OMS Sr Business Analyst / Product Manager
Location: Toronto, ON (hybrid 2-3 days/week onsite)
Job Type: Contract (6+ months, potential for permanent hire in the future)
Department: Capital Markets Technology / Front Office Trading
++Job Summary:++
We're seeking a highly motivated Senior Business Analyst to join our client's Capital Markets Technology team. This role sits at the intersection of trading, technology, and product, supporting key initiatives to enhance and modernize our Order Management System (OMS) environment. You'll work directly with traders and cross-functional teams to analyze current workflows, define business needs, and help design the future state for our trading platforms.
This is a hands-on role that requires a self-starter who can work with minimal oversight, write clear requirements as well as clear and actionable user stories, and is ready to grow into a product ownership position.
++Responsibilities:++
- Partner with traders, technology teams, and product leads to gather and document business and functional requirements related to front-office trading and OMS workflows.
- Conduct current state analysis of trading workflows, identify pain points and gaps, and propose improvements or redesigns to meet business goals.
- Define and document user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and mockups where needed to support development.
- Participate in backlog grooming and prioritization activities; help maintain structured books of work and roadmaps.
- Collaborate on the evaluation and decommissioning of multiple OMS platforms, including high-level migration planning.
- Work with QA and development teams through the full SDLC to ensure high-quality delivery of new features and enhancements.
- Support release planning, UAT, and post-deployment validation.
- Assist in crafting user guides, training materials, demos, and client communications as needed.
- Serve as a domain expert in OMS functionality and capital markets workflows.
- Design solutions such that the technology can extend and be complimentary to the firm's other product offerings.
- Align product vision with firm's principals and long term objectives. Clearly translate this linkage to the sales team and externally as appropriate.
- Lead the direct communications to internal and clients on new release items.
- Draft reference materials and work with Marketing on branding and distribution.
- Continuously train the internal teams on detailed functions, features and logic.
++Preferred Qualifications++
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, or Computer Science preferred, equivalent experience would be considered.
- 10+ years of financial industry experience and a track record of succeeding in any blend of the following disciplines: product management, business analysis and/or business development.
- Fluent in equity market structure concepts, with a strong working knowledge of multiple regions and other asset classes.
- Hands-on experience working with front-office trading desks (preferably equities or equity options).
- Strong familiarity with a broad range of OMS platforms, and the intricacies associated with technology integrations (e.g., Fidessa, WEX, Tbricks, TRAFiX, Bloomberg, etc.)
- Excellent documentation skills -- capable of producing user stories, process flows, specs, and wireframes.
- Capable of continually zooming out to contribute strategically and zooming in to focus down to an extreme level of detail.
- Strong understanding of capital markets workflows, market structure, and regulatory regimes (e.g., SEC, FINRA, MiFID II).
- Ability to operate independently and proactively.
- Personable, confident, articulate and passionate about the role and the industry in general
++Nice to Have:++
- Experience at a Wall Street firm, with specific domain expertise as a big plus.
- Preference for operating in a highly collaborative and agile/hybrid agile environment. "Capital A" Agile experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with OMS/EMS integrations and vendor system migrations.
- Prior exposure to global trading platforms and/or multi-region regulatory environments.
- Strategic mindset with an eye for product ownership and long-term platform evolution.
