Calypso Business Analyst - Back Office

Project description

Our Client is the corporate and investment banking arm of a Group, world’s 10th largest bank by total assets. Singapore center is the 2nd largest IT setup for Group's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by: - Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems - Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects. - Providing premium In-house Banking applications, This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market. We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges. This role aims to develop on the Calypso back-office package, in project mode as well as maintenance, and to support the “run the bank” function. It requires a deep understanding of the nature of business operations, timing of activities & data flowing through internal and external systems. The build and support team continuously works with business users, infrastructure engineers and system managers.

Responsibilities

• Build & change management: * Analyse enhancement requests for the repo business and new products. * Propose solutions in collaboration with Architects. * Handle specifications, workload estimates, planning, test scenarios, and release documentation. * Coordinate user acceptance tests. * Manage monthly releases following team milestones for analysis, coding, and testing. * Support the release roadmap in production. Incidents and Requests management (business users and other IT teams): * Provide Level 3 (expert) application support. * Troubleshoot and fix issues and bugs. Continuous improvement: * Improve operational processes. * Coach more junior team members as required.

SKILLS

Must have

• * Master or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Programming & Systems Analysis/ Science (Computer Studies) faculties. * Minimum 5 years of experience as a Calypso business analyst on Calypso back office. * Experience on Calypso versions v14 to v17. * In depth knowledge of Static Data, Workflows, ScheduledTask, Confirmations, Settlements, Messages / Swift messages, Positions, Accounting, Corporate action, Filters, Reporting Framwork, Reconciliation features. * Understanding of financial assets (repos, bonds, SLB, issuances) and trade lifecycle. * Experience in interfacing Calypso with external systems. * Hands-on experience in implementation projects. * Willing to do L3 Support if required. * Willing to do on-call rotation with team mates to cover night and week-end support. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams. * Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. * Ability to work under pressure. * Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management. * Experience with regulatory reporting HRF, NORIA, MMSR. * AGILE track record. * Experience in implementing NR scenarios. * Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player.

Nice to have

* Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities. * Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies. * Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’ skills.