Business Analyst

Andersen seeks a Business Analyst for a major banking project with a UAE financial institution. The role involves replacing a back-office system to boost efficiency, modernize infrastructure, and ensure scalability across brokerage and market-making services. 

The customer is a UAE-based public financial institution headquartered in Abu Dhabi. Regulated by the Securities and Commodities Authority, it offers a comprehensive range of financial services, including brokerage, asset management, corporate finance advisory, and market making. Through strategic partnerships in the GCC region and a focus on digital innovation – such as a proprietary trading app and expanded access to global markets – the customer continues to strengthen its market position and deliver value-driven, sustainable financial solutions. 

The project aims to fully replace the existing back-office operations system that supports key service lines, including Retail Brokerage, Institutional Brokerage, and Market Making & Liquidity Providing. 

Responsibilities:  

• Setting up priorities for the collection of functional requirements. 
• Introducing best practices in business analysis and product ownership (incl. methodologies, documentation templates, etc.). 
• Assisting in the features prioritization and roadmap creation. 
• Creating business requirements and GAP analysis documents. 
• Assisting Architect in the preparation of technical description from the perspective of matching the functional features of the solution with the defined technical modules. 

Must-haves: 

• Commercial experience as a Business Analyst for 4+ years. 
• Strong experience in the fintech domain (brokerage, trading, financial ops). 
• Strong experience in Discovery Phase. 
• Experience with Web Services. 
• Experience in documenting requirements in the User Story format. 
• Deep knowledge in all techniques of requirements elicitation, experience in requirements management. 
• Experience in designing and developing software documentation. 
• Experience in designing REST and SOAP APIs. 
• Experience in modeling business processes (UML, ERD, BPMN). 
• Experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban). 
• Knowledge of requirements management tools (at least Jira and Confluence). 
• Strong analytical skills to critically evaluate information from multiple sources. 
• Level of English – Upper-Intermediate or above. 

Nice-to-haves: 

• Experience as a System Analyst. 

Reasons why this job would be interesting to you: 

• Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Reuter Gruppe, T-Systems, TUI, Ryanair, Johnson & Johnson, etc. This project is just your beginning here – working with us means reliability and prospects. 
• We have been strengthening our expertise since 2007. During this time, we have formed an excellent BA & SA team with streamlined processes, which now consists of more than 200 qualified analysts. 
• We welcome specialists from every part of the world. 
• Salaries at Andersen are pegged to the EUR, and our employees are provided with a benefit package and an extensive set of bonuses. 
• We give our employees an opportunity to attend and participate in the company’s BA meetups, as well as offer a compensation program for international professional certificates. 
• There are many different ways to grow and develop at our company. You can improve as a tech specialist or a resource manager, and all your activities will be decently rewarded. 
• You will have an opportunity to take on the role of a mentor and help a group of BA/SA beginners grow. 
• Our employees have access to Andersen Knowledge Base, where they can take courses in a variety of areas: the art of negotiation, PreSale & Discovery, Agile essentials, product ownership, microservice architecture, API design, SQL, AWS, GDPR, UX/UI, people management, and more. 

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