Business Analyst & Project Manager, Trading Tech

Christopher Jones

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Business Analyst – Financial Trading – Financial Risk/Compliance – Project Management

Senior BA/PM with extensive experience delivering Front Office transformation, Central Clearing, Treasury & Repo Clearing, and Regulatory Change programs across global financial institutions. Deep expertise in Fixed Income products, Repo, Treasury securities, Bonds, OTC derivatives, and full trade lifecycle processing. Proven ability to lead large-scale initiatives spanning Business Analysis, Project Management, QA/Test Management, stakeholder coordination, and client onboarding.

Strong track record managing front-to-back clearing transformation programs involving Front Office Trading, Risk, Operations, Legal, Compliance, Sales, and Technology teams. Experienced leading Agile delivery, execution tracking, RAID management, UAT coordination, booking model transformation, and regulatory-driven initiatives including FRTB, Basel III, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, and Central Clearing mandates.

Skills

Business Analysis

Regulatory Compliance

Foreign Exchange (FX)

Project Management

Dodd-Frank

Equities

Financial Services

EMIR

Fixed Income

Front Office Transformation

MiFID II

Commodities

Accounting/ Cash Management

BASEL III

OTC Derivatives and Swaps

Algorithmic Trading

CFTC

Waterfall

Treasury and Repo Clearing

Electronic Trading

Agile

Fixed Income and Bond Trading

Risk Management

FIX messaging

Initial and Variation Margins

Counterparty Credit Risk

Problem solving

Central Clearing

Derivative Regulation

Written Communication

Trade Lifecycle

Organizational Skills

Presentation Skills

Professional Experience

Chris Jones LLC, Financial Markets Consulting, Jan 2025 – Present

Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Leading Front Office transformation initiatives focused on the Central Clearing of US Treasury products through CME and FICC within a mandatory regulatory clearing framework.

Managing business analysis and project management activities across Front Office, Middle Office, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Technology teams

Driving requirements gathering and functional design for Fixed Income trading, Treasury clearing, Repo workflows, and trade lifecycle processing.

Coordinating testing execution, QA activities, defect management, and UAT validation across multiple stakeholder groups

Managing project plans, RAID logs, execution tracking, and status reporting for senior management and business stakeholders.

Supporting client onboarding, clearing migration activities, and operational readiness initiatives.

Creating Agile user stories and managing Jira workflows for development, testing, and production implementation.

Utilizing SQL for data validation, reconciliation analysis, and trade flow verification.

Using my expertise in e-trading to complete project under time and budget.

FINSERV Consulting, New York, New York April 2024 – December 2024

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Managing a program for the capture and automatic reconciliation of the Margin (Initial and Variation) and Collateral statements from the counterparties. This system allows for the matching of the counterparty statements with the internal Collateral and Margin management system for all Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, FX, Exchange Traded Derivatives, and OTC (Over-the-Counter) products.

Coordinated front-to-back reconciliation and clearing workflows involving Operations, Risk, Treasury, Legal, Compliance, and Technology teams.

Working with the business team and the technology team to document the Business Requirements and Functional Requirements to enhance the current systems and to make sure all required data is being correctly captured.

Once the Business and Functional requirements are approved, create the Agile User Stories for each of the Requirements in Jira. The Jira tool allows for Issues and Bugs as well as the Project timelines to be very transparent.

Identified and communicated all risks and issues and documented all the changes being made to the existing systems that interface with the Margin and Collateral system.

VIRTUSA, New Jersey November 2023 – March 2024

Senior Business Analyst

Interacted with the product owners and development team to elicit the Business and Functional requirements for the deliverables for the product design of Risk Weighted Assets (RWA) and the models for Risk management across all assets classes.

Captured and documented the detailed requirements and created high level design documentation, activity workflows, business data dictionaries, and data mapping documents.

Conducted regular analysis, of data visualization and SQL Querying, to draw business-relevant conclusions and accurately communicate findings and possible solutions.

Made sure the risk system interacts correctly with the trade platforms Bloomberg and Calypso.

Led the QA and UAT testing to make sure the new enhancements fully work with all systems before updating the system.

Managed the Project Risks & Issues and created the User stories using the Agile methodology.

BNY Mellon, New York, New York July 2021 - October 2023

Project Manager and Senior Business System Analyst

Managed regulatory transformation initiatives involving FRTB, Collateral Management, and Treasury-related trade processing workflows.

Coordinated testing strategy, QA execution, and cross-functional UAT efforts across Front Office Trading, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Technology teams.

Worked extensively with Fixed Income products, Bonds, Treasury instruments, and cleared derivative products.

Partnered with business stakeholders and technology teams to enhance clearing, booking, and risk management processes.

Managed Agile delivery, execution governance, issue escalation, and project communications for senior leadership.

Expert in Broadridge, Bloomberg and the Murex Trading platforms used for trading and OTC reporting to DTCC.

Matrix-IFS, Jersey City, NJ January 2020 – July 2021

Senior Business Analyst/ Project Manager

Working with the Front Office Trading Team, Portfolio Managers, Compliance Team, and Development team in gathering and documenting the business and functional requirements for the trade monitoring for all Fixed Income, Commodities, FX, ETF Funds, and OTC derivative products to be in compliance with the MAR regulations.

Documenting the testing scenarios for all buy-side scenarios to make sure the trade monitoring application is fully compliant with the Federal regulatory rules.

Working with the Compliance Team and Front Office Traders in all user acceptance testing.

Completed this project for trade monitoring 22% under budget and 12% under the timeline.

Using my ability in SQL to interpret and troubleshoot complex queries in multiple databases.

Synechron Consultant at Citi September 2019 - January 2020

Senior Business Analyst

Gathering and Documenting the Business and Functional requirements for the enhancements and upgrades needed to be in full compliance of the Basel III regulations.

This project included the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) that sets the minimum capital requirements for market risk.

Updating the system to do the real time profit and loss (P&L) calculations to monitor the risk and exposure of the assets being traded and held by clients.

Working directly with the Business Users and Technology Team to develop the functionality needed to improve the regulation, supervision and risk management of the firm.

Using my SME in the Financial Markets to upgrade and enhance the risk models for all OTC and centrally cleared products.

CapGemini, Boston, Ma September 2018 – August 2019

Senior Business Analyst

Documenting the Business and Functional requirements for a Collateral management system. This includes the processing of all Initial and Variation margins for all OTC and centrally cleared derivatives.

Documenting the requirements for the updates to the Front office trading platforms Blackrock Aladdin, Finastra and Bloomberg.

Subject matter expert in the financial markets dealing with Equities, Fixed Income, OTC swaps, Commodities, FX and Options.

Documenting the Business requirements for the CAT reporting. Fully educating the technology team on the FIX messaging format and the data needed for the complete audit trail.

Infosys, Houston, Texas September 2017 - August 2018

Senior Business Analyst

Work with the business, compliance, and development team in gathering and documenting the business and functional requirements for a proprietary trade monitoring, and trade risk system that was fully compliant with the MiFid II and CFTC rules and regulations.

Provided expertise in front office commodity trading, and risk modeling (VAR, CVA, and RWA) for both OTC, physical, and centrally cleared trades. This includes the initial and variation margin for all OTC and centrally cleared derivatives.

Directly designed the quantitative models used for trade monitoring to make sure no trades or traders were manipulating the market place.

Created and documented BRD and FRD specifications for a product review application and fully documented the User Stories. Created and reviewed test cases for completeness.

Completed the project 35% under the allocated budget and 28% below the timeline

Scrum master for this project, organized, and ran the daily scrum meetings.

Allegro Development, Dallas, Texas December 2015 – July 2017

Product Manager; PM/BA

Lead the design and deployment of a new trade capture platform to interact with all Commodity Exchanges throughout the world and third party vendor systems (TT and Trayport).

Manage the enhancement of the Derivative Regulation product to comply with the reporting requirements for all physical and OTC trades and conform to the Dodd-Frank; EMIR, MiFID II, and CSA regulations.

Responsible for shaping the vision and business plans for the products. This included developing the roadmap for the product for the coming three years and making the appropriate trade-offs to optimize time to market. Clearly communicating the product goals to all clients and teams.

Document business and functional requirements and work with the development team on the technical design requirements. Led the QA and User Acceptance testing (UAT). Analyzed all data by running custom SQL scripts

Directly manage the market risk and credit risk tools, which include VaR, Monte Carlo Simulations along with the MtM and PnL calculations.

Provide expertise in the central clearing model and the rules and regulations of the CFTC, FERC and REMIT as they apply to Energy trading specifically in natural gas and power.

BNY Mellon, New York, New York September 2013 – December 2015 Senior Business Analyst/PM

Led the design and development of a Derivative Regulation project that fully automated the reporting of all OTC derivative transactions to the SDR’s (DTCC,ICE,CME,REGIS-TR) to meet the regulations of Dodd-Frank, EMIR, REMIT, CSA, CCAR, and FINRA.

Worked with the business side and compliance to understand new business requirements and interpret the Dodd-Frank and EMIR rules and regulations to make sure the new work streams were fully in compliance with the laws.

Conducted workshops for stakeholders in each market to gather, analyze, document and validate requirements and produced BRD and FRD.

Promoted understanding of Central Clearing, Brokerage, and OTC Trading; dealing with FX, Fixed Income, ETF’s, Interest Rates, Commodities, and all Equity products.

Virtu Financial; New York, New York 2005 – 8/2013

Head of Commodity Trading

Headed team tasked with building an electronic trading platform and electronic trading strategies to transition the open outcry trading to electronic trading in all energy, metals and FX commodity markets.

Managed the design and development of the first electronic trading platform for the trading of commodities and FX products in all available worldwide markets. This platform handled the full cycle of a trade from the trade execution to the closing out of positions; this included trade reconciliation, accounting, clearing and risk management for all exchange traded products.

Education

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, B.A., Economics, Graduated with Honors

Technical Skills

MS Office Suite

FpML

MS PowerPoint

AGILE

MS Visio

SQL

Windows XP

MS Excel

VAR

SharePoint

Documenting Business Requirements

FIX Protocol

Swift Messaging

Process Flow Carts

JIRA

SPAN Methodology

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