# Business Analyst / Project Manager - Equity Volatility

**Company**: Equity IT
**Location**: London, United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://mlp.eightfold.ai/careers/job/755955761568
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_8e57ca54-2af

## Description

We are seeking a Business Analyst / Project Manager to join our team in London. As a key member of our Equities Volatility business, you will play a crucial role in delivering tools that enable Portfolio Managers to perform research, backtest strategies, and risk manage an equities derivatives portfolio.

In this role, you will work closely with the business to gather and synthesise requirements, analyse data dependencies, and create project plans. You will also be responsible for managing day-to-day project deliverables, highlighting and escalating issues, and resolving conflicts and roadblocks.

Key responsibilities include:

- Working with the business to gather and synthesise requirements across both investment teams and core business asks

- Analysing upstream/downstream data dependencies and creating the necessary BRD/FRD, JIRA, and project plans

- Managing day-to-day project deliverables; highlighting, escalating, and resolving issues, conflicts, and roadblocks

- Creating user guides and other documentation that will be used to onboard new users to the platform

- Creating and maintaining product roadmaps and other project artifacts required to manage stakeholder expectations

- Coordinating/ tracking development tasks, testing, and verifying releases to ensure user requirements are being met

Required skills include subject matter expertise in Equities Derivatives, working knowledge of Equities Derivatives market data, pricing, and risk management methodologies, hands-on BA/PM experience working on proprietary derivatives pricing, analytics, and risk management systems, and high-level understanding of Asia Equities Options markets and requirements around listed options execution infrastructure.

Qualifications include 6+ years of experience in a relevant BA/PM role, experience working in a scrum environment, working knowledge of JIRA, development background or CFA, and basic understanding of Python and ability to read Java code to extract what is developed.

## Skills

### Required
- Subject matter expertise in Equities Derivatives
- Working knowledge of Equities Derivatives market data, pricing, and risk management methodologies
- Hands-on BA/PM experience working on proprietary derivatives pricing, analytics, and risk management systems
- High-level understanding of Asia Equities Options markets and requirements around listed options execution infrastructure
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, excellent written documentation skills