Job Description – Business Analyst
Summary
The Business Analyst sits within Cassini’s Product team, translating client and business requirements into detailed technical and functional specifications for development. The role requires a detail-orientated candidate with financial services experience, ideally in market risk, credit risk or collateral workflows and analytics, gained either at a financial institution or a fintech vendor.
The Business Analyst converts feature requirements into development documentation that developers, product owners, QA and end users (delivery, support) can work from. They will absorb complex business use cases quickly and translate these into well-defined technical and functional specifications, and will be able to guide a developer with a non-financial background through complex financial analytics functionality.
Full Time – Chennai central office location.
About us
With the launch of our brand-new Chennai, India office, this is a unique opportunity to join a fast-moving team in a dynamic, startup-style environment. Cassini is a highly regarded global company now building a key technology center in Chennai, and this is a chance to be part of a global team while also building a new group from the ground up.
Step into the future with Cassini — Founded in 2014, we are the established, core utility provider of analytics and optimization tools built for the derivatives industry. From London to New York, Sydney to Singapore, hedge funds, asset managers, and banks worldwide rely on our solutions.
Our award-winning platform empowers clients to reduce margin, optimize collateral, and enhance their liquidity risk framework, delivering real-time, front-to-back analytics on the full cost of derivatives trading.
What sets us apart?
- Recognised as 'Best Derivatives Tech Provider' and 'Analytics Leader’
- Global impact with a rapidly expanding footprint
- Analytics provider to the largest asset managers in the world
- Enterprise-grade security (ISO 27001 & SOC-2)
- Seamless integration with OMS, EMS, and collateral systems
At Cassini, our client focus drives everything we do. We’re a collaborative, energetic team transforming how the financial world manages their liquidity risk. With challenging projects, continuous learning opportunities, and cutting-edge technology, we empower our employees to grow their skills and reach their full potential every day.
Role
The core responsibilities of the Business Analyst are:
- Communicate with delivery, support, product owners and partners to understand business requirements and priorities
- Understand the high-level architecture of Cassini software
- Produce detailed documentation of feature requirements
- Create and refine Jira tickets to reflect development requirements for a given project
- Define functional acceptance criteria for epics and individual tickets in Jira
- Create user documentation explaining the impact of new development work to end users
- Specify details of initial margin calculation models
- Produce prototype calculators, wireframes and workflow diagrams to define proposed solutions
- Validate results and identify configuration errors during QA testing
- Research new margin and collateral calculations, workflows and use cases together with Product Owners
- Use Cassini APIs and UI to test functionality and identify potential issues or improvements
Tech Stack
We work with an exciting, modern stack built for scale, reliability, and productivity. To be successful in this role, you’ll need solid experience with some of the core tools, platforms, and technologies we work with:
- Jira, Confluence and the agile workflow
- Figma, Lucid and other wireframing tools
- Generative AI tools
A basic understanding of our technology stack is also helpful, although not essential:
- SQL databases
- AWS infrastructure
- Python
- APIs / SFTP
Required Qualifications, Skills & Experience;
- Strong understanding of margin and collateral workflows and use cases, pre- or post-trade
- Experience with cleared OTC, ETD or Bilateral derivatives
- Experience of Initial Margin and collateral workflows
- Strong working knowledge of Jira and other project management tools
- Strong data manipulation skills using JSON, CSV and XML files
- Exceptional written and interpersonal skills, communicating internally and with clients
- Proven ability to document detailed functional and technical specifications
- Problem-solving capability and the ability to convert a client problem into a technology solution
- 3+ years’ experience in a Business Analyst role at a bank/buy-side firm or a technology solution provider
- Strong academic background, with a degree in mathematics, science, business or a related field
- Excellent teamwork skills.
- Professional fluency in English (both written and spoken)
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across global teams and time zones.
Preferred Qualifications, Skills & Experience;
- Experience of Repo, Stock Borrow Lend or other financing solutions
- Understanding of margin models and optimisation algorithms
- Knowledge of the buy-side or sell-side’s operating processes
- Experience using and defining API endpoints
- Good understanding of data modelling and experience defining new data models
- Some Python or VBA coding experience
- Demonstrable experience using AI tools to fast-track tasks, automate processes and solve problems
Benefits
We offer a competitive and rewarding compensation package, including:
- Competitive CTC salary based on experience and role fit
- Bonus:
- Retention Bonus: One month’s salary, payable upon successful completion of the six-month probation period.
- Annual Discretionary Performance Bonus, subject to end of year performance review
- Health & Wellness Insurance
- Life Insurance
- AD&D Insurance
- Meal Benefits
- Learning & Development: Training, accreditation, and other development opportunities relevant to your role and career growth.
- Enhanced Leave Policy: 18 days Leave plus an extra day of annual leave for each year of service, up to 5 additional days.
