Calypso Front Office BA

Project description

We are currently working with a well-known financial services organisation in Australia 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 an Pricing / Risk reports validation where your Calypso FO skills on Fixed Income and IRD will be used to assist in 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 across the globe Tokyo to New York

Responsibilities

You will be a FO Business Analyst focusing on IRD, Money Market, and Credit Derivatives Responsibilities:

Responsible for doing Requirement Analysis in Front Office space for various projects (Upgrade, IBOR, Regulatory, ..)

Be responsible for understanding the business needs, identifying business solutions, and validating the pros and cons of technical solution options

Key liaison with Front Office user base and primary interface between Business and IT.

Analyzing trade data and performing various life cycle actions to support downstream system requirements, identifying gaps, field level mapping between systems, and configuring reports in Calypso, supporting BAU team whenever needed.

Working with a Testing team to review test cases, coverage and investigate any issue they encounter.

Skills

Must have

8+ Years of relevant experience in IRD/Fixed Income products, Trade booking and Pricing

4+ Years of relevant Calypso (and/or other Trading System) Front Office or Market Risk experience

Good knowledge of Pricing / Risk analytics of IRD, Fixed Income

Experienced in dealing with Front Office, Risk stakeholders in both Markets and Treasury divisions

Strong hands-on knowledge of FO configuration around booking models, pricing env, pricer config, etc.

Good knowledge Rate Index, Curve setup, market data, market conventions like Day counts, roll conventions etc.

Excellent knowledge of pricing and pricer measures of IRS, Swaption, CDS..etc

Basic knowledge of PLVaR and Official PL reports.

Knowledge of organization setup and User Groups / Access Rights

Some knowledge of Reporting

Nice to have

Any experience on other financial markets platforms (e.g Murex)

An awareness of current and future regulatory programs impacting markets, e.g. MiFiD, Fundamental Review of the Trading Book

Configuring different risk analysis reports such as Falsh, Portfolio, Reset risk, etc.

Working with quants team on validation of Pricing, Valuation, etc.