Technical Business Analyst

Company Information

Paddy Power is a global Plc, headquartered in Ireland, with 2,400 employees worldwide. The amount staked by customers in 2010 was almost €4 billion. It is one of the fastest growing, innovative and dynamic businesses in the betting and gaming sector. It has seen record operating profit in 2010, following year on year growth of around 30% for each of the past ten years. It is an ambitious, cash rich company that recognises technology as critical to further accelerating its growth.

Opportunity

The Trading Room within Paddy Power is industry leading. Using a combination of talented people, cutting edge bespoke software and unparalleled quantitative trading techniques the company is able to offer its B2C and B2B customers an unequalled breadth of pricing, product and risk management systems 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The Trading Room, in its provision of live price feeds and risk management expertise to some of the largest gaming operators in the world, relies heavily on expert sports and racing traders as well as the ability to harness high volumes of data using real-time trading applications.

It is this use of innovative technology, in conjunction with industry expertise and sophisticated analytics, that enables the Paddy Power traders to successfully make the mission critical decisions necessary in a high-pressure trading environment.
As part of the Quantitative Analysis team based in the Trading Room in Dublin this individual will have the opportunity to fill a unique role which demands a balance of key skills. They will have a central involvement in delivering business critical projects. This will involve working intently with Traders, Risk Managers and Sports Modellers to gather and clearly define requirements for real time trading and risk systems

Responsibilities

• Engaging with Key Stakeholders, gathering business requirements while providing detailed solutions and communicating it to the relevant individuals

• Working closely with IT development to ensure that your requirements are clearly documented, prioritised, signed-off and successfully delivered

• Managing change throughout the project lifecycle by maintaining on-going communication with all stakeholders

• Completing user acceptance testing to ensure quality

• Implementing operational process changes for the roll-out of new developments

Experience Required

• 4+ years commercial experience in a business analyst role using a structured development lifecycle methodology, e.g. Agile

• Proven experience in detailed business interaction, gathering complex requirements, and ensuring accurate representation and implementation

• Exceptional verbal, written and communication skills

• Track record as a key member of project teams that have delivered large scale, complex, high volume business critical systems

• Degree educated in a technical discipline or equivalent qualification

• Obsession with sports and knowledge of gaming industry a significant plus

We offer a highly attractive benefits package, commensurate with a leading Plc, including; salary, bonus, pension, healthcare and life cover.

The Group focuses heavily on employee communication, development and retention. Our people are pivotal to everything we do and we are fortunate to have such a range of talented people that epitomise our devotion to customer service, our dedication to product excellence and our brand values of ‘fun, fair and friendly’.

Please note that Paddy Power is now based in Belfield Office Park, Clonskeagh, Dublin 4.

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