Owen King

Current

Business Analyst, Associate at Markit

Past

Business Analyst, AVP at Citi

Education

Securities and Investment Institute
University of Southampton

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Industry

Capital Markets

Owen King’s Summary

Business analyst with strong technical skills with a particular focus on messaging and data within the financial services sector.

Extensive experience of requirements gathering from internal and external clients, aligning these appropriately with business strategy and communicating them unambiguously to developers, testers and industry fora.

Owen King’s Specialties:

XML, XML Schema, XSLT/XSL, requirements gathering, data modeling, functional specification authoring. Well-versed and comfortable working with a number of programming languages and relational databases.

Owen King’s Experience

Business Analyst, Associate

Markit

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

April 2008 — Present (9 months)

Business Analyst, Markit Wire "New Products" Group.

Jointly responsible for gathering requirements and specifying functionality to add support for OTC commodity derivatives to the Markit Wire legal confirmation platform. This includes:
- Running requirements-gathering working groups with industry participants
- Designing message models to represent commodity derivative confirmations (FpML)
- Writing functional requirements for developers and testers

Regular interaction with external clients, including sales visits. Instigate and facilitate agile development processes between BAs, developers and testing. Support and contribute to industry initiatives and standardisation (ISDA, FpML).
Business Analyst, AVP

Citi

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)

September 2004 — March 2008 (3 years 7 months)

(Technology Graduate Programme)

Project Lead, Corporate Actions Messaging and Data Projects

Designed, specified and led Citi's "golden copy" corporate actions data projects, including:
- Internal message models (XML, XML Schema)
- External vendor interfaces (SWIFT/ISO 15022 and proprietary formats)

Considerable experience of managing scope and globally distributed stakeholders. Fostered close-knit and constructive working practices within project team spread over multiple locations. Ensured compliance with Citi's policies and SDLC processes.

Owen King’s Education

Securities and Investment Institute

Investment Administration Qualification, Finance, 2004 — 2005

FSA Regulatory Environment
Introduction to Securities and Investment
Operational Risk
University of Southampton

MEng, Electronics, 2000 — 2004

1st Class Honours Degree