Senior Business Analyst (Calypso)

Job Description:

Build & change management:

• Analyze enhancement requests for FX, money market and treasury business.
• Propose solutions in collaboration with architects, technical teams and the business teams.
• Specifications, workload estimates, planning, test scenarios, release documentation.
• Coordinate user acceptance tests.
• Monthly releases, following the team’s milestones for analysis, coding and testing.
• Support the release roadmap in production.

Incidents and Requests management (business users and other IT teams):

• Application support, level 3 (BA expert).
• Troubleshoot and fix issues/bugs.

Continuous improvement:

• Improve operational processes.
• Coach more junior team members as required.

Requirements:

Education Requirements :

• Master’s degree in relevant specialties (IT, finance).
• Minimum 8 years working experience in relevant roles.

Qualifications and Profile:

• Minimum 6 years’ experience as a Calypso business analyst on Calypso back office.
• Experience on Calypso versions v8 to v18.
• In depth knowledge of Static Data, Workflows, ScheduledTask, Confirmations, Settlements, Messages / Swift messages, Positions, Accounting, Corporate action, Filters, Reporting Framework, and Reconciliation features.
• Understanding of financial assets (FX, Money market...) and trade lifecycle.
• Experience with regulatory reporting.
• Experience in interfacing Calypso with external systems.
• Hands-on experience in implementation projects.
• AGILE track record.
• Experience in implementing NR scenarios.
• Willing to do L3 Support if required.
• Willing to work on weekend operations for implementation weekend when required.
• Good knowledge Microsoft Office (E.g. Excel / Powerpoint), incident management (E.g. Service Now) and other reporting tools
• Strong analytical or troubleshooting skills
• Good knowledge in Java, Linux/Unix, Database (E.g. Sybase, Oracle), PL/SQL, Middleware (E.g. MQ Series), File Transfer (E.g. CFT) and batch/Job Scheduling (Control-M).

Other Professional Skills and Mind-set:

• General banking and finance understanding and knowledge
• Understanding of trade life cycle, financial products (Treasury, FX, Bonds, MM, Credit…)
• Exposure to Capital Market FO/BO system (E.g. Calypso, Kondor+, Summit, Murex…)
• Autonomy to include implicit deliverables in assignment based on best practices
• Strong appetite to learn both functional and technical new domain
• Appetite to participate to technical market trends and communities
• Careful observance of standards and processes
• Strong sense of confidentiality
• The candidate should have analytical and problem-solving skills, a pro-active mind-set in security, proven ability to work individually under pressure. Team player with good interpersonal skills.
  Very good communication skills and keen to work with business users.