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Business Analyst - Trading & Asset Management Technology - London / Hybrid - 12-month FTC (Key skills: Business Analysis, Financial Services, Trading Systems, Financial Instruments (CDS, IRS, fixed income, equities, equity derivatives, ETD, Commodity, FX), Real-Time Messaging, VBA, Excel, XSLT, XML, Release Management, Live Trading Environments, SQL, Oracle, Stakeholder Management, Change Delivery) Are you a Business Analyst with strong experience in financial services and trading technology? Do you enjoy working in environments where real-time systems, operational resilience and regulatory precision are critical? This is a compelling opportunity to join a high-performing financial services technology team. Our client, a well-established asset management and investment services organisation, is seeking a Business Analyst to support the delivery of business-critical trading and reporting systems. Working closely with front-office, compliance and technology teams, you will help shape and deliver solutions that operate in live, highly regulated market environments. In this role, you will gather and document requirements, analyse system impacts and support end-to-end change delivery across trading and asset management platforms. A key focus will be the coordination, planning and management of application changes into live trading environments, ensuring releases are controlled, well-tested and aligned with operational and regulatory standards. You will also work with systems built on persistent and real-time messaging architectures, supporting the reliable flow of market data, trade events and downstream reporting. Strong SQL and Oracle skills will be required to analyse data, support controls and contribute to reporting and reconciliation processes. Experience with enterprise databases and financial data models is highly beneficial. The ideal candidate will bring proven Business Analys