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Junior Business Analyst
Job Description:
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Product Development Team as a Junior BA.
This key role will play a crucial part in helping the Product Development Team successfully deliver projects.
It is intended that the successful candidate will be keen to develop and progress towards a full Business Analyst role
within the Product Development Team with increased responsibilities.
Purpose of Role:
• Learning about the Business Analyst role and the Project Lifecycle, and practically applying knowledge and
skills as obtained to successfully deliver projects
• Supporting the Business Analysis function in the Product Development Team and assisting the Business
Analysts in:
o Eliciting and documenting the business requirements
o Chasing-up approvals and managing effective feedback
o Updating documents where necessary
• Running workshops:
o Arranging sessions
o Determining agendas and preparing any necessary workshop material
o Taking notes / meeting minutes
o Providing updates and follow-ups to attendees
• Supporting and updating multiple Project Logs
• Plan, manage and be responsible for own time management according to Product Development priorities -
Planning and working flexibly to a deadline
• Managing the Product Development Document library
• Providing updates and feedback across the Product Development team as required
• Attending Scrums and other key Project Management forums
• Managing small Projects to delivery (with support from existing Business Analysts)
• Supporting test cycles particularly User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Providing training
• Identifying areas for improvement
• Critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources, reconciling conflicts, decomposing high-level
information into details, abstracting up from low-level information to a general understanding, and
distinguishing user requests from the underlying true needs
• Developing requirements specifications according to standard templates
• Writing documentation
• L2 support as and when required
• Being a liaison between the business units, technology teams, support teams and Business Analyst
Registered Office: 201 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 3AB. Registered in England number 5284142
Alpari (UK) Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority

Desired Skills & Experience:
To be successful for this role you will need to keep up to date with technical and industry sector developments and
awareness of evolvement of relevant technologies such as HTML5 vs. Flash, Local vs. cloud etc.
You will have previous experience of working in Agile environments (SCRUM experience is an added advantage) with
a good knowledge of FX, precious metals and CFDs markets. Knowledge of MetaTrader and Currenex (or other ECN
backend and frontend systems) would also be a distinct advantage.
Once you have established yourself, it is intended that you would want to ultimately progress to a Business Analyst
position and will therefore demonstrate the following skills:
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Able to think logical and objectively with the ability to think outside of the box and therefore see the bigger picture
• Comfortable working under pressure and successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Results driven with good time management skills
• Good leadership skills in order to obtain appropriate information and to arrange and co-ordinate projects
• Possess a high attention to detail
Registered Office: 201 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 3AB. Registered in England number 5284142
Alpari (UK) Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority