Senior Business Analyst

Seeking a Senior Business Analyst with heavy data, and data savvy.

• Financial markets, trading, securities, etc., background.
• Good communication: Experience working with business users on requirements and coming up with solutions + analysis based on requirements.
• Good SQL and very data savvy.
• Bonus: GenAI, Interest in Data Science (for prototyping, experimentation using Data Science).

Description:

• The Lead Business Analyst conducts moderate-to-high complexity analysis of automated surveillance systems that detect potential violations of regulatory rules. This role is responsible for understanding, validating, enhancing, and supporting surveillance patterns across multiple asset classes and regulatory domains. The analyst serves as the bridge between regulatory requirements and the technical implementation of surveillance logic, ensuring patterns produce accurate, complete, and defensible results. The analyst also actively leverages generative AI tools to accelerate analysis, documentation, and automation - serving as the domain expert who ensures regulatory accuracy and completeness of all outputs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in financial regulatory technology, surveillance systems, or capital markets data analysis.
• Proficiency in SQL for large-scale data analysis on distributed platforms.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (Python) for data analysis, automation, and tool development.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to independently investigate data discrepancies and validate system outputs.
• Experience reading and interpreting complex data processing pipelines and business logic in source code.
• Advanced proficiency in spreadsheet tools for business and operational analysis.
• Excellent documentation skills - ability to translate complex technical implementations into clear business-facing knowledge documents and Business Requirement Documents (BRDs).

Preferred:

• Major in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience with project management and documentation tools and their APIs, and leading UAT efforts.
• Knowledge of SEC/Financial regulatory rules and reporting requirements.
• Experience with data science efforts within financial market data (stocks, ETFs, options), and presenting findings to a wide audience.
• Experience leveraging generative AI tools (LLMs, AI coding assistants) and validating AI-generated output to accelerate data analysis, code comprehension, documentation, and automate production workflows.
• Strong interest in learning more about US financial market structure and evolving regulatory landscape.
• Experience reverse-engineering surveillance pattern source code to build comprehensive knowledge documentation.
• Familiarity with surveillance pattern architectures (exception generation, scoring, aggregation, reconciliation).
• Experience with distributed query engines and big data platforms.
• Experience with source code management and release branch workflows.

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