Description

Project Description:

We are currently working with one of the top 4 Australian banks, who are currently using Calypso V16.1 as a front to back office system for Fixed income and IR derivatives business.

You will be involved in Migration of IR derivatives in to Calypso where your Calypso skills on Fixed Income and IRD will be used to assist in designing Trade Booking model, Settlement & Confirmations, P&L reports, Risk Reports. Etc. You will also be participated in Migration reconciliation, Integrating & reconciling the trades to the multiple downstream and upstream systems. This is the ideal role for Calypso resources to utilize their skills in a complex multi-year project and provide exposure to all the modules in calypso and also supporting trading / sales desks located mainly in New Zealand and across the globe Tokyo to New York
You will be a Business Analyst focusing on small projects, BAU support predominantly in Back Office, Accounting and coordinating with other BA when needed.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for analysing IRD products in legacy systems, mapping same to Calypso products and booking model design post migration.
• Be responsible for understanding the business needs, identifying business solutions and validating the pros and cons of technical solution options
• Key liaison with business users, acts as bridge between Business and IT, plan and prioritise BAU issue when they arise
• Coordinate with upstream and downstream systems in capturing system specific requirements, identifying gaps, field level mapping between systems
• Working with a Testing team to perform regression testing in regular release cycles and for major projects.
• Support testing team to update their test scenarios, date, tools when new products/functionalities introduced

Mandatory Skills Description:

5+ Years of relevant Calypso as a business analyst
• Strong knowledge / experience in analysing trade, static data using calypso reports, data base
• Good experience in configuring workflows, settlement methods, message setup
• User Groups / Access Rights, Static data setup, domain values and various filters
• Basic experience on Accounting rules, events, accounts setup
• Experienced in dealing with operations users, middle office(Collateral) and product control.
• Basic knowledge of pricing env, pricer config, market data setup for FI, IRD asset classes

Nice-to-Have Skills:

Any experience on other financial markets platforms (e.g Murex)
• Experience in working with SWIFT network, external settlement agents like Euroclear
• Understanding custom code changes and work with dev team for any changes
• Good knowledge in SQL, XSLT, Excel Macros and Dev Ops