Senior Business Analyst

Take ownership of complex trading requirements and help shape the evolution of a sophisticated market platform, translating business needs into clear, implementation-ready solutions.

• Analyse and specify complex trading functionality across the full trading lifecycle, including order handling, execution workflows and market models.
• Translate business and instrument requirements into clear business requirements, functional specifications and interface specifications.
• Assess the business, operational and technical impact of changes across multiple systems.
• Work closely with business users, product managers, architects, developers and testing teams to turn requirements into deliverable solutions.
• Support feature refinement, implementation planning and delivery within an Agile environment.
• Contribute to topics spanning trading, market data, reference data and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Ensure requirements and specifications are detailed, consistent and ready for implementation.

This organisation is a well-established player in the financial markets sector, providing technology-driven infrastructure and services that support secure, efficient and regulated trading. Its environment combines complex financial products, high-performance platforms and close collaboration between business, technology and operations teams. Based in Zurich, the organisation works with a broad range of market participants and places strong emphasis on reliability, transparency and continuous improvement. Employees contribute to initiatives that have a direct impact on trading processes, market data and the wider investment ecosystem. The culture is professional, international and delivery-focused, with opportunities to work on challenging projects involving modern trading platforms, evolving market requirements and complex stakeholder landscapes within a highly regulated financial services environment across both business and technology domains.

• At least 8 years of experience in requirements engineering within exchange trading, market infrastructure or broader financial services.
• Strong expertise in exchange-traded financial instruments, particularly fixed income and structured products.
• Knowledge of equities and ETFs is an advantage.
• Solid understanding of trading platforms and matching engines, including order handling, execution workflows, market models and trading lifecycle processes.
• Demonstrated experience analysing and specifying complex trading functionality across interconnected systems.
• Strong track record of producing high-quality business requirements, functional specifications and interface specifications.
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and the ability to translate complex concepts into actionable requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across business and technology teams.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Fluent English.