Job Opportunity: Senior Business Analyst (m/w/d)
We are partnering with a leading client in Zurich to recruit an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join a prominent organization within the financial markets sector. This role is ideal for a professional with deep expertise in exchange trading, market infrastructure, and requirements engineering who thrives at the intersection of business and technology.
Your Responsibilities
- Analyze, document, and validate complex business requirements within trading and market infrastructure environments.
- Produce high-quality business requirements, functional specifications, interface specifications, and implementation-ready analysis deliverables.
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, product managers, architects, developers, and testing teams to ensure successful delivery.
- Assess business, operational, and technical impacts of new trading functionality across multiple systems.
- Support Agile delivery teams throughout feature refinement, implementation planning, testing, and deployment.
- Contribute to the enhancement of trading platform capabilities and market infrastructure services.
- Ensure requirements align with regulatory, operational, and business objectives.
Your Profile
- Minimum 7-8 years of experience in requirements engineering within exchange trading, market infrastructure, capital markets, or broader financial services.
- Strong expertise in exchange-traded financial instruments, particularly:
- Fixed Income and Structured Products
- Experience with Equities and ETFs is advantageous.
- Deep understanding of:
- Trading platforms and matching engines
- Order management and order handling
- Trade execution workflows
- Market models and trading lifecycle processes
- Proven experience analyzing and specifying complex trading functionality in multi-system environments.
- Ability to create clear, comprehensive, and implementation-ready specifications and analysis artifacts.
- Strong analytical skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Knowledge of financial market regulations and market infrastructure concepts.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Fluency in English.
What You'll Bring
- Strong problem-solving capabilities and a structured analytical mindset.
- Ability to translate complex business and trading requirements into practical technical solutions.
- Confidence engaging with senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
- A collaborative approach and commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes.
Additional Information
- Role: Senior Business Analyst
- Skill Level: Senior (Level 3 – 7+ years of experience)
- Start Date: 01 November 2026
- End Date: 31 October 2027
- Language: English
- Duration: 12 months
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland
- Workload: 100%
- Remote Work: Up to 20%
- Type of Contract: Temporary staffing
If you are passionate about financial markets, trading technology, and business analysis in a fast-paced environment, we invite you to apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.
Work locationZürich, Zürich, Switzerland