Technical Business Analyst

Phi Partners is a Capital Markets Technology consultancy, working in a specific context, providing specialist services with a niche focus. We are proud to work with more than 60 financial institutions, including some of the biggest and best known banking brands in the world.

Our People

Our people are project managers, business analysts, technical architects, developers, testers and support analysts – from recent technology or business graduates, to seasoned professionals with 25 years’ experience.

Our Context

We specialise in sell-side and buy-side trading technology. We work primarily with investment banks, but increasingly also with asset management firms and hedge funds. Our clients are IT managers or managers in Trading and Risk business departments who need our help defining, implementing or supporting their technology. Our expert consultants understand the financial products and the business processes that support them.

Our Focus

We specialise in specific vendor trading applications with a speciality in Valuation and Risk.

Summit, Sophis, and Murex are the best-known Vendor technologies in this context – we know them inside out: how to configure them, customise them, integrate them, use them, support them. In fact, we know them so well that we have partnerships with the vendors and often provide our experts to the vendors themselves, for specific projects.

Across and beyond these trading applications, we have particular expertise in quantative development – producing complex valuation and risk measures with bespoke pricing models, integrated with the client’s other technology.

Our Services

We provide individual experts to work under a client’s direction, or whole self-managing teams under the direction of one of our own senior experts. Our people provide services to support or change the client’s technology, or advise on technology choices.

We support our clients with change projects relating to their evolving business requirements – for example introduction of new financial products or responding to new regulations. We regularly undertake change projects relating to a client’s changing technology landscape: anything from a multi-year projects for a greenfield trading system implementation, or development of a cross-asset bespoke valuation service, to building an individual interface or configuring a back office workflow. Migrations of data or business functionality between systems, and system upgrades are both core parts of our business.

We also have a small product devlopment team: we offer a market-leading on-line data archiving solution for Summit, with plans for other specialised products in the pipeline.

Our Company

Phi was founded in 2004 and has since become a 200 people strong organization. We are growing, but we strive to retain our “small company” feel: we treat everyone as an individual and even the most junior employee at Phi knows the CEO!

Our headquarters is in London, and we serve our clients globally - from our offices in the UK, France, Germany and Romania, as well as from client premises across Europe and beyond.

Our Bucharest office (11, Dinu Vintila, Euro Tower, 13th Floor, 2nd District, 021101) was established in 2009 and is home to more than half our workforce running more than half of our business. Here you can find an energetic and dynamic delivery team offering speialist consultancy services across all roles and seniorities. We support clients all over Europe from our Bucharest offices, and there are also plenty of opportunities for our Bucharest team members to work overseas. The Phi Partners Operations functions are also based in Bucharest.

• Good financial skills
• The BA will conduct Analysis in order to confirm work for the Developers
• The BA will also cover the Testing, so an additional tester is not required currently
• Background;
o Quant BA
o API
o Interfaces
o Reconciliations
o VaR
o Mathematical background is desirable
• Understanding of the most used trading instruments in the Capital Markets space: Swap, FRA, Cap/Floor, Options, Bonds, Exchange Trades, FX Trades
• Knowledge of the functional business flow for Front Office, Middle office and Back office related activities is nice to have
• Solid mathematical background ideally with applicability in the financial space
• Good understanding of pricing concepts. Risk calculation methodologies and P&L calculation and explanatories is a big plus ok
• Analytical approach in solving problems
• Able to design and execute test cases
• Excel, VBA and SQL
• English – written / spoken to a very good level; French or German are a plus

Business skills
• Understands and uses appropriate methods, tools and applications. Demonstrates a rational and organised approach to work. Has sufficient communication skills for effective dialogue with customers, suppliers and partners. Is able to work in a team. Absorbs technical information when it is presented systematically and applies it effectively.

Software Testing
• Creates test scripts and supporting data, working to the specifications provided.
• Executes and records test cases in accordance with project test plans.
• Reports test activities and results.

Requirements Definition and Management
• Uses established techniques to identify current problems
• Assists in more complex requirements activities

Business Modelling
• Understands the purposes and benefits of modelling
• Uses established techniques to model simple subject areas with clearly-defined boundaries.
• Applies models with input from subject matter experts and communicates the results back to them for review and confirmation.

Influence
• May have some external contact with customers, suppliers and partners.