• Strong hands-on Business Analysis experience within financial services, capital markets or another data-intensive environment.
• Experience delivering change involving market data, exchange data or financial data platforms, from initial requirements gathering through to implementation and validation.
• Demonstrable ability to translate broad or ambiguous requests into clear functional requirements, process flows and testable acceptance criteria.
• Experience analysing complex data flows, systems, interfaces and dependencies, with an understanding of how changes affect operational workflows and downstream users.
• Strong experience working across operational teams, end users, senior stakeholders and Technology, adapting discussions to different audiences and levels of technical detail.
• Ability to consolidate requirements from multiple business areas, reconcile different perspectives and establish a coherent, agreed scope.
• Confidence to challenge assumptions and unnecessary variation, identify common requirements and recommend practical, efficient and scalable approaches.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to clarify ownership, resolve gaps and maintain alignment throughout delivery.
• Comfortable taking proportionate project management responsibility for cross-functional change, coordinating actions, dependencies and timelines while maintaining focus on the Business Analysis remit.
• Good understanding of how market data is sourced, distributed, permissioned and consumed within a financial institution.