LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST

Key Responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities ? Calypso Business Analyst

• Act as a hands-on Business Analyst across Calypso Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office modules,supporting the end-to-end trade lifecycle
• Elicit, analyse, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements for trading and post-trade processes
• Work closely with business users to understand trade capture, risk, valuation, collateral management, clearing, settlement, and confirmations workflows
• Translate business requirements into Calypso functional specifications, configuration requirements, and system behaviour
• Support asset classes including Rates, FX, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Repos, ensuring correct lifecycle processing and controls
• Analyse and support post-trade and regulatory processes, including confirmations, settlements, margining, reconciliations, and reporting
• Partner with architects and developers to ensure solutions align with Calypso architecture, standard product capabilities, and best practices
• Support calypso configuration and customization, including workflows, trade attributes, pricing components, and reference data
• Perform impact analysis for change requests, regulatory updates, and product upgrades
• Support testing activities, including functional testing, UAT support, test scenarios validation if needed, and defect triage
• Ensure solutions meet regulatory, risk, operational resilience, and audit requirements
• Contribute to Agile delivery ceremonies and continuous improvement initiatives

Tools, Platforms & Skills Required

Primary Platform

• Calypso Trading & Risk Management Platform
  • Front Office (Trade Capture, Pricing)
  • Middle Office (Risk, Valuation, Collateral Management)
  • Back Office (Confirmations, Settlement, Accounting integration)

�Exposure to Calypso Automated Testing Tool (CATT) for understanding automated functional test scenarios, validating business workflows, and supporting UAT/test execution activities.

Capital Markets & Domain Knowledge

• Trade lifecycle knowledge across execution ? confirmation ? settlement
• Asset classes: Rates, FX, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Repos
• Post-trade processes: clearing, margining, settlements, reconciliations
• Regulatory awareness (e.g., trade reporting, risk controls, operational resilience)

Business Analysis & Documentation Tools

• Requirements documentation tools (e.g., Confluence, SharePoint)
• Agile tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Azure DevOps)
• Process modelling (e.g., Visio, workflow diagrams)

Testing & Support

• Test cases validation and UAT support

Technical & Integration Awareness

• Understanding of system integrations, interfaces, and message flows
• Familiarity with market data feeds, reference data, and downstream systems
• Basic understanding of SQL for data analysis and validation (optional but preferred)

Ways of Working

• Experience working in Agile / Scrum delivery environments
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to operate effectively in complex, regulated financial services environments