Business Analyst / Product owner - NYC - Fintech - salary up to 200K depending on experience

WE ARE: 

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in Barcelona, London, Manila, Montreal and New York, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for a senior BA to join our NYC team to help build and shape a new, Adaptive owned, product suite that will be instrumental to the future of the company's product strategy!

YOU ARE: 

• A strategic thinker with great communication skills 
• A great relationship builder with your team and clients
• A problem-solver and team player

YOU HAVE:  

• Strong front office stakeholder relationship management experience;
• Experience delivering in an agile environment;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Experience with QA/Business Acceptance Testing;
• Some experience working with UX designers;
• Some knowledge of client onboarding, client tiering, KYC

YOU WILL MANAGE THE PROJECT BACKLOG: 

• Support the requirements gathering and analysis throughout the discovery and design phases
• Ascertain core features and functionality to be incorporated into a suite of business accelerators
• Coordinate the deliverables and work packages for the development team
• Actively managing client expectations, making assumptions explicit and keeping a log of important decisions throughout the engagement
• Be the stakeholders’ proxy in the team, able to make quick, firm decisions when it comes to scope, requirements and prioritization/triage
• Guiding internal teams, and client where needed, decisions effectively so that the team’s time is spent in a way that maximises efficiencies and mitigates project risk
• Working with our client where needed, the other Adaptive BA’s and Project Managers to manage the scope of the delivery and dependencies
• Drive the backlog review and estimation process and take part in planning activities
• Capture non-functional requirements and keep supportability in mind
• Making sure the creation/maintenance of sufficient functional documentation is included in the backlog
• Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team (including but not limited to: real-time programming, high availability, TDD, BDD, UX design, DevOps concerns…)
• Work with distributed teams

WHY US: 

• To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive 😁) You can learn from anyone here, which is  the beauty of it
• To take part in the growth and development of a great company
• Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.
• Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
• Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). The balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us.
• We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programs.

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US 🗣

You can check our Glassdoor page 🎉

BENEFITS  (What we offer in return // what you’ll get )

We create benefits with YOU in mind.💜 

• Flexible hybrid working model
• Medical from the 1st of month following your start date (i.e. if you join on the 24th of July, it starts on the 1st of August). We have 6 Aetna plans to choose from as provided by our PEO, Justworks. We make a flat monthly contribution to your healthcare costs.
• Dental and vision from the 1st of the month following your start date - we have 3 dental and 2 vision plans to choose from.  We make fixed contributions to each.
• 23 days of vacation per calendar year plus 11 public holidays
• Group disability insurance: short-term and long-term (60% and tax