Business Analyst / Product owner - NYC - Fintech - salary up to 200K depending on experience
About the position 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, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in Barcelona, London, Manila, Montreal and New York, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions. We are now looking for a senior BA to join our NYC team to help build and shape a new, Adaptive owned, product suite that will be instrumental to the future of the company's product strategy! You ARE: A strategic thinker with great communication skills A great relationship builder with your team and clients A problem-solver and team player Responsibilities • Support the requirements gathering and analysis throughout the discovery and design phases • Ascertain core features and functionality to be incorporated into a suite of business accelerators • Coordinate the deliverables and work packages for the development team • Actively managing client expectations, making assumptions explicit and keeping a log of important decisions throughout the engagement • Be the stakeholders’ proxy in the team, able to make quick, firm decisions when it comes to scope, requirements and prioritization/triage • Guiding internal teams, and client where needed, decisions effectively so that the team’s time is spent in a way that maximises efficiencies and mitigates project risk • Working with our client where needed, the other Adaptive BA’s and Project Managers to manage the scope of the delivery and dependencies • Drive the backlog review and estimation process and take part in planning activities • Capture non-functional requirements and keep supportability in mind • Making sure the creation/maintenance of sufficient functional documentation is included in the backlog • Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team (including but not limited to: real-time programming, high availability, TDD, BDD, UX design, DevOps concerns…) • Work with distributed teams Requirements • Strong front office stakeholder relationship management experience • Experience delivering in an agile environment • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Experience with QA/Business Acceptance Testing • Some experience working with UX designers • Some knowledge of client onboarding, client tiering, KYC Benefits • Flexible hybrid working model • Medical from the 1st of month following your start date (i.e. if you join on the 24th of July, it starts on the 1st of August). We have 6 Aetna plans to choose from as provided by our PEO, Justworks. We make a flat monthly contribution to your healthcare costs. • Dental and vision from the 1st of the month following your start date - we have 3 dental and 2 vision plans to choose from. We make fixed contributions to each. • 23 days of vacation per calendar year plus 11 public holidays • Group disability insurance: short-term and long-term (60% and taxable) • 401K safe harbor plan where we match contributions up to 5% of base pay on a paycheck-to-paycheck basis (you can opt-in after 90 days of service) • Gym subsidy of up to $50 per month (and we pay the taxes on that so it's a real $50) post probation. • Life insurance at 2 x salary • Commuter benefits • Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account