Calypso Business Analyst

Luxoft; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in corporate and investment banking is looking for an experienced Calypso business analyst in Singapore. The role involves enhancing back office operations for the FX IT division, requiring extensive knowledge in financial assets and regulatory reporting. This position offers opportunities to contribute to significant technological projects while supporting operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years work experience, with 5+ years in Calypso back office.
• Experience with Calypso versions v14 to v17 and financial asset knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Analyse enhancement requests for the repo business and propose solutions.
• Coordinate user acceptance tests and support release management.
• Provide level 3 application support and improve operational processes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication

Project management

Agile methodology

Education

Master's degree in IT or finance

Job description

Project description

Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world's 12th largest bank by total assets.
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.

The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market IT applications (in-house and package) used worldwide, covering Front Office (Murex, Apex, Orchestrade...), Back Office (Summit, Calypso...), Market data referential (Asset Control..), Market Risk (in-house application on big data technologies).

The FX IT division works across the full value chain to sustain business activity and enable its acceleration (thru integration of new financial products, optimizing and automating front to back business processes).

This specific role aims to work on the Calypso back office package for our FX IT division, 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.

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 (expert).

Troubleshoot and fix issues/bugs.

Continuous improvement

Improve operational processes.

Coach more junior team members as required.

Skills

Must have

Master's degree in relevant specialties (IT, finance).

8+ years of total working experience.

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 with regulatory reporting HRF, NORIA, MMSR.

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.

Nice to have

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior