Lead Business Analyst – Data Domain Specialist

NextWave is an award-winning Digital Acceleration Consultancy for Financial Services with a particular focus on rapidly driving business outcomes and modernizing Financial Institutions through technology. Clients come to NextWave because they have key integration, business growth, efficiency, and control objectives and seek a more future-focused alternative to the big-name consultancies. Strategy, Innovation, Complex Transformation, FinTech Solutioning, and Social Enterprise are at the heart of what we do.

By combining deep industry expertise with the innovative deployment of business solutions built on market-leading technology, we enable clients to realize business outcomes better, faster, and safer. We help our clients to define their strategies and partner with them to execute, often deploying fintech and low-code solutions which can typically be delivered 5x faster than traditional approaches, resulting in processes automated from weeks to minutes and data decision accuracy improvements of up to 90%.

The NextWave team comprises high-caliber Financial Services industry change leaders, including ex-MDs from top-tier firms and new talent. We are the consulting partner of choice for leading FinTechs, Banking, Asset & Wealth Management, Insurance, and Market Infrastructure clients.

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Business Analyst with in-depth expertise in Eagle PACE and data domain knowledge to join our team. This role is critical in a turnaround situation within a dynamic and evolving team.

• Lead and drive data-related initiatives, ensuring alignment with business needs.
• Collaborate with a team undergoing significant transformation, bringing stability and structure to the current "team in red."
• Utilize in-depth experience with Eagle PACE to contribute to data solutions and improvements.
• Produce high-quality BRDs (Business Requirements Documents) and other BA documentation.
• Contributing to our internally built offerings as we build a collection of best-in-class solutions
• Working effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
• Actively get involved in the new consulting community

• Strong background in financial services or consulting, with hands-on experience in Eagle PACE.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the following data domains:
  • Foreign Exchange (FX)
  • Cash Management
  • Benchmark Data
  • Positions
• Demonstrated ability to lead and guide teams through change, with a focus on data-driven solutions.
• Minimum 7 years experience in a professional environment delivering business outcomes
• Nice to have: Knowledge of Order Management Systems (OMS), particularly Charles River and Bloomberg AIM.

• Competitive salary
• Agile/ Flexible working
• Professional training and accreditation
• 401k match
• Health Insurance Plan
• Rockefeller Centre office location

Our commitment to you:

We will provide mentoring, training and guidance (technical skills, soft skills and Finance business skills) from our leadership team who have many years of practical experience delivering business outcomes in the Finance arena.

Work pattern:

This is a permanent role with a potential for flexibility for agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients.

What we do:

We provide Consulting expertise and delivery services with a focus on a select group of progressive technology platforms which are helping to change the FS Industry.

The evolution of today’s digital business landscape requires firms to reinvent to stay relevant and succeed in the new market, at a pace not seen before. Opportunities and threats are emerging from traditional and non-traditional sectors, driving new strategies across the dimensions of clients, competition, data, innovation and value. A new stack of FinTech platform technologies are enabling firms to reinvent their value proposition to collaborate and compete on customer experience, data insights, operational resilience and time to market.

Location:

You will be based in the NextWave Americas New York office, however, travel may be required for client based projects and some projects will be located fully at client office locations.