Calypso Back Office BA

We've been engaged by an Australian financial institution to support their Calypso asset within wide range of projects like Product & Pricing, Risk & Regulatory, Collateral Management, Version upgrades etc. We are looking for multiple people across business analysis, development, and QA as part of this large-scale engagement.

This role requires an experienced Calypso business analyst with focus on all interfaces across capital markets area. Your main contribution will be to deliver Calypso offering in the Asia Pacific region covering mainly Backoffice functionality related to Post trade, FX, FXD and IRD products. This role requires working as part of a scrum team with multiple BA, Dev and QA within a projects like Calypso upgrade or within a small or medium BAU changes.

This will be a high-profile engagement with a view to grow our footprint with this client.

Responsibilities

• Successful candidate will work on both technical and functional aspects of various Calypso modules like Post trade, FX, FXD and IRD
• Configuration, integration & testing of all major or minor changes within calypso back office and trade interfaces like markitwire
• Configuration of Back office workstation reports
• Working within projects like Calypso upgrades, Introducing new modules / products and migration from legacy systems
• The role will be predominantly at client location and activities include but not limited to Running user workshops to understand and draw up business processes, understanding current legacy implementations, and capturing functional and technical business requirements
• Work closely with project teams, provide analysis, support, and assist with software releases and rollouts in the production environment according to Change Management best practices
• Develop an overall understanding of the business operating environment, business goals and objectives for the prevailing period
• Demonstrate professional and ethical behavior in your actions by ensuring compliance with external legislation, bank standards and internal operating policies and procedures

Skills

• 5+ years of experience as Calypso Backoffice (Post-trade) BA including requirements gathering and solution design
• 5+ years of experience in Calypso configuration
• Strong exposure to capital markets asset classes and functionality, especially FX, FXD and BackOffice processing (especially Post Trade)
• Experience preparing and running workshops
• Experienced in SQL
• Advanced problem solving and solutioning skills

Nice to have

• Exposure to DevOps and CI/CD practices including Cloud
• Experience on Fixed Income asset class
• Experience in other capital market platforms like Murex etc.
• FRM, CFA or CQF certified
• Experience with Calypso versions from 13 and above