Job Description

Job Title: Trade Finance SME / Business Analyst

Location: London/Northampton

We are looking for a Trade Finance SME / Business Analyst with strong expertise in secondary loan trading (SLT) and primary trading, and hands-on experience in Loan IQ trade booking and accounting flows. The candidate will play a key role in supporting front-to-back trade lifecycle processes, ensuring accurate booking, accounting, and operational alignment within Loan IQ.

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role

Trade Lifecycle Ownership

• End-to-end handling of trades:
  • Trade capture
  • Allocation
  • Settlement
  • Post-trade servicing
• SME-level understanding of:
  • Secondary Loan Trading (SLT)
  • Primary syndication trades

Loan IQ Expertise

• Hands-on trade booking in Loan IQ
• Activities include:
  • Trade ticket creation
  • Position updates
  • Settlement processing
• Debugging and resolving:
  • Booking errors
  • System mismatches
  • Processing failures

Accounting & GL Integration

• Ensure correct financial posting:
  • P&L entries
  • Accruals
  • Fees
• Validate system-generated accounting entries
• Work closely with Finance for:
  • GL mapping
  • Reconciliation
  • Regulatory compliance

Business Analysis Responsibilities

• Gather and document business requirements
• Convert trading requirements into:
  • Functional specs for Loan IQ
• Perform:
  • Gap analysis (Current vs Target state)
  • Process documentation

Testing & Validation

• Participate in:
  • SIT (System Integration Testing)
  • UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
• Create test scenarios for:
  • Trade booking
  • Settlements
  • Accounting validation
• Ensure data integrity & reconciliation

Stakeholder Management

Work closely with:

• Front Office (Traders)
• Operations teams
• Finance
• Technology teams

Act as a bridge between business and IT.

Process Improvement

• Identify automation opportunities
• Improve:
  • Efficiency
  • Accuracy
  • Turnaround time
  • Controls in trade processing

Your Job

Domain Skills

• Loan trading (Primary + Secondary)
• Trade lifecycle management
• Loan IQ system expertise
• Trade accounting & GL knowledge

Functional Skills

• Business analysis
• Requirements gathering
• Gap analysis
• Functional documentation

Technical/Operational Skills

• Trade booking workflows
• Settlement processing
• Reconciliation
• Testing (SIT/UAT)

Soft Skills

• Analytical thinking
• Problem solving
• Stakeholder communication

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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