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Archax

Archax

IT, Sales & Business Development
London, UK
Posted on Sep 16, 2025

Job Specification -- Business Analyst

About us
Montis Group is creating a new breed of authorised and fully regulated post-trade utilities that enable financial institutions and investors to process digital securities globally, alongside traditional securities – delivering the market infrastructure required for digital securities to fulfil their true potential. The new service includes the issuance of new digital and conventional securities, registration of legal ownership, support the transfer of securities ensuring settlement finality and the management of additional post trade activities (e.g. interest payments) within the Central Securities Depository (CSD).
Montis is a subsidiary of Archax Holdings, which includes the first ever digital securities exchange (MTF), regulated by the FCA in London, alongside, its FCA brokerage, custody, and crypto-asset permissions.
The role
We are looking for an enthusiastic Business Analyst to join our start-up group to help identify the business requirements and with delivering the technology platform for new digital Central Security Depositories (CSDs). Delivering solutions into the UK and Luxembourg with a view to expand product, functionality and jurisdiction.
The start-up nature of the role would suit a candidate willing to be adaptive and agile, interested in the impact of their work and able to take responsibility for delivering an outcome rather than ‘ticking the box’.
The role will embrace a wide remit and will provide the opportunity to learn and experience additional, complimentary skills in a dynamic, vibrant team.
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

Engagement with market participants (individually or collectively) and technology vendors

Understanding and documenting structured business requirements, operational workflows and technical procedures

Securing business and technology sign off for requirements

Reviewing and agreeing requirements with market participants and technology vendors

Monitor and manage change priorities along with the development and implementation schedule.

Creating test scenarios, test cases and test data to support functional testing in conjunction with the test analyst.

Knowledge and Experience Required:

A minimum of 3 years’ experience working as a business or test analyst

Good education or relevant industry equivalent

Strong understanding of capital markets, preferably in CSDs or custodian banks

Understand the transaction life cycle of securities from trading to settlement

Knowledge of blockchain technologies an advantage

Ability to review and respond to legal and regulatory documentation

Good written English and ability to review and create policies, processes, and procedures

Key Attributes

Problem solving and project experience.

Team player with excellent people skills across all levels of the business

Good fit with corporate values

Solves complex problems with broad perspective (individually or collaboratively)

Ability to work under pressure and remain accountable

Ability to balance and achieve a combination of short and long-term goals

Strong analytical skills inc. problem solving and solution-orientated thinking

Able to use initiative, work unsupervised and comfortable taking responsibility

Energetic personality with the drive to effect change

We offer

Competitive rates of pay

Be a part of an exciting, fast-growing, and future thinking industry

An opportunity to get involved at the ground-level in building emerging new CSDs, focused on settling natively digital and non-native securities

A supportive and collaborative working environment

Opportunity to attend events and represent the company

Encouraged and supported in developing digital securities knowledge

25 days holiday, raising up to 30 days with years of service

Career opportunities to grow and scale with a growing company

Our principles:

Teamwork – Colleagues, customers and partners working in balance.

Humility - check our egos at the door, no pretence for roles or titles.

Responsibility – accountable for our actions and delivery.

Innovation – Always forward thinking, strive to create a better way, every day.

Valued – Support and reward the journey of our people.

Expertise – Seek to grow knowledge in our market.

Our Values:

Integrity and Ethics

Openness and Transparency

Respect and Fair Conduct

Accountable with Full Disclosure

Authentic with Client Focus

Operationally Resilient and Caring

Montis is an equal opportunities employer, placing high value on diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on any attribute.
If you are interested in applying for this role, please send your cv together with a covering letter explaining why you think you are a match for the role.

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