Senior Business Analyst (Forex Experienced)

Position Title: Senior Business Analyst

Reporting Line: Reports directly to the Product Manager.

Location: Fully Remote

General Purpose: Acts as the analytical and operational bridge between product stakeholders and the development team, translating product insights and stakeholder needs into clear, actionable tasks to drive product improvement and delivery.

Specific Objectives (~12 months):

• Investigate and document how the existing products work, including their logic, architecture, and user-facing behavior.
• Build communication channels with all relevant stakeholders to clarify product expectations and align understanding across teams.
• Translate discovered functionality and stakeholder input into clear, structured tasks for development, ensuring the backlog reflects current and accurate requirements.

Key Activities:

• Collect, analyze, and formalize business and functional requirements from multiple sources.
• Investigate software/system errors and transaction-level issues across integrated platforms.
• Maintain clear documentation covering product logic, system behavior, and feature specifications.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve product functionality or usability based on a product-oriented mindset.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to bridge understanding and maintain delivery momentum.

Requirements

Key Competences:

• Strong product mindset with the ability to evaluate feature impact and propose better alternatives.
• Solid understanding of forex and trading domains; familiarity with crypto products is a plus.
• Proven ability to operate in fast-paced, multitasking environments with evolving priorities.
• Ability to reverse-engineer existing systems by interviewing developers and analyzing system behavior.
• Clear, structured documentation skills using Confluence and Jira.
• Proficiency with SQL and the ability to analyze data from both relational and non-relational databases.
• Understanding of APIs and messaging systems (e.g., REST, brokers, MQ) to trace system behavior and dependencies.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills to align stakeholders and bridge business–tech understanding.

Likely Current Job:

• Product Analyst, Business Analyst, or System Analyst at a trading, forex, or fintech company
• Analyst involved in integration-heavy environments or real-time platforms (e.g., brokers, crypto exchanges, neobanks)
• Technical Business Analyst in high-growth startups or scale-ups with minimal documentation and high delivery velocity

Employer Value Proposition:

Join a fast-moving fintech team where your ability to bring clarity and structure will have immediate, visible impact. You'll work on real-world trading products in an environment that values autonomy, deep thinking, and cross-functional collaboration. This role offers hands-on exposure to complex systems, real-time data, and the opportunity to directly shape product direction in a growing company.

Benefits

Compensation:

Competitive and commensurate with experience, including potential performance-based incentives.

Assessment Process:

Candidate evaluation will be conducted by the Product Manager through structured interviews.

Originally posted on Himalayas