Group Overview

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries.  We are 5,300 people strong.  We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview

The Technical Business Analyst (TBA) will elicit, understand and document Functional and Non-Functional requirements whilst working closely with the TP ICAP Business, Corporate and Technology teams.

The TBA will ensure, together with the project team, that requirements are accurately translated into a Roadmap with Milestones and User Stories. The TBA will work on complex Order Management and Deal Management Systems, including integration with Enterprise services and third party systems.  The TBA will analyse, understand and model existing business processes within the company and recommend improvements to ensure the effectiveness of the processes.

Role Responsibilities

Work closely with the business product owners, business product analysts, and the development team, to ensure the delivery roadmap is in line with business priorities

Help the development teams identify Stories which can be grouped to form minimum viable deliveries in order to support the identification  in order to deploy regularly to production

Help team members understand the focus and delivery value of each milestone and each release

Be capable of articulating the business requirements to support planning and estimation

Be responsible for capturing business needs in user stories and use cases and ensure that here is sufficient detail to allow scope definition, estimation and prioritisation

Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisation

Be proactive in supporting the team’s engagement in a well defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs

Support the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging domain and business knowledge

Identify opportunities to consolidate deliveries so as to more effectively address root cause issues across multiple platforms or business products

Challenge the business on their assumptions of what they need to uncover what their problems actually are so that development will be equipped to propose more efficient or effective solutions, or at a minimum ensure deliveries are addressing root cause issues

Ensure that business prioritisation gates in the SDLC are utilised effectively by guiding the business product owners and analysts through the SDLC

Work with the business product owners to shepherd their articulation of business needs and priorities and capture these using preferred tooling in recognised formats such as user stories and use cases

Support members of the software team in delivering high quality and innovative software solutions that meet business needs by working with team members at each stage in the feature lifecycle: estimation, prioritisation, test case analysis, development, testing, deployment

Collaborate with the development team, the PEs, TLs and TDMs and the business to establish and analyse trade-offs between usability and delivery

Be a liaison between the business units, technology and support teams

Identify and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate

Work with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates, identify potential areas of risk and suggest mitigating actions

Experience / Competences:

Essential:

Degree or equivalent industry experience

Experience in a business analysis role in the delivery of complex systems

Experience of eliciting and capturing requirements, using user stories and use cases, in a software development environment for the delivery of complex systems

Enterprise system experience

Experience of the full software development lifecycle in a technical role

Desired:

Relevant Masters or higher degree

Experience of delivering platforms and services across multiple teams

Experience of multi-year projects from inception to maintenance

Experience of regulatory driven projects

Experience of mentoring colleagues and supporting colleague growth and advancement

Experience of transitioning applications and/or products from vendors or remote locations to local teams

Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products

Financial sector experience

Experience of using agile tooling to support team delivery

Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach

Strong analytical ability and problem solving skills

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Not The Perfect Fit?

Concerned that you may not meet the criteria precisely? At TP ICAP, we wholeheartedly believe in fostering inclusivity and cultivating a work environment where everyone can flourish, regardless of your personal or professional background. If you are enthusiastic about this role but find that your experience doesn't align perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be the ideal candidate for this position or another opportunity within our organisation. Our dedicated Talent Acquisition team is here to assist you in recognising how your unique skills and abilities can be a valuable contribution. Don't hesitate to take the leap and explore the possibilities. Your potential is what truly matters to us.

Company Statement

We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That's why we're building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready and willing to contribute. TP ICAP Accord - our Employee Network - is a central to this. As well as representing specific groups, TP ICAP Accord helps increase awareness, collaboration, shares best practice, and holds our firm to account for driving continuous cultural improvement. 

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