Location: Open to both Hong Kong / Tokyo
Role Summary:
We are seeking a highly motivated and communicative Business Analyst to support our equity non-agency trading desks in Tokyo, including the risk, index arbitrage, and facilitation desks. This role is critical in bridging business needs with technology, risk, compliance, and operations, ensuring smooth, efficient, and compliant workflows across principal trading desks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary liaison between non-agency trading desks and supporting teams to gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
- Collaborate closely with traders to understand desk-specific workflows, pain points, and enhancement opportunities.
- Translate business needs into functional specifications for technology and operations teams.
- Monitor and support ongoing initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and timely delivery.
- Provide ad-hoc assistance with execution and booking processes when required, in coordination with BA/PM in Tokyo.
- Facilitate communication across cross-functional teams in Tokyo and other regions.
Required Qualifications:
- Proven experience in business analysis within financial services, preferably supporting trading desks.
- Strong understanding of non-agency trading products, workflows and regulations for risk trading, index arbitrage, ADR conversion, ETFs, Exchange for Physicals (EFPs) and facilitation.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with fluency in English; Japanese language skills are a strong plus.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
- Familiarity with execution and booking systems is beneficial but not essential.
Preferred Experience:
- Prior experience in a financial institution or trading firm.
- Experience with Fidessa Asia and Japan trading platforms.
- Knowledge of Japanese regulatory requirements and trading practices.
- Exposure to Japanese markets with experience in pan-Asia cash equities and Japanese futures and options trading a plus.
- Good PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Excel and Jira skills.
- Motivated self-starter.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
