Business Analyst (Calypso)

Key Responsibilities

This list is indicative and is not intended to be exhaustive. The business analyst's responsibilities are therefore not limited to the below but can include:

• Settlements Expert: Being a go-to person for all back office questions and problems.
• Providing Support: Provide ongoing/ad-hoc IT Systems & Business Process support to all internal stakeholders (as required). To have a close handle on operational issues, quickly assess the business impact, and provide responsive operational support as necessary.
• Ownership: The ability to own and be responsible for all of the work you've implemented. To self-manage, plan and prioritise your work effectively.
• Understanding Requirements: Work with business, other SMEs and change team to understand business requirements and identify/comprehend all relevant issues in tackling those.
• Building Solutions: Design robust and scalable software solutions for new business requirements driving automation wherever possible. Have a clear vision of overall design from an early stage in order to guide the development.
• Driving Automation: Drive automation wherever it's possible and makes sense from a cost-benefit perspective.
• Developing Relationships: Develop, manage and maintain strong relationships with all stakeholders
• Delivering Projects: Work in partnership with the projects office. This may involve providing the required documentation, providing business cases, project planning, stakeholder management and communications

Technical Knowledge and Experience

• 4 years or more experience in similar roles.
• Recent previous experience in a role which included Production Support is a must.
• Calypso v14 or later, essentially on all areas of Back Office, Reporting, and Calypso fundamentals.
• Business analysis skills including strong process experience and understanding of business analysis methodologies.
• Ability to interpret and implement business requirements in Calypso.
• Back Office knowledge and experience of solving problems specific to transfers, netting, settlement instructions, the settlement process, messaging (SWIFT and PDF), message setup, nostro management, cash positions etc.
• Understanding of the Task Station and how this may be used in a corporate and interbank capacity.
• Knowledge of SWIFT, experience in implementing requirements based on both custom requests and SWIFT standards changes, and troubleshooting errors.
• Experience of Collateral Management and Securities Settlement is not a mandatory requirement but a beneficial added extra.
• Banking and trading product knowledge.
• Analytical, with the ability to arrive at solutions that fit current or future business processes.
• Effective writing and verbal communication to deliver required documentation and understanding of business requirements.