Job Description
The TeamYou will be working with internal product owners and a dynamic team of technologists using bleeding edge software development practices with the backing of a large multinational organization. We have multiple scrum teams consisting of scrum masters, business analysts, user experience professionals, server and user interface developers, and quality assurance engineers. We strongly follow agile principles of continuous improvement:· Individuals and interactions over processes and tools· Working software over comprehensive documentation· Customer collaboration over contract negotiation· Responding to change over following a planThe TechnologyWe are working on a wide variety of groundbreaking applications using Python, AWS.To support our development, we already use multiple standard industry tools like GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Cucumber, Vagrant, and are always interested in other tools that we feel will help us engineer better products.Position OverviewAre you an outstanding Business Analyst with strong communication skills and plenty of experience of working with Agile development teams? We are looking for a BA to join us in the Financial Crime and Reputational Risk business unit. We’re currently working on an existing SaaS product and need someone like you to join us to take scope from Product Owners and translate into clearly articulated user stories for our development teams.This is a fantastic opportunity to join an organization that sees the value that Business Analysts can bring to the Agile development process, and where there are fantastic opportunities to shape the role and develop your career. What’s more, you’ll get to work for the market leader in building the next generation of software for the industry.Responsibilities· Be the main point of contact with Product Owners in order to elicit, analyze, and validate complex business requirements for the software we’re building.· Control change from Product Owners that could affect the business case.· Document and translate the business requirements into detailed user stories for our UX and development teams with supporting diagrams, Acceptance Criteria and Rationales.· Act as a proxy for the Product Owners as the key point of contact with the development teams to answer their questions about the requirements.· Be accountable for maintaining a quality backlog of user stories, through activities such as backlog grooming.· Provide input to the prioritization of the backlog to make sure the development teams are working on the right things in the right order.· Play the role of Scrum Master.BUSINESS ACUMEN· Be accountable for the quality of your work, ensuring it’s delivered within agreed procedures and timeframes.· Become a subject matter expert in AML and KYC (assuming you’re not already!).· Look at how we’re working and suggest how we can do it even better!SKILLS & EXPERIENCES· Experience in Scrum / Agile methodology, including writing user stories and acceptance criteria utilizing Behavioral Driven Development (BDD)· Business analysis experience within a global organization.· Ability to capture business requirements and represent them effectively.· Excellent communication skills including ability to influence and negotiate.· Excellent presentation and facilitation skills.· Excellent problem solving, analysis, research and process mapping skills.· Excellent writing skills - both technical and non-technical.· Customer focused and dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of the customer.BenefitsWe are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!We enhance each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal.LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organization of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.· Detail oriented and highly organized, with the ability handle multiple complex tasks.· Understands the principles of usability and helps ensure the software is fit for purpose.· Understands requirements management best practice and ensures these practices are used.· Understands the effects of technology used within development, and the impact on the business client.· Able to produce quality deliverables and meet deadlines.· An understanding of the KYC / AML environment would be highly beneficial QUALIFICATIONS· Bachelor’s Degree required· Knowledge of Business Analysis Book of Knowledge or CBAP an advantage· Computer literate – MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Internet proficientLSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.
