Business Analyst
Skills
About the role
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Calypso Business Analyst to support critical trading and post-trade platforms within a complex financial markets technology environment. The successful candidate will work across Calypso Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office modules, supporting the end-to-end trade lifecycle for multiple asset classes including Rates, FX, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Repos.
This role requires strong business analysis expertise, capital markets knowledge, and hands-on experience with the Calypso Trading & Risk Management Platform. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, architects, developers, and vendors to deliver scalable, resilient solutions while ensuring regulatory compliance and operational stability.
Key Responsibilities
Business Analysis & Requirements Management
Act as a hands-on Business Analyst across Calypso Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office modules.
Elicit, analyse, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
Work closely with business users to understand trade capture, risk, valuation, collateral management, clearing, settlement, and confirmation workflows.
Translate business requirements into functional specifications, configuration requirements, and system solutions.
Perform impact assessments for change requests, regulatory initiatives, and platform upgrades.
Calypso Platform Support
Support the end-to-end trade lifecycle from execution through confirmation and settlement.
Work with Calypso workflows, trade attributes, pricing components, reference data, and business configurations.
Partner with architects and developers to ensure alignment with Calypso best practices and platform capabilities.
Support platform enhancements, upgrades, production support, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Support asset classes including Rates, FX, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Repos.
Analyse and support post-trade functions including clearing, settlements, confirmations, margining, reconciliations, and reporting.
Ensure appropriate controls and lifecycle processing are maintained across products and workflows.
Support regulatory requirements, operational resilience, and risk management initiatives.
Testing & Delivery Support
Participate in functional testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect triage, and solution validation.
Validate business workflows and test scenarios, including exposure to Calypso Automated Testing Tool (CATT).
Collaborate with development teams to ensure successful delivery of business requirements.
Contribute to Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
Stakeholder Management
Build strong relationships with business users, technology teams, vendors, and external stakeholders.
Communicate complex business and technical concepts effectively across all levels of the organization.
Provide clear documentation, analysis, and recommendations to support decision-making.
Required Skills & Experience Calypso Expertise
Strong hands-on experience with the Calypso Trading & Risk Management Platform.
Experience across:
Front Office (Trade Capture, Pricing)
Middle Office (Risk, Valuation, Collateral Management)
Back Office (Confirmations, Settlement, Accounting Integration)
Knowledge of Calypso configuration, workflows, pricing, and reference data management.
Exposure to Calypso Automated Testing Tool (CATT) is highly desirable.
Strong understanding of the end-to-end trade lifecycle.
Experience with Rates, FX, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Repo products.
Knowledge of post-trade processing including settlements, clearing, reconciliations, and margining.
Understanding of financial markets regulations, trade reporting, risk controls, and operational resilience requirements.
Business Analysis & Tools
Strong requirements gathering, process analysis, and documentation skills.
Experience with:
JIRA
Azure DevOps
Confluence
SharePoint
Visio or process modelling tools
Experience supporting UAT and business validation activities.
Technical Skills
Understanding of system integrations, interfaces, and message flows.
Familiarity with market data feeds, reference data, and downstream platforms.
Basic SQL knowledge for data validation and analysis is preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
Professional Business Analysis certifications are advantageous.
Experience within investment banking, capital markets, or financial services organizations.
Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
Pay: From $130,000.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sydney NSW
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