Senior Quantitative Business Analyst South Africa - Gauteng - Mesh Trade

    Mesh Trade
    Mesh Trade Gauteng

    1 week ago

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    Role Summary

    As a Business Analyst, you will work with the greater product team to launch quality products that solve real client problems and create new opportunities for all financial market participants. This is a core responsibility within our product team as we pride ourselves on ensuring that the solutions we build solve real-world problems and create accessibility to financial markets for all.

    We have positions available in Johannesburg and Stellenbosch.

    Your Mission

    • Define requirements and lead the team in executing the build of Mesh.Oracle which controls and defines all the financial assets issued in Mesh. The Mesh.Oracle is built and run on the Quant Lib library.
    • Identify financial and risk management problems and apply mathematical and statistical methods to solve them.
    • Define requirements for implementation of financial and risk management models.
    • Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; reprioritise and redefine as necessary.
    • Perform continuous monitoring and improvement of financial and risk management processes.
    • Utilise product implementation methodologies: Lean Startup and Agile development.
    • Identify and establish the scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
    • Define and document models for solving financial and risk management problems.
    • Apply advanced statistical and predictive modelling techniques to build, maintain and improve on financial product offerings across multiple asset classes.
    • Define and specify the requirements for the implementation of financial models by the wider product team.
    • Manage requirements for financial model implementation throughout the product delivery lifecycle.
    • Continuously monitor the performance of financial products and associated models for improvement.
    • Provide business metrics for the overall project to show improvements, as well as ongoing tracking and monitoring of performance.
    • Elicit, analyse, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders, whether customers or end users.
    • Conduct interviews to gather requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, storyboards, use cases, scenarios, or other methods.
    • Assist with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicate these back to the business stakeholders.
    • Translate conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to the wider product development team.
    • Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to the product development team.
    • Develop and utilise standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications, both business and functional.
    • Analyse and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
    • Conduct peer and team reviews of requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
    • Collaborate with project sponsors to implement project scope and vision.
    • Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritise collected requirements.
    • Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of requirements to stakeholders.
    • Research, review, and analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further improving these processes.
    • Stay up-to-date with new requirement tools and strategies.
    • Conduct research on products to meet agreed upon requirements.
    • Guide the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organisation may opt to use.
    • Lead the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimised.
    • Provide guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members.

    About You

    You are a creative problem solver and want to build a career in a Fintech startup.

    You communicate clearly and have great interpersonal skills in a dynamic team.

    You are an analytical and detail-oriented individual with strong problem-solving abilities.

    You are able to work in a team or self-manage (stakeholder and expectations management is important).

    You have 3+ years' experience in quantitative research with preferred experience in coding in R/Python/MATLAB in financial services.

    You have working experience in the field of quantitative research.

    You have working knowledge of the financial market across different asset classes, with a particular focus on interest-bearing/fixed income.

    You have working knowledge of standard analysis processes, BPMN and UML.

    BSc or MSc in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, applied mathematics, finance, engineering or physics.

    Not required but would be beneficial:

    Experience working with blockchain or other Financial Market applications.

    Experience in product development in a lean-led, design thinking focused and agile team setting.

    Post-graduate qualification and CFA/FRM advantageous.

    We have no interest in creating silos in our business and like disrupting our processes. No information is proprietary and we know that when everyone is empowered to make informed decisions, we move our business forward at speed.



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