Business Analyst

**Title: Financial Tech Business Analyst

Duration: Contract

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)

Pay range: $80-$84/hr (depends on experience)

Description:**

-In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This role is part of the job family responsible for analyzing business processes, identifying needs, and establishing requirements to enhance efficiency and productivity through a blend of business acumen and analytical skills.

-Interested in joining a team that's eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world?

Role:

-The Trade Surveillance group is responsible for the prevention and investigation of abusive, manipulative, or illegal trading practices in the securities markets that are either customer or firm initiated. This group identifies patterns of trading behavior across multiple asset classes that may be an indication of market manipulation before these can compromise the firm's reputation.

-The ideal candidate for this role blends a technical skillset with strong communication skills.

What You'll Do

• Lead end to end business analysis efforts for complex, data intensive technology initiatives

• Partner with business stakeholders to define scope, objectives, and detailed functional requirements

• Build trusted relationships with clients and senior stakeholders; manage expectations and delivery outcomes

• Develop prototypes, analytical models, and proof of concepts to support business decision making

• Translate business needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and use cases

• Apply AI-assisted analysis to code repositories, Jira/Confluence content, test evidence, and business documentation to identify impacts, gaps, dependencies, and traceability, with appropriate human review and governance controls

• Collaborate with internal and external data providers to ensure surveillance and model requirements are met

• Work closely with engineering teams to support solution design and technical specifications

• Lead and manage QA activities, including automated test case creation, planning and execution

• Perform independent validation with a strong focus on client outcomes, controls, and regulatory considerations

• Support ongoing enhancements, user feedback, and issue investigation

• Promote responsible GenAI adoption across BA/PM workflows by sharing reusable prompts, patterns, accelerators, and lessons learned with the broader team

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 5\+ years of total experience combining Business Analysis, Project Management, and hands-on software delivery experience within financial services or financial technology.

• Strong data analysis skills, including hands-on experience with SQL

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders

• The candidate should be capable of understanding and solving highly complex problems, have excellent communication skills and have financial services experience, preferably in the areas of investment banking and trading

• Solid understanding of Capital Markets, preferably in Sales \& Trading or Investment Banking

• Experience working with trade data, position data, and reference data

• Knowledge of SDLC methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall

• Experience delivering medium to large scale technology or data programs

• Practical experience using GenAI tools in BA/PM workflows, including requirements drafting, Jira story creation, acceptance criteria generation, meeting summarization, documentation review, impact analysis, test case generation, and stakeholder-ready reporting

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Trade Surveillance or market abuse monitoring

• Experience using GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Rovo, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Jira/Confluence AI capabilities, or similar platforms to analyze technical documentation, code repositories, Jira delivery hierarchies, Confluence knowledge bases, meeting notes, and test evidence to produce actionable BA/PM insights

• Experience creating reusable prompts, lightweight agents, or AI-assisted workflows that improve requirements quality, delivery governance, QA efficiency, or executive reporting

• Background working in highly regulated, risk focused environments

PrideGlobal and it's affiliates offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life \& disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

PrideGlobal and it's affiliates are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Fair Chance Employment

PrideGlobal and it's affiliates are a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.

Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates

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Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.

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