonal Skills:
Excellent communication skills; ability to partner effectively with traders, operations, and business & technology stakeholders
Strong documentation skills — able to translate high-level business requirements into well-structured BRDs and test plans covering scope, assumptions, exclusions, business rules, and edge scenarios
Technical fluency in SQL and stored procedures; ability to read Python code is an advantage
Highly organized with strong ability to manage priorities, track dependencies, and maintain clarity across deliverables
Results-driven with a focus on timely execution and proactive resolution of blockers

Nice to have
Certified scrum master certification is a plus

NOTE: Same client is also hiring a Sr. C++ Developer (Capital Markets) and a Sr Developer with С++ and Python

NOTE:
G.G. Consulting Group uses advanced ATS systems to track and manage candidates and jobs. We do not use AI tools for candidate screening.