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
Pay: From $120,000.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sydney NSW