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About the Role
Swoon is hiring a Business Systems Analyst on contract for a major Canadian financial institution's Global Derivatives Technology group. You will gather requirements, build data mappings, support UAT, and partner with trading, risk, and operations teams.
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Responsibilities
- Gathering and documenting business and functional requirements — user stories, BRDs, FRDs — with clean traceability from requirement through delivery
- Building data mappings and validating transformations across systems; digging into data with SQL
- Supporting UAT: writing test scenarios and acceptance criteria, troubleshooting defects, helping shepherd releases to production
- Investigating production issues, running impact analysis, and driving enhancements
- Partnering across trading, risk, operations, compliance, and QA to keep scope and priorities aligned
Requirements
- ~2–3 years as a Business Systems Analyst within capital markets, with hands on OTC derivatives and trade lifecycle exposure
- Strong SQL and Excel for data analysis; comfort creating precise data mappings
- A track record authoring requirements and supporting UAT end to end
- Sharp stakeholder communication — you can explain a technical concept to a trader and a mapping spec to a developer in the same afternoon
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Overview
- My client — a major Canadian financial institution — is hiring a Business Systems Analyst on contract to join its Global Derivatives Technology group.
- This team builds and enhances the platforms behind OTC derivatives trading: trade capture, lifecycle management, and end to end processing across asset classes including rates, FX, credit, equities, and commodities.
- You'd sit close to the trading floor, working day to day with developers, QA, PMs, and business stakeholders across trading, risk, operations, and compliance.
- The book of work is a mix of trade reporting regulatory projects and process improvement on existing trading applications — so this is a strong fit if you like living in the detail of how a trade attribute flows through to a reporting obligation.
What you'd be doing
- Gathering and documenting business and functional requirements — user stories, BRDs, FRDs — with clean traceability from requirement through delivery
- Building data mappings and validating transformations across systems; digging into data with SQL
- Supporting UAT: writing test scenarios and acceptance criteria, troubleshooting defects, helping shepherd releases to production
- Investigating production issues, running impact analysis, and driving enhancements
- Partnering across trading, risk, operations, compliance, and QA to keep scope and priorities aligned
What we're looking for
- ~2–3 years as a Business Systems Analyst within capital markets, with hands on OTC derivatives and trade lifecycle exposure
- Strong SQL and Excel for data analysis; comfort creating precise data mappings
- A track record authoring requirements and supporting UAT end to end
- Sharp stakeholder communication — you can explain a technical concept to a trader and a mapping spec to a developer in the same afternoon
Nice to have
- Regulatory reporting exposure (Dodd Frank, EMIR, MiFID II, UMR, DTCC)
- FpML/FIX
- REST/JSON
- Python
- Murex or Calypso
- Agile tooling (Jira, Confluence)
Compensation & Schedule
- 6 month contract with strong potential to convert to full time
- One day per week on site in Toronto's Financial District; remote the rest
- Rate range CAD 35–45/hr depending on experience
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