What Youll Do

• Drive Requirements & Documentation: Collaborate with senior analysts to gather draft and refine business requirements technical specifications user guides procedures and technical notices to member firmsensuring developers have clear direction and users have the guidance they need.
• Bridge Business & Technology: Work closely with Market Operations Market Regulation Office of General Counsel and technology teams to ensure systems integrate seamlessly into real-time and post-market surveillance environments.
• Manage Projects & Track Progress: Assist in identifying milestones maintaining project plans tracking user feedback and managing backlogs using tools like Miro JIRA Excel and PowerPointkeeping initiatives organized and on track.
• Provide Production Support: Respond to inquiries from internal teams and member firms regarding data and system issues troubleshoot problems and escalate complex matters to senior analysts when needed.
• Shape User Stories & Testing: Participate in requirements reviews with stakeholders identify and write user stories and test scripts and actively engage in application testing to ensure quality and functionality.
• Empower Users: Create clear user documentation and training materials and deliver end-user training that helps teams leverage FINRAs surveillance systems effectively.
• Ensure Quality & Integrity: Contribute to quality assurance processes through software reviews and release testing protecting the integrity of FINRAs critical processing environments.
• Embody FINRAs Values: Collaborate both in-person and virtually to advance investor protection and market integrity in all that you do.

What You Bring

Required Qualifications:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Finance Business Information Technology or related field

• Minimum of four (4) years of related experience in business analysis financial services technology or securities operations

Knowledge:

• General understanding of fixed income and/or equity order management or trade reporting systems

• Working knowledge of application design and analysis

Skills:

• Excellent organizational skills with ability to manage changing priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Strong written and verbal communication skillsyou can translate technical concepts for diverse audiences

• Ability to work effectively within established guidelines and procedures while adapting to evolving needs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with securities industry processing including knowledge of FINRA member firm order and trade reporting systems or exchange-based systems

• Familiarity with market surveillance concepts or regulatory technology environments

• Hands-on experience with business analysis tools such as Miro JIRA Confluence or similar platforms

• Background in quality assurance user acceptance testing

• Understanding of data collection and reference data management in financial services

Why Join FINRA

Youll build valuable expertise at the intersection of securities markets regulation and technologyskills that are in high demand across the financial industry. We offer competitive compensation comprehensive benefits professional development opportunities and a collaborative culture where your analytical skills directly contribute to market integrity and investor protection.

Ready to turn complex regulatory challenges into elegant technical solutions Lets talk.

Work Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment with defined in-person presence requirements.

• Some travel/in-person presence required.

• Extended hours including occasional weekend testing may be required.

For work that is performed in CO FL TX IL PA MA MD VA Washington DC NY and NJ please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the addition to location actual compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to the candidates skill set level of experience education and market considerations.

CO/FL/TX: Minimum Salary $83900 Maximum Salary $150300

IL/PA: Minimum Salary $92400 Maximum Salary $165300

MA/MD/VA/Washington DC: Minimum Salary $96600 Maximum Salary $172800
NY/NJ: Minimum Salary $96600 Maximum Salary $180400

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To be considered for this position please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

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Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Non-exempt employees are also eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal state or local law. As part of its dedication to employee wellness FINRA provides comprehensive health dental and vision insurance. Additional insurance includes basic life accidental death and dismemberment supplemental life spouse/domestic partner and dependent life and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment short- and long-term disability long-term care business travel accident disability and legal. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution tuition reimbursement commuter benefits and other benefits that support employee wellness such as adoption assistance backup family care surrogacy benefits employee assistance and wellness programs.

Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off 5 personal days and 9 sick days unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave jury duty leave bereavement leave voting and election official leave for federal state or local primary and general elections care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

*Based on full-time schedule

Important Information

FINRAs Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Codes investment and securities account restrictions and new employees must comply with those investment restrictionsincluding disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRAs Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice Presidentby the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

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As standard practice employees must also execute FINRAs Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the companys policy on nepotism.

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