Senior Business Systems Analyst

WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.  We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.    We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.   Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.    For more information, visit WPP.com.   Why we're hiring: WPP is driving one of the largest transformations in the marketing and advertising industry. Under the leadership of our Global CIO, we are uniting 2,500+ technology professionals into a single global function – powering the future of our agencies and clients. As part of this, we are delivering a global CRM transformation, consolidating multiple legacy platforms into a single Microsoft Dynamics–based solution. This programme will simplify our tech landscape, enhance client visibility, and enable consistent, data-driven ways of working worldwide.   We’re looking for a Senior Business Analyst to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering this transformation. You will lead discovery, define requirements, and ensure business needs are translated into high-quality solutions. Working at the intersection of business, design, and technology, you’ll partner closely with functional, change, and delivery teams to: * Drive clear, structured discovery and analysis * Enable strong, globally aligned functional design * Support the move from local solutions to standardised global processes * Ensure traceability from business outcomes to delivery This is a high-impact role, central to reducing complexity, driving adoption, and delivering real business value across WPP. What you'll be doing: * Lead end-to-end discovery across markets, agencies, and functions to understand current processes, systems, pain points, and opportunities * Elicit, analyse, and document business requirements, use cases, and user stories aligned to the global CRM vision * Support the design of future-state global CRM processes in partnership with the CRM Functional Lead and Design Authority * Evaluate market, agency, and client-specific needs, distinguishing core global requirements from local configuration * Ensure clear traceability between business requirements, functional design, and delivered outcomes * Collaborate with technology teams and system integrators to clarify requirements and support delivery * Contribute to prioritisation, release planning, and trade-off decisions through evidence-based analysis * Support change and adoption by creating clear, user-friendly documentation and workflows * Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and impacts related to scope, processes, and data * Support the definition of CRM data structures, standards, and governance * Ensure alignment between process design, data models, and reporting requirements * Drive improvements in data quality, consistency, and usage across CRM What you'll need: * Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst on large scale, global technology or platform transformation programmes  * Strong discovery and analysis capability in complex, decentralised or multi business organisations * Experience working on CRM, ERP, or enterprise SaaS implementations (Microsoft Dynamics experience beneficial but not essential) * Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear, structured requirements * Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior business leaders, product owners, and technical teams * Comfortable operating across both strategic discovery and detailed delivery phases   Who you are: You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working. You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected. You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.   What we'll give you: Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work. Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry. Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge? #LI-Hybrid  We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY NOTICE (HTTPS://WWW.WPP.COM/EN/CAREERS/WPP-PRIVACY-POLICY-FOR-RECRUITMENT) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW WE PROCESS THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE.

Qube Research & Technologies

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology- and data-driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high-quality returns for our investors. The Compliance Technology team are responsible for designing and implementing scalable solutions that enable QRT to meet its regulatory obligations and maintain robust control frameworks. This role collaborates with compliance, technology, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable and effective solutions that support regulatory requirements, operational controls, and business goals. The successful candidate will combine strong technical business analysis skills with process design expertise. Responsibilities include gathering and analysing requirements, working closely with developers to translate business needs into technical solutions, and ensuring delivery of these solutions into production. The role also includes aspects of Scrum Master responsibilities, ensuring agile practices are followed and delivery is well-coordinated. Your Future Role within QRT * Work with Trade Surveillance and Electronic Communications Surveillance teams to gather and document business and regulatory requirements. * Translate surveillance requirements into clear functional specifications, including alert logic, data inputs, workflows, and control expectations. * Support the analysis and improvement of surveillance processes, helping identify control gaps and efficiency opportunities. * Partner with engineering teams to ensure requirements are correctly implemented and tested. * Use structured query language and Python to analyse and validate trade, order, and communications data. * Support alert tuning, investigations, and root cause analysis of data or control issues. * Provide day-to-day support to surveillance teams on data queries and system behaviour. * Contribute to agile delivery activities, including backlog refinement and sprint planning. Your Present Skillset * Experience in technical business analysis within financial services. * Exposure to trading, market surveillance, or compliance environments. * Good structured query language skills and working knowledge of Python. * Understanding of market abuse regulations such as the Market Abuse Regulation and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. * Understanding of Financial Information exchange messaging and how electronic orders and executions flow between trading systems. * Familiarity with order management systems and execution management systems, and how order and trade data feeds downstream surveillance and compliance controls. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. * Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.  QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Adaptive

WE ARE: At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage. Our clients include the world's leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Manila, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions. We are now looking for Technical  Business Analyst services on an exciting project!    THE INDIVIDUAL/S PROVIDING THE SERVICES WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE: * The ability to see the big picture while managing the finer details of delivery. * The ability to communicate and facilitate effectively across both technical and business stakeholder groups. * The ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous or complex delivery situations. * The ability to understand system behaviour and interactions beyond purely functional outcomes. * A strong technical and domain-driven mindset, with the ability to work closely with engineering teams * Hands-on experience with high-performance messaging or sequencing platforms such as Aeron, Kafka, Hydra, or equivalent — including an understanding of message ordering, state machine replication, and fault-tolerant distributed systems * Demonstrable exposure to low-latency or high-throughput messaging infrastructure in a financial or similarly demanding technical environment * Experience in QA, Software Engineering, Technical Business Analysis, or another highly technical product environment * A product-first mindset, combining Domain-Driven Design principles with a deep understanding of systems and user impact * The ability to define and document functional and non-functional requirements clearly and effectively * An understanding of performance, scalability, resilience, and availability in modern platforms * Experience working in Agile or Kanban environments across the full software development lifecycle * Demonstrable experience contributing to architecture and design discussions, simplifying complex challenges into deliverable solutions * The ability to create process flows, sequencing diagrams, and documentation that align technical and operational teams DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES: DRIVE CLARITY IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS: * Shaping requirements and driving alignment in ambiguous situations, with minimal direction * Adapting to different delivery models across products, including engineering-led and BA-led ways of working * Define and maintain functional and non-functional requirements — including operational scenarios, acceptance criteria, and QA validation needs across distributed workflows * Ensuring questions are raised early, so that solutions are well understood, well defined, and ready to be delivered SHAPE THE BACKLOG AND DELIVERY: * Collaborate with engineering, QA, and architecture teams to translate complex technical solutions into structured backlog items, deliverable stories, and testable outcomes * Help stakeholders make their vision for the product materialise, especially in the early stages of each delivery phase * Be the stakeholders' proxy in the team — able to make quick, firm decisions on scope, requirements and prioritisation/triage * Drive backlog review and estimation processes, and take part in planning activities * Define acceptance criteria and tests up front as part of a Business-Driven Development approach * Follow up during implementation and testing phases to ensure delivery satisfies requirements COLLABORATE ACROSS THE TEAM: * Work closely with QA to assess failure scenarios and help distinguish bugs, enhancements, and new feature requirements * Facilitate discussions across technical and business stakeholders to drive clarity, alignment, and sound decision-making * Support delivery, implementation, and release processes, ensuring solutions align with business objectives, customer use cases, and non-functional expectations * Help improve operational processes and workflows — both internally and externally — bringing a calm, pragmatic and collaborative approach   WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US 🗣 You can check our Glassdoor page 🎉   THE PROCESS Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us 😉 We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly. So here you will have three stage interviews: 1- A chat with one of our great recruiters. 2- A zoom chat with one of our BA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience 3- A Face to Face interview (via Zoom). But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter.  Here is a little tip for you during those stages:  Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc 😊  DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: 💜 Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity.  All we ask is that anyone providing services here is respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles. Background check: The engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive on any individual/s providing the services.