Business Systems Analyst

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Gather and document business and system requirements with trading, operations, risk, finance, compliance, and technology teams.
• Translate derivatives processes into feature definitions, process maps, data mappings, interface specifications, and user stories.
• Analyze front-to-back workflows including trade capture, confirmation, valuation, settlements, collateral, margin, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Create feature definitions, gap analyses, use cases, and workflow diagrams.
• Coordinate with development and QA teams to clarify requirements, validate solutions, and support implementation.
• Document source-to-target mappings, reference data requirements, field transformations, and integration logic.
• Support system enhancements and production issues involving APIs, batch processing, trade feeds, market data, and reporting pipelines.
• Participate in system testing, SIT, UAT, and defect triage; analyze changes across trading and post-trade systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve product efficiency across derivatives processes.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, or a related field.
• At least four years as a Business Systems Analyst; fintech or financial services technology experience is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of derivatives such as swaps, futures, options, forwards, or structured products, and their trade lifecycle.
• Experience documenting requirements, functional specifications, data mappings, and integrations.
• Strong understanding of SQL, relational databases, data analysis, system interfaces, APIs, file-based interfaces, message flows, and enterprise integrations.
• Familiarity with SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery models.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Trading platforms, risk systems, collateral platforms, or post-trade processing experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with interest rate, credit, FX, or equity derivatives is preferred.
• FIX, FpML, SWIFT, XML, JSON, or other financial messaging standards are preferred.
• Data lineage, reconciliation logic, exception handling, and control frameworks are preferred.
• Exposure to cloud platforms, data warehouses, or real-time event-driven architectures is preferred.
• Regulatory, audit, financial controls, backlog management, roadmap support, or technical feature delivery experience is preferred.

Compensation

• The compensation range for the Iowa role is $73,000-$110,000 per year.
• Compensation may vary by office location, role, skills, education, and experience.

Employment and benefits