Lead Business Analyst

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Andersen seeks a Lead Business Analyst for a major banking project with a UAE financial institution. The role involves replacing a back-office system to boost efficiency, modernize infrastructure, and ensure scalability across brokerage and market-making services.

The customer is a UAE-based public financial institution headquartered in Abu Dhabi. Regulated by the Securities and Commodities Authority, it offers a comprehensive range of financial services, including brokerage, asset management, corporate finance advisory, and market making. Through strategic partnerships in the GCC region and a focus on digital innovation – such as a proprietary trading app and expanded access to global markets – the customer continues to strengthen its market position and deliver value-driven, sustainable financial solutions.

The project aims to fully replace the existing back-office operations system that supports key service lines, including Retail Brokerage, Institutional Brokerage, and Market Making & Liquidity Providing.

Responsibilities:

Setting up priorities for the collection of functional requirements.
Introducing best practices in business analysis and product ownership (incl. methodologies, documentation templates, etc.).
Assisting in the features prioritization and roadmap creation.
Creating business requirements and GAP analysis documents.
Assisting Architect in the preparation of technical description from the perspective of matching the functional features of the solution with the defined technical modules.

Must-haves:

Commercial experience as a Business Analyst for 4+ years.
Strong background in fintech (brokerage, trading, financial ops).
Strong experience in Discovery Phase.
Experience with Web Services.
Experience in documenting requirements in the User Story format.
Deep knowledge in all techniques of requirements elicitation, experience in requirements management.
Experience in designing and developing software documentation.
Experience in designing REST and SOAP APIs.
Experience in modeling business processes (UML, ERD, BPMN).
Experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
Knowledge of requirements management tools (at least Jira and Confluence).
Strong analytical skills to critically evaluate information from multiple sources.
Level of English – Upper-Intermediate or above.

Nice-to-haves:

Experience as a System Analyst.

Reasons why this job would be interesting to you:

Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Reuter Gruppe, T-Systems, TUI, Ryanair, Johnson & Johnson, etc. This project is just your beginning here – working with us means reliability and prospects.
We have been strengthening our expertise since 2007. During this time, we have formed an excellent BA & SA team with streamlined processes, which now consists of more than 200 qualified analysts.
We welcome specialists from every part of the world.
Salaries at Andersen are pegged to the EUR, and our employees are provided with a benefit package and an extensive set of bonuses.
We give our employees an opportunity to attend and participate in the company’s BA meetups, as well as offer a compensation program for international professional certificates.
There are many different ways to grow and develop at our company. You can improve as a tech specialist or a resource manager, and all your activities will be decently rewarded.
You will have an opportunity to take on the role of a mentor and help a group of BA/SA beginners grow.
Our employees have access to Andersen Knowledge Base, where they can take courses in a variety of areas: the art of negotiation, PreSale & Discovery, Agile essentials, product ownership, microservice architecture, API design, SQL, AWS, GDPR, UX/UI, people management, and more.