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.
Founded in London in 1866, the Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,200 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.
About Parameta Solutions
Parameta Solutions is the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP Group. The business provides clients with unbiased OTC content and proprietary data, in-depth insights across price discovery, risk management, benchmark and indices, and pre and post-trade analytics. Its post-trade solutions offering helps market participants control their counterparty and regulatory risks through a growing range of tools that manage balance-sheet exposure, as well as compression and optimisation services. The Data & Analytics division includes the following brands: Tullett Prebon Information, PVM Data Services, ICAP Information and Burton-Taylor Consulting.
Job duties:
Analysis:
- Be a subject matter expert in D&A’s data collection and processing infrastructure and systems
- Work with D&A Product and Sales to understand new business requirements
- Work with D&A Technical teams/Managers to convert business requirements into IT solutions
- Analyse existing data flows and processes working with the TPI Product team to support new business initiatives and changes in the global regulatory landscape
- Understand, articulate and define the benefits that will be delivered by a given technology initiative or change.
- Understand the broad context of technology within Tullett Prebon to ensure any system changes do not affect other business processes.
- Requirement and defect /issue prioritisation
Requirements Management and change control:
- Break down requirements into epics and user stories and work closely with all stakeholders to define acceptance criteria
- Work with business stakeholders and product managers to manage the product backlog.
- Develop and maintain feature documentation
- Be responsible for User Acceptance Testing and end user training/handover
- Produce Support documentation as required
Communication:
- Communicate to the project team on a regular basis by delivering progress reports both written and verbally
- Coordinate and manage requirements capture, and review workshops with multiple stakeholders.
- Communicate with the wider technology teams to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues
- Act as a domain expert or Subject Matter Expert (SME) in relation to the system or services they are involved with
- Be the primary point of contact for the Development Team. Resolve any design or functional issues and deal with any queries.
- Communicate to the project team on a regular basis by delivering progress reports both written and verbally
- Coordinate and manage requirements capture, and review workshops with multiple stakeholders.
- Help set and continually manage requirements delivery expectations with team members and business users
- Communicate with the wider technology teams to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues
Requirements for the role:
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral
- Ability to forge working relationships with various teams within the organisation
- Ability to prioritise workload to meet deadlines and work well under pressure
- Logical and structured approach to problem solving
- Familiar in Microsoft office, especially MS Project and Excel
- Numerate and analytical
- Reacts to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently
- Business Analysis qualifications (ISEB, Dip BCS) an advantage
- Proven analysis skills with real time data
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence
Supervisory Duties:
- Management and supervision of the global BA team
- Establish an environment that promotes respect for individuals and adheres to the policies and guidelines of the Company.
- Provide leadership, direction, advice and guidance to the team, thus maintaining high levels of integrity, motivation and morale.
- Maintain staff competence by ensuring that staff skills or knowledge gaps are met with appropriate training and development as required in order to perform their roles to their maximum capability and fulfil their potential.
- As appropriate, initiate actions to further improve your own and the team’s skills and performance.
- Ensure all staff who report to you are aware of how to escalate any issues which may arise.
- Set development and general objectives
- Maintain regular feedback to team members regarding their performance and undertake annual reviews
- On an on-going basis review process/procedures utilised within the Bus Analysis function seeking improvements and efficiencies, making recommendations to Senior Management
