Business Analyst / Product owner - NYC - Fintech - salary up to 200K depending on experience

Adaptive Financial Consulting•New York, NY

3h•Hybrid

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

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

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

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