About The Role

FDM is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst with deep expertise in Foreign Exchange (FX) to support strategic, regulatory and technology-driven change across our global financial services client. This is initially a 12 month contract with very good prospects to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in London.

The ideal candidate will possess strong product knowledge across FX Swaps, Futures and Options, experience with risk platforms such as Quartz, and the ability to operate across trading, risk, payments and analytics functions.

Responsibilities:

Lead end-to-end business analysis for FX-related initiatives, ensuring requirements align with trading, risk and operational needs.
Document business, functional and non-functional requirements; produce process maps, workflows and user stories
Facilitate workshops with front-office, risk, operations and technology stakeholders.
Serve as SME for FX Swaps, Futures and Options, supporting pricing, lifecycle events and risk factors.
Collaborate with technology teams to enhance and integrate risk systems (e.g., Quartz).
Validate system outputs, pricing behaviour, risk calculations and trade lifecycle events.
Support testing cycles, UAT execution and production readiness activities.
Perform data analysis, support data mapping, and partner with analytics teams to ensure data quality.
Support FX payments and settlements workflows, ensuring alignment between upstream and downstream processes.
Produce documentation for governance, audit and regulatory requirements and support project tracking and reporting.

About You

Deep understanding of FX products including Swaps, Futures and Options.
Experience working with risk platforms (Quartz highly desirable).
Strong analytical skills with experience in data analysis and reporting (SQL, Python or BI tools advantageous).
Experience documenting detailed BRDs, FRDs, process flows and user stories.
Excellent stakeholder management across front-office, risk, operations and technology.
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex topics for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Payments and settlements experience beneficial.
Experience delivering projects in financial markets or trading environments.

Qualifications:

10+ years as a Business Analyst within FX, trading or financial markets environments.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
Relevant certifications in business analysis, finance or technology beneficial.

About Us

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading graduate employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

Why join us

Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
Annual leave and work-place pension

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