Capital Markets Business Analyst

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Job Title: Capital Markets Business Analyst

Location: Washington, DC, (Onsite 3–4 Days/Week)

Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Capital Markets Business Analyst with strong domain expertise in Treasury, Credit Risk, Market Risk, and Counterparty Management, working closely with business, vendor, and technology teams in a COTS environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Business Analysis & Requirements Management

• Partner with Treasury, Market Risk, Counterparty Management, Credit Risk, and Compliance teams to gather and analyze requirements
• Work on credit limits & utilization, counterparty ratings & methodologies, and hierarchies, portfolios & exposure aggregation
• Translate business needs into functional requirements, user stories, process flows, and data mappings
• Perform gap analysis between current and future state processes
• Validate requirements against COTS platform capabilities and identify configuration vs customization
  
  

Vendor & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate with COTS vendor to clarify requirements, review solution designs, and validate configurations
• Act as a bridge between business users, vendor teams, and internal IT teams (Dev, QA, Data, Integration)
• Facilitate workshops, backlog grooming sessions, sprint reviews, and UAT sessions
  
  

Integration, Data & Downstream Systems

• Define data interface requirements between treasury systems, credit platforms, and pre/post-trade compliance systems
• Collaborate with data teams on data models, mappings, controls, and reconciliation rules
• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of credit-related data flows
  
  

Agile Delivery & Testing

• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Write user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Support system testing, UAT, and defect triage
• Ensure solutions align with regulatory, audit, and risk governance requirements
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, or related field
• 7 years of Business Analyst experience in financial services (Capital Markets, Treasury, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Counterparty Risk)
  
  

Required Skills:

• Strong understanding of trade lifecycle including OTC and exchange-traded instruments, counterparty exposure, and portfolio aggregation
• Experience with credit limits, exposure management, utilization, and counterparty ratings
• Experience working with COTS platforms and Agile environments
• Strong data skills including data analysis, data mapping, and SQL
• Ability to interpret data models, source-to-target mappings, and APIs/interfaces
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Treasury Management Systems (TMS)
• Knowledge of pre-trade and post-trade compliance processes
• Familiarity with counterparty hierarchy, legal entities, and netting structures
• Understanding of credit exposure calculations and ratings usage across portfolios
• Experience with market data providers, rating agencies, and internal credit models