Associate, Business Analyst – Global Markets Technology
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 110 - 139
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count
Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) one of the worlds leading financial groups. Across the globe were 150000 colleagues striving to make a difference for every client organization and community we serve. We stand for our values building long-term relationships serving society and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
With a vision to be the worlds most trusted financial group its part of our culture to put people first listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation speed and agility. This means investing in talent technologies and tools that empower you to own your career.
Join MUFG where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.
The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly motivated Associate Business Analyst to drive strategic technology initiatives across Global Capital Markets. The role partners closely with stakeholders across the full trade lifecyclefrom Front Office through Middle Office Back Office Finance/P&L and Market Riskto translate business needs into clear actionable requirements for technology teams. The position contributes to platform modernization workflow optimization and cross-system integration efforts ensuring technology solutions align with business objectives and regulatory expectations. Success in this role requires strong analytical capabilities comfort analyzing data and system flows and the ability to influence stakeholders across diverse functional groups. The role also requires foundational projectmanagement skills including coordinating crossfunctional activities supporting project planning and helping ensure deliverables are met within expected timelines.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage with business and technology stakeholders to capture complete functional and non-functional requirements ensuring alignment across teams.
- Translate complex business processes into clear actionable specifications that enable efficient development and accurate implementation.
- Maintain comprehensive well-structured documentation covering system functionality process flows and release deliverables.
- Partner with Front Middle and Back Office teamsas well as Finance/P&L and Market Riskto understand trading workflows and identify requirements and improvement opportunities.
- Act as a liaison between business partners and developer QA and architecture teams ensuring requirements are feasible clearly understood and delivered effectively.
- Collaborate with technology teams to review data flows integration points and system interactions to support robust design and seamless end to end operation.
- Validate functional designs early in the lifecycle to confirm alignment with business objectives and minimize downstream rework.
- Support test planning UAT execution defect triage and post release validation to ensure high quality stable deployments.
- Manage user stories sprint activities and issue tracking within Jira maintaining structured project documentation in Confluence.
- Contribute to project governance through transparent status reporting proactive risk identification and structured issue management.
- Assist with project planning activities by tracking timelines identifying dependencies and monitoring delivery progress.
- Coordinate cross functional meetings action items and status updates to support project execution.
- Use SQL AWS Python and related tools to conduct root cause analysis of production issues assess business impact and coordinate timely resolution.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Finance Business Information Systems Economics or related field.
- 5 years of Business Analyst experience within investment banking or financial services with a deep understanding of capital markets workflows.
- Deep knowledge of front middle and back-office processes and the systems that support them.
- Familiarity with applicable capital markets regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Ability to interpret data models perform SQL-based analysis and understand system-to-system integrations.
- Proficiency with Jira Confluence BPM/process-mapping tools and requirements-management tooling.
- Strong communication and documentation skills with demonstrated ability to influence and manage stakeholders across functions.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities with strong organizational discipline.
- Foundational project-management skills including the ability to coordinate cross-functional activities and support project planning and delivery.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with SQL Python AWS and modern data or ML-adjacent tooling.
- Hands-on experience using Jira and Confluence within Agile or hybrid delivery models.
- Exposure to market data pricing risk regulatory reporting or trade-lifecycle systems.
- Understanding system integration concepts and application lifecycle-management best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to support project planning by maintaining milestone visibility tracking progress and coordinating activities across teams.
- Proven capability working within Agile/hybrid delivery teams including hands-on participation in sprint planning backlog refinement and issue/risk coordination.
The typical base pay range for this role is between $110K - $139K depending on job-related knowledge skills experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits retirement plans educational assistance and training programs income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities paid maternity and parental bonding leave and paid vacation sick days and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package please click the link below.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants including those with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance (ii) the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment if any.The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color national origin religion gender expression gender identity sex age ancestry marital status protected veteran and military status disability medical condition sexual orientation genetic information or any other status of an individual or that individuals associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal state or local law.Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Economics
- JSP
- Access
- Excel
- Testscript
- Jira
- Project Management
- Scrum
- Sharepoint
- Java
- XML
- JSON
- Data Analysis
- XSLT
About Company
MUFG is a leading global financial group backed by 2,700 locations in over 50 countries and regions, offering comprehensive and tailored financial solutions to our clients worldwide.
