Business Analyst

Revolut is hiring for the role of Business Analyst!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Working on products from inception to launch - producing documents and specifications, receiving requirements and building out products
• Analysing how new and existing products fit our architecture, front office, and how and where settlement and reconciliation will happen
• Considering accounting and risk metrics
• Testing with teams internally and externally facing vendors
• Supporting the development and integration of new business initiatives into the Treasury ecosystem
• Translating business objectives into detailed functional and technical requirements used by engineers to build and modify treasury applications and services
• Documenting end-to-end delivery processes of new applications/features into playbooks to maximise repeatability and scalability
• Building solid relationships with product teams
• Performing gap analysis to identify root causes and escalate issues and risks to appropriate parties
• Liaising with stakeholders and team members across various locations and time zones

Requirements:

• A good understanding of Financial instruments and their life-cycles, so you can ask the right questions from both a technical process and accounting perspective.
• Knowledge and experience with various financial instruments such as Equities, Fixed Income (bonds, repos), Money Market instruments, Foreign Exchange (FX Spot, Forwards, Swaps), Derivatives (Futures, Options, Swaps like IRS/CCS).
• Experience with or understanding of trading platforms (e.g., Bloomberg, Murex, Calypso, Orchestrade, Fidessa) and settlement systems.
• A solid understanding of all stages of the change programme life cycle, from initiation and design to post-implementation.
• A detailed understanding of banking IT systems, including trade/transaction processing workflows, from booking to GL entries
• Proficiency in understanding data models, data mapping, and using SQL for data querying and analysis.
• Excel skills for data analysis, reconciliation and testing.
• Knowledge of how different financial systems interact, including API usage, messaging formats (e.g., FIX, FpML, SWIFT MT/MX), and ETL processes
• The ability to work independently with minimal need for guidance/supervision
• Understanding regulatory environments (e.g., MiFID II, EMIR, Dodd-Frank)
• Knowledge of modern integrations for Finance / Trading platforms (IBM MQ, Kafka, XML-based / JSON-based integrations)
• Accounting experience with investment Products